Wicked Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa

Name: Wicked Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa
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ISBN: 9780325070049

ISBN-10: 0325070040

ISBN-13: 9780325070049

Edition: 2001

Authors: Dorothy L. Hodgson, Sheryl McCurdy

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This edited collection of 17 essays examines the many ways African women pushed the borders individually and collectively, of "acceptable" behavior to produce changes in the gendered dynamics of power and a reconfiguration of broader moral and social orders. The book bridges the gap between studies of women and studies of gender by demonstrating how gender relations are produced, reproduced, and transformed through the everyday ideas and agency of women and men interacting with local and translocal structures and processes. With rich attention to the interplay between agency, power, and structure, this superb collection challenges common stereotypes of African women as either victims or…

Book details

List price: $46.00
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 4/19/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 344
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


"Wicked" Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa



Contesting Conjugality; Women, Marriage, Divorce and the Emerging Colonial State in Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1892-1904



"She Thinks She's Like a Man": Marriage and (De)construction Gender Identity in Colonial Buha, Western Tanzania, 1943-1960



Wayward Women and Useless Men: Contest and Change in Gender Relations in Ado-Odo



"Gone to Their Second Husbands": Marital Metaphors and Conjugal Contracts in the Gambia's Female Garden Sector



Rounding up Spinisters: Gender Chaos and Unmarried Women in Colonial Asante



"My Daughter Belongs to the Government Now": Marriage, Maasai, and the Tanzania State



Taking Spaces Making Spaces; Gender and the Cultural Construction of "Bad Women" in the Development of Kampala-Kibuga, 1900-1962



You Have Left Me Wandering About: Basotho Women and the Culture of Mobility



Urban Threats: Manyema Women, Low Fertility, and Venereal Diseases in British Colonial Tanganyika, 1926-36



Negotiating Social Independence: The Challenges of Career Pursuits for Igbo Women in Post Colonial Nigeria



Negotiating Difference; The Politics of Difference and Women's Associations in Niger: Of "Prostitutes," the Public, and Politics



"Wicked Women" and "Respectable Ladies": Reconfiguring Gender on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1936-1964



Gender and Profiteering: Ghana's Market Women as Devoted Mothers and "Human Vampire Bats"



Index