A Gendered African Perspective on Christian Social Ethics

Empowering Working Women in Cameroon

S.J. Loïc Mben Joseph (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2021
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic (Verlag)
978-1-9787-0741-2 (ISBN)

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In this book, Joseph Loïc Mben develops an African Christian social ethic that empowers and addresses the needs of poor and working-class African women.

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.

Joseph Loïc Mben is a Jesuit priest from Cameroon. He teaches bioethics and social ethics at the Jesuit Institute of Theology in Abidjan (Cote d’Ivoire).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	10.05.2021
Zusatzinfo	1 BW Illustrations, 2 Tables
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 231 mm
Gewicht	621 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-9787-0741-X / 197870741X
ISBN-13	978-1-9787-0741-2 / 9781978707412
Zustand	Neuware