Gendered African Perspective on Christian Social Ethics - Empowering Working Women in Cameroon

Combining Catholic social teaching, feminist and African liberation theology, and the social sciences, Joseph Loïc Mben, SJ, develops a contextual gendered African Christian social ethic that addresses the oppression and marginalization of working women in Sub-Saharan Africa. He focuses primarily on African women from working and poor classes living in either urban or rural settings, particularly in Cameroon, and thus shows the necessity of inflecting Catholic social teaching along the differential of gender.

List of contents

Part 1: Catholic Social Teaching (CST) and the Empowerment of the (Female) Worker
1.Overview of Catholic Social Teaching
2.Populorum Progressio, Laborem Exercens, and the Evolution of Catholic Social Teaching
3.African Bishops on Workers' Empowerment
4.Evaluation of Catholic Social Teaching on Workers' Empowerment
Conclusion to Part 1
Part 2: The Reality of Women's Work in Cameroon
5.Feminist Criticism of Neoclassical Economics
6.General Characteristics of Women's Work
7.The Reality of Women's Work in Cameroon
Conclusion to Part 2
Part 3: Elements of a Gendered African Social Ethics on Labor
8.African Liberation Theology and Women's Work
9.Key Elements of a Gendered African Social Ethics
Conclusion to Part 3
Part 4: Empowering Working Women: Concepts and Practices
10.On Empowerment
11.Looking at Concrete Practices
Conclusion to Part 4

About the author

By Joseph Loïc Mben, S.J.

Summary

In this book, Joseph Loïc Mben develops an African Christian social ethic that empowers and addresses the needs of poor and working-class African women.

Product details

• Authors: S.j. Loic Mben, S. J. Joseph Loïc Mben, S.J. Loïc Mben, Loïc Mben S. J. Joseph
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2021
• EAN: 9781978707412
• ISBN: 978-1-978707-41-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, RELIGION / Ethics, Religious ethics, Gender studies, gender groups, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / African Studies