Dorothy Takyiakwaa is an Urban and Feminist Sociologist who holds PhD in Sociology from the University of Cape Coast, Ghana. Her major research interests are in the areas of African urbanities, migration and social mobility, informal networks, gender, and sexualities. She explores these mainly from a southern and decolonial perspectives. Over the years Dorothy’s research has spanned relationship between gender socialization and gender-based violence; narrative and hegemonies of feminist discourse, socio-cultural and economic issues of women economic empowerment; women leadership in education; commercialization and agricultural livelihoods; collective action and social networks. Dorothy works at the University of Cape Coast as Lecturer in Urban Sociology and Gender Studies at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, and Researcher at the Centre for Gender Research, Advocacy and Documentation.
Email: dtakyiakwaa@gmail.com || dtakyiakwaa@ucc.edu.gh