1. EFFECTIVE INVOLVEMENT OF WOMEN IN GOVERNANCE AS A PANACEA TO NIGERIA SOCIO-POLITICAL AND ECONOMIC PROBLEMS
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Gender incongruity in politics is a worldwide phenomenon, literature abounds showing that the level of women’s participation at the highest level of political activity accounts for their invisibility in the top positions of...
2. A STUDY ON AUDIENCE PERCEPTION OF THE MEDIA IN MOBILIZING WOMEN FOR POLITICAL PARTICIPATION
Background to the Study
Purdar is a very harsh kind of rejection of women's participation rights. Women encounter a variety of impediments to full involvement in different parts of social life in Nigeria, owing to established cultural beliefs that d...
3. INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN NIGERIAN MOTHER-IN-AW AND THEIR DAUGHTERS-IN-LAW: PRE-MARITAL AND FAMILY COUNSELLING IMPLICATIONS
Abstract:- Policies that discourage violence against women and girls abound in Nigeria but have not been effectively implemented. Recorded history, recent events and happenings have shown that Nigerians still experience the occurrence of the most prevalent y...
4. AN EVALUATION OF ELECTORAL VIOLENCE IN NIGERIA: THE CASE OF ANAMBRA STATE GUBERNATORIAL ELECTIONS
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The unbridled quest for power by man in his ever unstoppable search for relevance and advantage has indeed, generated so much tensions and hostilities. Thus, for most developing democracies of the Third World especially, Nigeria,...
5. GENDER AND POLITICAL PARTICIPATION IN RIVERS STATE, THE FOURTH REPUBLIC EXPERIENCE(A CASE STUDY OF THE 2011 GENERAL ELECTIONS
Background of the Study
The principles of freedom, fairness, and equality in treatment of all people, including men and women, on an equal basis, by the society, are the cornerstones of democratic governance (Nwabueze, 1993:2). (Nwabueze, 1993:2)....
6. THE ROLE OF FEMALE JOURNALISTS ON NIGERIAN BROADCAST MEDIA
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The media has an important part to play in the man for gender transition and in narrowing the social woman gap that exists between women and men. Communication studies, especially of the radical critical inclination, have...
7. LANGUAGE IN FEMINIST LITERATURE: A STUDY OF MARIAMA BA’S SO LONG A LETTER
ABSTRACT
The study attempts to investigate some aspects of Language In Feminist Literature: a Study Of Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter. The main concern is to identify how Mariama Ba uses language to portray feminism - the reaction...
8. PERCEPTION OF POVERTY BY WOMEN AND MEN AND THEIR COPING STRATEGIES
ABSTRACT
Gender and perception of poverty in Surulere Local Government Area of Lagos State is the focus of this study. The main objectives of the study were to examine the way men and women perceive poverty and to understand the gender-based differences...
9. ABUSE OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS: AN APPRAISAL OF CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE’S PURPLE HIBISCUS AND UNIGWE’S
Background of the study
The essayists and scholars have called the abuse of children’s rights a troubled childhood. Edgar Fred Nabutanyi, in his thesis titled “Representations of troubled childhood in an African fiction selected after 1990”, defines di...
10. WOMEN’S RIGHTS IN AFRICAN CONSTITUTIONS: A DESIDERATUM OR A MERE FEMINIST UTOPIAN AGENDA?
Background of the Study
It would appear correct to say that the subject of women’s rights is one of the most contentious and seemingly nebulous aspects of human rights j...
11. FAMILY AND SOCIETY: A CASE STUDY OF THINGS FALL APART AND PURPLE HIBISCUS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
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Many societies have beliefs rooted deep in ancient religion. Some beliefs include polygamy, polytheism, and patriarchy, or rule by men. One such culture is that of Ach...
12. A Feminist Perspective on the Dilemma of the Girl Child in African Culture
Abstract
This research examines the dilemma of the girl child in African culture and the fundamental problems confronting her existential being. It explores the unfair treatment the girl-child receives in a male chauvinistic and particular society like Afri...
13. FEMINISM USING BUCHI EMECHETA’S ‘THE JOYS OF MOTHERHOOD’ AND ZAYNAB ALIKALI’S ‘THE STILL BORN’
The Purpose Of The Study
This work examines the concept of feminism and various roles women play in the society through the work of both gender writers.
