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dc.contributor.advisorHoltedahl, Lisbet
dc.contributor.authorTsopgni, Mireille Laure
dc.date.accessioned2016-11-14T10:47:07Z
dc.date.available2016-11-14T10:47:07Z
dc.date.issued2016-08-15
dc.description.abstractABSTRACT This work was carried out among the Bamileke in the Menoua Division in the West Region of Cameroon. It presents my main informant, Kenfack Tsopmo Cecile, a handicapped woman of 44 years who uses entrepreneurship as a means to break the social rejection that many people face because of their handicap. Despite her handicap, Cecile is very active and present on various social arenas. She is engaged in many different entrepreneurial activities. Thanks to her lifestyle she is well integrated in her society and regarded by many people around her as a courageous and hard worker. However, in spite of her capacity to progress in business, Cecile still finds it difficult to be taken as spouse, because of her physical appearance. While working with Cecile I learned not only about her particular case, but also about many issues that she shares with other handicapped women in Bamilike society. Many handicapped women in the Menoua Division have common traits like their cultural background and their handicap condition. Their cultural background makes them capable of undertaking business. But marriage is generally a serious problem for handicapped women, because in Menoua community, there are people who consider woman’s physical appearance as the sole proof of her beauty. As a result of such opinions, handicapped women are widely excluded from the marriage social field. As victims of social exclusion, some of these handicapped women have established an association to support one another and fight for their rights.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10037/9968
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherUiT Norges arktiske universiteten_US
dc.publisherUiT The Arctic University of Norwayen_US
dc.rights.accessRightsopenAccessen_US
dc.rights.holderCopyright 2016 The Author(s)
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0en_US
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0)en_US
dc.subject.courseIDSVF-3903
dc.subjectSocial stigmaen_US
dc.subjectDisablityen_US
dc.subjectEntrepreneurshipen_US
dc.subjectBamilekeen_US
dc.subjectBamilikeen_US
dc.subjectCameroonen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectWomanen_US
dc.subjectWomenen_US
dc.subjectSocial anthropologyen_US
dc.subjectVisual anthropologyen_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Sosialantropologi: 250en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Samfunnsvitenskap: 200::Kvinne- og kjønnsstudier: 370en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Social anthropology: 250en_US
dc.subjectVDP::Social science: 200::Women's and gender studies: 370en_US
dc.titleBeyond stigma? A case of a disabled female entrepreneur from the Bamilike ethnic group of West Cameroonen_US
dc.typeMaster thesisen_US
dc.typeMastergradsoppgaveen_US


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