African Feminist Girlhood Studies and Development - 9783031915604

African Feminist Girlhood Studies and DevelopmentAuthor(s): Catherine Cymone Fourshey, Marla Jaksch, Relebohile Moletsane\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Springer International Publishing AG, Switzerland\nImprint: Palgrave Macmillan\nISBN-13: 9783031915604, 978-3031915604\nSynopsis\nThis project draws on African feminisms to propose major questions about the agency of girls. The central research questions of the book are: what is the history of girlhood on the ground invarious regions ofAfrica? In African contexts, how are humanistic approaches helpingsocial scientists and development practitionersto unravel some of the seemingly unsolvable challenges? And, finally, in what ways might development projects defined and shaped by adolescent African girls lead us to better understandings ofchallenges they faceandbeneficial as well as realisticsolutions and critical responses to poverty, development, and inequality? Theauthorsexpandthe existing conversation by drawing upon epistemological f.