Heywood, Emma2024-09-282024-09-282024Heywood, E. (2024). Radio and Women's Empowerment in Francophone West Africa. Palgrave Macmillan. https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/133050978-3-031-35985-9https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-35985-9http://localhost:4000/handle/123456789/166https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/133050This book is freely available in DOAB (Directory of Open Access Books) at: https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/133050 Creative Commons License: CC BY 4.0This open access book breaks new ground by examining the significant role played by radio in empowering women in three Francophone West African countries: Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso. It examines the representation and perception of key themes broadcast by radio and associated with women’s empowerment in the three countries. Each chapter contextualises a specific topic in the country and then explores discrete aspects of radio’s provision. The topics covered in the chapters are women’s political engagement; women and finances; women and life within marriage; inheritance; women’s involvement in radio structures; and radio, internally displaced women, and trauma. Given the social, economic and political vulnerability and deteriorating security situation of the three countries, this book provides a timely and meaningful contribution to acknowledging and understanding the vital role of radio in women’s empowerment.enMedia studiesCultural studiesGender studiesCommunity mediaWomenFrancophoneWest AfricaBook