Africa After Gender?Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, Stephan Miescher 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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... identity , a number of questions immediately come to mind . First , what does it means to be African ? Second , what does Africa ( and especially Nigeria ) mean to me ? And third , how do I choose to locate and name myself ?? The issue ...
... identity : she argues that the identities of the early Africanist feminists themselves offer a reason to critically examine their work . My critique of Hunt's work is also made on the grounds of identity , but for the sake of the ...
... identity . Stuart Hall's ( 1996 ) elucidation of the complex nature of identity is an invalu- able resource if applied to the periodization of gender . Hall states that “ instead of thinking of identity as an already accomplished fact ...
Contents
Unveiling Sexuality Discourses | 17 |
Representation versus Mobilization | 30 |
Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies | 48 |
Copyright | |
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