caa a22 4500 388044993 CHVBK 20180307125034.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199809 xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/524824 doi S0002020600036386 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.2307/524824 Mama Amina Khaki in the Family: Gender Discourses and Militarism in Nigeria [Elektronische Daten] [Amina Mama] The Nigerian military state has used gender politics for its own ends, exploiting opportunities afforded by international concern with women. The highly publicized program for rural women enabled the regime of Babangida to gain international credibility. The Abacha regime did not seek or win international support, but sought to upstage the gender politics of their predecessors locally by mounting more broadly populist programs which promised benefits to "the family” and further reinscribed women within highly limited reproductive roles. Because Nigerian civil society has been so reluctant to engage with gender, the military have been able to appropriate the terrain they refer to as "women development” for their own ends. Through a series of high profile programs, they have neutralized the potentially subversive and inherently antimilitarist notion of women's liberation, and propagated a gender politics which normalizes military rule. Copyright © African Studies Association 1998 African Studies Review Cambridge University Press 41/2(1998-09), 1-18 0002-0206 41:2<1 1998 41 ASR https://doi.org/10.2307/524824 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/524824 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mama Amina NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- African Studies Review Cambridge University Press 41/2(1998-09), 1-18 0002-0206 41:2<1 1998 41 ASR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence SWISSBIB 234156457 BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge