ISBN:
9781003812807
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (370 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Routledge/UNISA Press Series
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
929.97
Keywords:
Sociology
Abstract:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction: Towards developing feminist onomastics scholarship -- Chapter 1: Assessing the origin and perceptions of gendered Yoruba names -- Chapter 2: Gendered personal names in Yoruba and Chichewa -- Chapter 3: Setswana naming system: a gendered outlook -- Chapter 4: Gender stereotypes embedded in the labels of female subjects in a cross section of Zimbabwean music -- Chapter 5: Child naming and gender transformation in Gutu, Zimbabwe -- Chapter 6: Beyond the name: Maniangas tribe ways of naming -- Chapter 7: Subculture socio-cultural nicknaming phenomena embedded in izindlavini of amaMpondo of the Eastern Cape -- Chapter 8: Re-considering the idiom 'If God is male, then the male is God' in light of selected Shona personal names among Reformed Church in Zimbabwe Christians in Chivi, Zimbabwe -- Chapter 9: Gender in the personal naming practices of the Shona in Zimbabwe: a socio-onomastic study -- Chapter 10: Xhosa female initiates' (intonjane) perceptions of meanings and values attached to their new names -- Chapter 11: 'Get this straight, that is (not) my name', retorts a Xhosa woman -- Chapter 12: 'Hold the roof woman': exploring how the naming practices amongst isiXhosa speaking people contribute to a high divorce rate in South Africa -- Chapter 13: A feminist approach to the naming and circumstances of women in the Bible in relation to the naming of prominent Zulu women -- Chapter 14: An examination of names and gender in Ngugi's Devil on the cross and I will marry when I want -- Chapter 15: Gender shift in the use of the formative -no- in Zulu given names -- Chapter 16: Fluid identities: naming and recognition in NoViolet Bulawayo's We need new names and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah.
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