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

Loïc Mben, S.J., Joseph

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic（2021/03発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 296 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781978707412
• DDC分類 261.1082096

Full Description

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 in urban or rural settings, particularly in Cameroon, and thus shows the necessity of inflecting Catholic Social Teaching along the differential of gender.

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