Browsing by Author "Darkwah, A.K"

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    If Times Change, Should We Throw Away The Hearthstone? Exploring (Dis) Continuities In Autonomy And Decision-Making In The Lives Of Ghanaian Women
    (ScienceAsia, 2014) Dzokoto, V.A.A; Darkwah, A.K
    This paper attempts to investigate continuities and discontinuities between traditional and modern representations of womanhood and female gender roles focusing primarily on family and work settings. Using approaches informed by Sociology, Cultural Psychology, and African Studies, the paper explores traditional views of womanhood encapsulated in (and also transmitted intergenerationally) through proverbs. This customary perspective is contrasted with the results of the Everyday Lives Survey from the Pathways of Women's Empowerment Ghana project. The survey investigated the nature of everyday life- education, work, decision making, access to institutions, and autonomy in relationships-in six hundred (600) adult women in both rural and urban communities in three regions of Ghana. We argue that although the times are changing, there have only been modest disruptions in the lives of Ghanaian women as far as issues of autonomy and decision-making in are concerned. © 2014 Dzokoto and Darkwah.
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    Race, Gender and Global Love: Non-Ghanaian Wives, Insiders or Outsiders in Ghana?
    (University of Ghana, 2008) Darkwah, A.K
    Research on inter-racial/inter-ethnic relationships focuses heavily on relationships I the global north with limited references to those in the global south except for relationships that develop in the context of transactional, especially tourist-oriented sex. Drawing on the concept of intersectionality, this article seeks to redress that imbalance. Based on nineteen conversations with non-Ghanaian women married to Ghanaian men and living in Ghana, the article highlights the importance of context specificity in our analyses of the ways in which individuals live their lives as raced and gendered beings. In Ghana, we argue, race is not constructed primarily on the basis of phenotypical difference but, more importantly, on national origin and cultural difference. As such, perceptions of black and white wives do not differ in many ways. However, we also find that the fact of whiteness allows white women far more room to maneuver gender roles in terms of the ways in which they choose to enact their roles as wives.