TY - BOOK AU - Schlyter,Ann AU - Chipeta,Lucy ED - Research Conference on "Body Politics and Gender Justice" TI - Body politics and women citizens: African experiences T2 - Sida studies SN - 9789158641006 (pbk.) AV - HQ1236.5.A35 B6 2009 PY - 2009/// CY - Stockholm PB - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency KW - Women's rights KW - Africa KW - Women KW - Social conditions KW - Employment KW - Sex role KW - Political aspects N1 - "This volume is based on papers originally presented at the research conference "Body Politics and Gender Justice", held in Cape Town in February 2009."; Includes bibliographical references; Introduction / Ann Schlyter --Contesting illegality: women in the informal copper business on the Zambian copperbelt / Patience Mususa -- Women coping with change: urban poverty and everyday politics in northern Mozambique / Margareta Espling -- Bodies at work in Volvo plants in Sweden and South Africa / Paula Mählck -- Polygamous families in urban Malawi: sharing housing and resources / Lucy Kondwani Chipeta -- Essential motherhood: implications for law and population policy / Mulela Margaret Munalula -- Teenage pregnancy and HIV in South Africa / Nolwazi Mkhwanazi -- From pain to virtue: clitoridectomy and other ordeals in the creation of a female person / Lisen Dellenborg -- Bearing the pain: changing views of the meaning and morality of suffering / Maria Malmström -- Women in the back seat in Malian citizenship / Assitan Diallo -- Gendered spectacle: new terrains of struggle in South Africa / Desiree Lewis -- Postscript: challenges to rights-based approaches in support of women citizens / Ann Schlyter ER -