ISBN:
9781137090096
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (429 p)
Parallel Title:
Print version Oyewumi, Oyeronke African Gender Studies : A Reader
DDC:
301
Keywords:
Sex role ; Africa
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Electronic books
Abstract:
This is the first comprehensive reader that brings African experiences to bear on the ongoing global discussions of women, gender, and society. Bringing together the essential writing on this topic from the last 25 years, these essays discuss gender in Africa from a multi-disciplinary perspective. OYERONKE OYEWUMI is Associate Professor of Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA. She is author of The Invention of Women: Making Sense of Gender Discourses(University of Minnesota Press, 1997).
Abstract:
Cover -- Half-Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Section I Transcending the Body of Knowledge -- 1. Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects -- 2. Spirituality, Gender, and Power in Asante History -- Section II Decolonizing Feminisms -- 3. Bringing African Women into the Classroom: Rethinking Pedagogy and Epistemology -- 4. Decolonizing Feminism -- Section III Reconceptualizing Gender -- 5. Theorizing Matriarchy in Africa: Kinship Ideologies and Systems in Africa and Europe
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6. (Re)constituting the Cosmology and Sociocultural Institutions of `Oyo·-Yorùbá -- 7. Kò Sóhun tí Mbe tí ò Nítàn (Nothing Is that Lacks a [Hi]story): On Oyèrónké Oy?ewùmí's The Invention of Women -- 8. Women's Roles and Existential Identities -- 9. Revisiting "Woman-Woman Marriage": Notes on Gikuyu Women -- Section IV Gender Biases in the Making of History -- 10. Making History, Creating Gender: Some Methodological and Interpretive Questions in the Writing of Oyo Oral Traditions -- 11. Gender Biases in African Historiography
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12. Senegalese Women in Politics: A Portrait of Two Female Leaders, Arame Diène and Thioumbé Samb, 1945-1996 -- Section V Writing Women: Reading Gender -- 13. Miscegenation as Metonymy: Sexuality and Power in the Colonial Novel -- 14. Gender, Feminist Theory, and Post-Colonial (Women's) Writing -- 15. The Hidden History of Women in Ghanaian Print Culture -- Section VI Development and Social Transformation -- 16. Definitions of Women and Development: An African Perspective -- 17. An Investigative Framework for Gender Research in Africa in the New Millennium
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18. The Yum: An Indigenous Model for Sustainable Development -- Section VII Critical Conversations -- 19. In My Father's House: Epilogue -- 20. Questions of Identity and Inheritance: A Critical Review of Kwame Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House -- 21. African Gender Research and Postcoloniality: Legacies and Challenges -- 22. African Women in the Academy and Beyond: Review Essay -- Contributors -- Index
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