Supporting Women's Economic Enfranchisement

Rose Korang-Okrah received her BA in Social Work and Psychology with First Class Honors from the University of Ghana. She received her Master in Social Work from Washington University in St Louis, MO and her PhD. in Social work from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She served as an Assistant Professor at Western Kentucky University, and Missouri State University. Her research and professional activities focus on women rights, their access to property, and girls' education. In Ghana, she served as a Principal Superintendent in Teaching and a Specialist Mathematics Teacher, and a Diocesan Women and Development Coordinator in Ghana. Wendy Haight graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Reed College with a BA in Psychology, and from the University of Chicago with a PhD in Psychology. She served for 16 years as a professor at the University of Illinois School of Social Work, and 13 years as a Professor and Gamble-Skogmo Chair at the University of Minnesota School of Social Work. Herresearch is broadly concerned with the welfare of children and families. She primarily uses comparative, ethnographic methods to better understand and then address complex social issues. She has published approximately 80 articles in peer-reviewed journals and 13 scholarly books.Priscilla Gibson, a Professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Minnesota, is a 2020 Fulbright Scholar in Namibia and Licensed Independent Clinical Social Worker. She teaches social work with individuals, families and groups; diversity and social justice; and international social work in Ghana. She explores African American grandmothers as intergenerational caregivers, the ally model of social justice, African Americans and out-of-school suspensions, character virtues in homeless youth, parenting in families with low-incomes, health and healing of women of color at predominantly white institutions and international social work education in Ghana, Namibia and Moldova.

• Prologue Part 1. The global Human Rights Issue of Women's Property Rights 1. Introduction 2. Women's Property Rights Violations Through the Lens of Transnational African Feminism Part 2. The Case of Akan Widows 3. The Case of Akan Widows in Ghana: Sociocultural-historical Contexts 4. Our Social Work Ethnography 5. The Economic Experiences of Akan Widows 6. The Psychosocial, Spiritual and Moral Experiences of Akan Widows 7. Akan Widows' Responses to Psychosocial, Spiritual, and Moral Injury 8. Community-generated Solutions to Women's Loss of Property Rights 9. Women's Communal Agency: The St. Monicas Group Part 3. Lessons Learned 10. Some Reflections and Implications