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Women and the Gender Motif in the African Family. A Critical Reading from African Theology and John Paul II’s Theology of the Body in the Context of Southern Nigeria

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African societies in general and African Christianity in particular struggle with the issue of gender and how to achieve more egalitarian and just relations between women and men both in the public and private sphere. The hypothesis of this dissertation is that conceptual frameworks like the ones suggested by African (feminist) theologians on the one side and John Paul II on the other are too abstract and a-contextual as to tie in with the grass root experience of African women and men. This means that ultimately such gender ideologies are not found helpful to redeem unjust gender relations. What is to be looked for instead is a contextualized approach to gender issues which on the one side takes into consideration the concrete and lived experiences of couples rooted in African anthropology and culture and on the other side activates and operationalizes the critical potential of the above mentioned theoretical frameworks. For that purpose the study engages in a case study in which the practice and perception of gender (relations) is investigated by means of qualitative interviews with Catholic couples in the Catholic Archdiocese of Benin City in South Nigeria.
Jaar van publicatie:2018
Toegankelijkheid:Open