4 Beyond the Three Food Groups: Nutrition Education for Women in Africa

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables vii
4. Foreword ix
5. Preface xiii
6. 1 Gender and Educational Research, Policy, and Practice in Sub-Saharan Africa: Theoretical and Empirical Problems and Prospects 1
7. 2 Agents in Women's Education: Some Trends in the African Context 25
8. PART 1 Nonformal Education
9. 3 Rites and Reason: Precolonial Education and Its Relevance to the Current Production and Transmission of Knowledge 49
10. 4 Beyond the Three Food Groups: Nutrition Education for Women in Africa 73
11. 5 Women and Nonformal Education in West Africa: Policy and Practice 83
12. PART 2 Formal Education
13. 6 Inside Classrooms in Guinea: Girls' Experiences 99
14. 7 Gender and Classroom Interactions in Liberia 131
15. 8 Gender and Formal Education in Africa: An Exploration of the Opportunity Structure at the Secondary and Tertiary Levels 157
16. 9 "Education Is My Husband": Marriage, Gender, and Reproduction in Northern Tanzania 185
17. 10 Single-Sex Schooling and Its Effects on Nigerian Adolescents 201
18. PART 3 Politics, Economics, and Education
19. 11 Gender and Education in Rural South Africa 229
20. 12 The Status of Women in Southern Nigeria: Is Education a Help or a Hindrance? 247
21. 13 Searching for Utopia: The Politics of Gender and Education in Tanzania 277
22. PART 4 Epilogue
23. 14 Using the Past to Fashion an Expanding Future 299
24. The Contributors 312
25. Index 316
26. About the Book 320