ISBN:
9780253112187
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (339 pages)
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Erscheint auch als
Parallel Title:
Print version Africa After Gender?
DDC:
305.3096
Keywords:
Sex role
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Sex role Research
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Sex role ; Africa
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Sex role ; Research ; Africa
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Electronic books
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Abstract:
Gender is one of the most productive, dynamic, and vibrant areas of Africanist research today. But what is the meaning of gender in an African context? Why does gender usually connote women? Why has gender taken hold in Africa when feminism hasn't? Is gender yet another Western construct that has been applied to Africa however ill-suited and riddled with assumptions? Africa After Gender? looks at Africa now that gender has come into play to consider how the continent, its people, and the term itself have changed. Leading Africanist historians, anthropologists, literary critics, and political scientists move past simple dichotomies, entrenched debates, and polarizing identity politics to present an evolving discourse of gender. They show gender as an applied rather than theoretical tool and discuss themes such as the performance of sexuality, lesbianism, women's political mobilization, the work of gendered NGOs, and the role of masculinity in a gendered world. For activists, students, and scholars, this book reveals a rich and cross-disciplinary view of the status of gender in Africa today.Contributors are Hussaina J. Abdullah, Nwando Achebe, Susan Andrade, Eileen Boris, Catherine M. Cole, Paulla A. Ebron, Eileen Julien, Lisa A. Lindsay, Adrienne MacIain, Takyiwaa Manuh, Stephan F. Miescher, Helen Mugambi, Gay Seidman, Sylvia Tamale, Bridget Teboh, Lynn M. Thomas, and Nana Wilson-Tagoe.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: When Was Gender? -- part one: volatile genders and new african women -- 1. Out of the Closet: Unveiling Sexuality Discourses inUganda -- 2. Institutional Dilemmas: Representation versus Mobilization inthe South African Gender Commission -- 3. Gendered Reproduction: Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies inAfrican History -- 4. Dialoguing Women -- part two: activism and public space -- 5. Rioting Women and Writing Women: Gender, Class, and thePublic Sphere in Africa -- 6. Let Us Be United in Purpose: Variations on Gender Relations inthe Yorùbá Popular Theatre -- 7. Doing Gender Work in Ghana -- 8. Women as Emergent Actors: A Survey of New Women'sOrganizations in Nigeria since the 1990s -- part three: gender enactments , gendered perceptions -- 9. Constituting Subjects through Performative Acts -- 10. Gender After Africa! -- 11. When a Man Loves a Woman: Gender and National Identity inWole Soyinkas's Death and the King's Horseman and MariamaBâ's Scarlet Song -- 12. Representing Culture and Identity: African Women Writers andNational Cultures -- part four: masculinity, misogyny, and seniority -- 13. Working with Gender: The Emergence of the "MaleBreadwinner" in Colonial Southwestern Nigeria -- 14. Becoming an Cpanyin: Elders, Gender, and Masculinities inGhana since the Nineteenth Century -- 15. "Give Her a Slap to Warm Her Up": Post-Gender Theory andGhana's Popular Culture -- 16. The "Post-Gender" Question in African Studies -- The Production of Gendered Knowledge in the Digital Age -- Resources for Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index.
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