Akosua Adomako Ampofo
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Akosua Adomako Ampofo's Degrees
- PhD Sociology University of Ghana
- Masters Sociology University of Ghana
- Bachelors Sociology University of Ghana
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Josephine Akosua Adomako Ampofo is a Ghanaian academic who is a professor of Gender Studies and African Studies at the University of Ghana. She is feminist activist-scholar, and a strong advocate for social justice.
Akosua Adomako Ampofo's Published Works
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- Women’s and Gender Studies in English-Speaking Sub-Saharan Africa (2004) (122)
- "When men speak women listen": gender socialisation and young adolescents' attitudes to sexual and reproductive issues. (2001) (117)
- Researching African women and gender studies: New social science perspectives (2008) (58)
- Collective Activism: The Domestic Violence Bill becoming Law in Ghana (2008) (52)
- PHALLIC COMPETENCE: FATHERHOOD AND THE MAKING OF MEN IN GHANA (2009) (35)
- Controlling and punishing women: violence against Ghanaian women (1993) (30)
- Re-viewing Studies on Africa, #Black Lives Matter, and Envisioning the Future of African Studies (2016) (21)
- Changing representations of women in Ghanaian popular music: Marrying research and advocacy (2012) (18)
- African feminist politics of knowledge : tensions, challenges, possibilities (2010) (17)
- Nice Guys, Condoms, and Other Forms of STDs Protection: Sex Workers and AIDS Protection in West Africa (1999) (15)
- AIDS-related knowledge and behavior among married Kenyan men: a behavioral paradox? (2001) (12)
- Understanding masculinities, empowering women: What have boys in Ghana got to do with it? (2008) (11)
- Expressions of Masculinity and Femininity in Husbands’ Care of Wives with Cancer in Accra (2016) (11)
- The Sex Trade, Globalisation and Issues of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa (2001) (10)
- Resource Contributions, Gender Orientation, and Childbearing Decision Making in Ghana; The case of Urban Couples (1999) (5)
- Framing Knowledge, Forming Behaviour; Ghanaian Women's AIDS-Protection Strategies (1998) (5)
- Costs and Rewards-Exchange in Relationship Experiences of Some Ghanaian Women (1997) (5)
- Women’s and Gender Studies in Ghana (2014) (5)
- Women and AIDS in Ghana: 'I Control My Body' (Or Do I?) (1993) (3)
- The Sex Trade, Globalization and Issues of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa (2003) (3)
- Does Women's Education Matter in Childbearing Decision Making? A Case Study From Urban Ghana (2002) (3)
- How can I come to work on Saturday when I have a family?': Ghanaian women and bank work in a neo-liberal era. (2015) (3)
- Feminisms and Acculturation around the Globe (2015) (3)
- "Sitting on a Man": Forty Years Later (2017) (2)
- Becoming an adult; the training of children in Ghana (2009) (2)
- Knowledge transmission in Ghana: alternative perspectives (2009) (2)
- Teaching and Learning in Ghana: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives (2002) (1)
- Who is the 'Driver' and Who is the 'Mate': Gender Orientations and Household Decision Making in Ghana (2000) (1)
- Women and AIDS in Ghana. 'I Control my Body (or do I)?', Ghanaian Sex Workers and Susceptability to STDs, Especially AIDS (1995) (1)
- By Way of an Afterword (2018) (1)
- Review: The Shape of Water? Women?s Activism? A View From Ghana (2008) (1)
- Mothering among Black and White Non-Ghanaian Women in Ghana (2004) (1)
- The Driver and the Mate: Gender Politics in Africa and Social Transformation (2013) (1)
- Mε san aba: The Africa We Want and an African-centered Approach to Knowledge Production (2019) (1)
- Structural inequalities or gender orientation, which matters more in reproductive decision making? : a study among urban Ghanaian couples (2000) (1)
- Black=African Lives Matter and Decolonizing the Academy (2016) (0)
- With Thanks (2011) (0)
- Gender: culture, power and resources (2003) (0)
- Researching women's lives in post-colonial contexts: Challenges and transformations in decolonizing self and research (2012) (0)
- Positioning Feminist Voices in the Global South (2021) (0)
- “I Can Weep But Not Wail”: Contemporary Young African Masculinities (2021) (0)
- Roundtable: The Politics and Practice of Study Abroad Programs in Ghana (2015) (0)
- From Distant Shores - Technology and Role Salience: Conversations With Women From Around the World in Ghana (2002) (0)
- No. There's No Room for Depression: Ghanaian Women Coping With Mental Health Issues (2005) (0)
- 32. Nice guys, condoms, and other forms of STDs protection: sex workers and AIDS protection in West Africa1 (2004) (0)
- With Thanks (2014) (0)
- In Conversation with Professor Esi Sutherland-Addy (2020) (0)
- Review: Kum-Kum Bhavnani: The Shape of Water, USA: Kum-Kum Bhavnani Productions, 2006, 70 minutes: (2008) (0)
- In Memory of Professor Ivor Wilks (2016) (0)
- The creation of a Ghanaian identity through half a century of Modernist paintings (ca 1950s – 1990s) (2017) (0)
- Who Is an African Woman? Towards a New Paradigm of Feminist Knowledge Production and Activism (2018) (0)
- Formalizing the informal and informalizing the formal? : analyzing changes in women's work in the domestic service and the banking sector in Ghana; final technical report (2012) (0)
- Black Lives Matter and the Status of the Africana World (2016) (0)
- Knowledge Production: Feminist Perspectives in the 21st Century (2016) (0)
- In Conversation with Professor Akilakpa Sawyerr (2019) (0)
- Message from Editorial Team (2020) (0)
- Young African men’s reflections on negotiating sexual intimacy (2020) (0)
- Index to Gender & Society (2006) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW Hip-hop in Africa: Prophets of the City and Dustyfoot Philosophers by Msia (2019) (0)
- CONTRIBUTIONS , GENDER ORIENTATION , AND CHJLDBEARING DECISION-MAKING IN GHANA ; THE CASE OF URBAN COUPLES 1 (0)
- "Unfit for the Monkey's Cage: Eugenics, Reproductive Liabilities, and the Greening of Hate" (2017) (0)
- Ghana’s retrogressive Public University Bill (2020) (0)
- My Children are Not Raced! My Children are Ghanaian: Trans-National Mothering in Ghana (2013) (0)
- The Editorial Team (2009) (0)
- Knowledge transmission in Ghana - alternative perspectives : introduction (2009) (0)
- Informalising the formal: The conditions of female agency workers in Ghana’s banking sector (2017) (0)
- The Socialization of Ghanaian Adolescents and Their Gendered Role Expectations and Sexual Culture (2001) (0)
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