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Bih, Emmanuella (2025). Gender inequality in Cameroon: from the perspective of women against women-a household influence. PhD thesis, Universität zu Köln.

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Abstract

This dissertation offers a new contribution and a new approach by examining the different media and contexts in which women address violence. It also addresses or criticises the use of language to downgrade women. Hence, the aim is to use precisely the language varieties and styles of speaking used by the women in question— which are the women in the English-speaking parts of Cameroon, to present, discuss, and analyse the various aspects of its topic. Using their language varieties, is also a way of reaching back to these women spoken of in this research such that they could be able to recognise their own stories—as it is written in a language, they understand best. In this study, many qualitative methods were used to get the result. The methods were as follows; In-depth, open-ended interviews, participant observation, discourse analysis, social media and document analysis. The research was carried out through fieldwork (with many visits to the field), internet searches, and desk study. The results obtained depend on the different methods used. For example, on the part of social media, I realised through this research that vicarious writing, which is the main method this research is based on, is much more put into practice here. Women’s stories were told or written by other women as the owners of these stories couldn’t tell them by themselves. While in household experiences, in as much as all the chapters are interwoven, this particular area (the home) of women’s meetings could act as the pivot for all other meeting platforms in this research. This is because it gives an idea of where most women are coming from, where they got their principles from, and one of the main areas where their emotions could be nurtured. From the results gotten, I noticed that almost everything is influenced by power relations. It is about who is more powerful than the other, who has more rights than the other, and who has the right to make certain decisions. Therefore, inequality among women might still have a long way to go, so far power relations is still a big influence.

Item Type:	Thesis (PhD thesis)
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Bih, Emmanuella emmanuel.vebo@yahoo.com UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-789685
Date:	2025
Place of Publication:	Köln
Language:	English
Faculty:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Divisions:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Fächergruppe 4: Außereuropäische Sprachen, Kulturen und Gesellschaften > Institut für Afrikanistik und Ägyptologie
Subjects:	Social sciences Education Language, Linguistics English Other languages
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Women, gender, inequality, childhood, education, language,Cameroon, Africa, men English
Date of oral exam:	8 November 2023
Referee:	Name Academic Title Storch, Anne Professor Mietzner, Angelika Professor
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/78968