It also examines the response of the females to the male dominated society and bring out the feminist perspective in the wor...
14. A CRITICAL ANALYSIS ON THE IMPACT OF THE CONCEPT OF IJBAR ON THE PRACTICE OF CHILD MARRIAGE UNDER ISLAMIC LAW
ABSTRACT
This study critically analyzes the impact of the concept of ijbar on the practice of child marriage under Islamic law. While child marriage is widely criticized by the feminists on the basis of human rights, its practice is nevertheless defended on the basis of Islamic law and...
15. LANGUAGE OF GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN AFRICAN LITERARY WORKS (A STUDY OF PURPLE HIBISCUS AND YELLOW-YELLOW)
ABSTRACT
This project basically examine the language of gender discrimination in African literary works with special reference to PURPLE HIBISCUS and YELLOW-YELLOW. In the past few years, women folk have been rendered invisible or stereotyped by their male c...
16. Feminist aesthetic in zaynab alkali’s the stillborn and the virtuous woman
Abstract
The study has examined the extent of the marginalization of the African woman in a sexist society which relegates womanhood to gender roles. It has discovered, for instance that the persistent inequality between men and women in the Nigeria society which Alkali...
17. AN APPRAISAL OF THE IMPACT OF GENDER EQUALITY ON WOMEN’S RIGHT TO WORK OUTSIDE MATRIMONIAL HOME IN ISLAMIC LAW
ABSTRACT
This study entitled: “An Appraisal of the Impact of Gender Equality on Women’s Rights to Work in Islamic Law” has examined the Islamic perspective on gender equality and it is argued that Islamic law has elevated women and gives them a very dignified position,...
18. FEMINIST AESTHETICS IN OLA ROTIMI’S OUR HUSBAND HAS GONE MAD AGAIN AND FEMI OSOFISAN’S MOROUNTODUN
ABSTRACT
Feminism as a concept gained approval the help of some male feminist writers who write for the sake of women liberation but this concept has its limitations. Feminist aesthetics thereby came into full realization in the work of some female writers who actually...
19. PORTRAYAL OF WOMEN IN KANNYWOOD
ABSTRACT
The core northern states represent the birth place of Kannywood, adopting Kano State as the major lead in the formation of the film industry, reason why the adoption of Kannywood, which implies Kano as the birth place of the film industry, just like Hollywood, Bollywood and Nol...
20. ROLE, PORTRAYAL AND PERCEPTION OF WOMEN IN SELECTED HAUSA MOVIES
ABSTRACT
The issue of role and portrayal of women in media and videos has been an issue and constantly advocated for change by feminist film theorist. The stereotype of women by the kind of role they play and how they are portrayed tends to be negative and demeaning, this problem is glo...
21. Linguo-Literary Reflections of Feminism in the Works of Ifeoma Okoye
Abstract
The thesis is a feminist stylistic study which used the works of Ifeoma Okoye as a case study for a reassessment of the feminist discourse. It aimed at examining and unravelling how Ifeoma Okoye deployed language and style in her works to establish a non- radical and non-rebell...
22. THE PLACE OF WOMEN IN THE CHURCH OF NIGERIA (ANGLICAN COMMUNION)- PERSPECTIVES FROM 1 CORINTHIANS
Background to the Study
In recent years various women's issues have been the focus of attention and debate not only in connection with many of the structures and institutions of the Nigerian society but also within the church, including church of Nigeria (Anglican C...
23. AN ASSESSMENT OF SOCIO-CULTURAL PRACTICE HINDERING WOMEN'S PARTICIPATION IN POLITICS PARTICULARLY IN NIGERIA
Statement of the Research Problem
24. AN ASSESSMENT OF THE CHALLENGES OF WOMEN IN MANAGEMENT POSITIONS IN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLS IN THE BOLGATANGA MUNICIPALITY, GHANA
Background to the Study
The negative perception of women maintained by society manifests itself in many aspects of life. Women's contributions to nation building have generally gotten less acknowledgment than their male counterparts around the worl...
25. AN EVALUATION OF GENDER ADMISSION DESIGN INTO SECRETARIAL STUDIES PROGRAMMES IN HIGHER INSTITUTIONS
BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
Gender refers to the acquired social distinctions and relationships between men and women, which vary greatly between civilizations and cultures and evolve over time (UNESCO 1998). Gender is not synonymous with sex, which refers...
