Africa After Gender?Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, Stephan Miescher Indiana University Press, 2007 - 328 pages 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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... Chevron Texaco workers changing shifts at the crude - oil tank farm in Escavros ( Urhobo ) found their work interrupted by the surreptitious arrival of about 150 mostly middle - aged or elderly women , some with babies strapped to their ...
... Chevron Texaco , which , though it had agreed to negoti- ate , had , by day six of the standoff , not responded to the women's demands in any substantive way . The perceived physical threat from the militia groups and the company's ...
... Chevron Texaco's past agreements with Itsekiri elders included promises that the corporation would support local schools , pay for university scholarships , wire villages for electricity , install running water , and construct roads and ...
Contents
Unveiling Sexuality Discourses | 17 |
Representation versus Mobilization | 30 |
Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies | 48 |
Copyright | |
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