African Gender Studies A Reader

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ISBN: 9781403962836

ISBN-10: 1403962839

ISBN-13: 9781403962836

Edition: 2004 (Revised)

Authors: Oyeronke Oyewumi

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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. With a theoretical and conceptual focus, "African Gender Studies will inform debate in African Studies, Women's Studies, History, Sociology and Anthropology.

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List price: $41.00
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date: 8/6/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.738
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Preface



Transcending the Body of Knowledge



Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects




Spirituality, Gender, and Power in Asante History




Decolonizing Feminisms



Bringing African Women into the Classroom: Rethinking Pedagogy and Epistemology




Decolonizing Feminism




Reconceptualizing Gender



Theorizing Matriarchy in Africa: Kinship Ideologies and Systems in Africa and Europe




(Re)constituting the Cosmology and Sociocultural Institutions of Oyo-Yoruba




Ko Sohun ti Mbe ti o Nitan (Nothing Is that Lacks a [Hi]story): On Oyeronke Oyewumi's The Invention of Women




Women's Roles and Existential Identities




Revisiting "Woman-Woman Marriage": Notes on Gikuyu Women




Gender Biases in the Making of History



Making History, Creating Gender: Some Methodological and Interpretive Questions in the Writing of Oyo Oral Traditions




Gender Biases in African Historiography




Senegalese Women in Politics: A Portrait of Two Female Leaders, Arame Diene and Thioumbe Samb, 1945-1996




Writing Women: Reading Gender



Miscegenation as Metonymy: Sexuality and Power in the Colonial Novel




Gender, Feminist Theory, and Post-Colonial (Women's) Writing




The Hidden History of Women in Ghanaian Print Culture




Development and Social Transformation



Definitions of Women and Development: An African Perspective




An Investigative Framework for Gender Research in Africa in the New Millennium




The Yum: An Indigenous Model for Sustainable Development




Critical Conversations



In My Father's House: Epilogue




Questions of Identity and Inheritance: A Critical Review of Kwame Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House




African Gender Research and Postcoloniality: Legacies and Challenges




African Women in the Academy and Beyond: Review Essay



Contributors