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dc.contributor.authorPorter, Gina
dc.contributor.authorHampshire, Kate
dc.contributor.authorAbane, Albert
dc.contributor.authorMunthali, Alister
dc.contributor.authorRobson, Elsbeth
dc.contributor.authorDe Lannoy, Ariane
dc.contributor.authorTanle, Augustine
dc.contributor.authorOwusu, Samuel
dc.date.accessioned2021-02-24T11:54:50Z
dc.date.available2021-02-24T11:54:50Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationGina Porter, Kate Hampshire, Albert Abane, Alister Munthali, Elsbeth Robson, Ariane De Lannoy, Augustine Tanle & Samuel Owusu (2020) Mobile phones, gender, and female empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: studies with African youth, Information Technology for Development, 26:1, 180-193, DOI: 10.1080/02681102.2019.1622500
dc.identifier.urihttps://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/16317
dc.description.abstractData from qualitative and survey research with young people in 24 locations (urban and rural) across Ghana, Malawi, and South Africa expose the complex interplay between phone ownership and usage, female empowerment, and chronic poverty in Africa. We consider gendered patterns of phone ownership and use before examining practices of use in educational settings, in business and in romantic and sexual relationships. While some reshaping of everyday routines is evident, in the specific context of female empowerment we find little support within our sites for the concept of the mobile phone as an instrument of positive transformative change. The phone's application in romantic and sexual relationships demonstrates particularly strongly the way phones are complicit in constraining women's empowerment and points to potential wider repercussions, including for educational and entrepreneurship trajectories. Women's agency is still mired within wider structures of patriarchy and chronic poverty: existing inequalities are being re-inscribed and reinforced.
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.titleMobile Phones, Gender, and Female Empowerment in sub-Saharan Africa: Studies with African Youth
dc.typeArticle
dc.rights.holder© 2019 The Author(s). Published by InformaUK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group
dc.identifier.externalurihttps://doi.org/10.1080/02681102.2019.1622500
dc.identifier.agES/J018082/1
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/02681102.2019.1622500


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