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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... Yorùbá Popular Theatre ( Barber and Ògúndíjo 1994 ) , a collection of three plays that she and Báyò Ògúndíjo co - translated from the Yorùbá , seeks to contextualize Kúyè , Lániyonu , and The Road to Riches ( Ònà Òlà ) within Yorùbá ...
... Yorùbá popular theatre as well as the larger cultural framework of Yorùbá so- ciety within the given time frame ( late 1960s to early 1980s ) . Both in the critical introduction to Yorùbá Popular Theatre and in The Gen- eration of Plays ...
... Yorùbá Town . Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press for the International Africa Institute of London . 2000. The Generation of Plays : Yorùbá Popular Life in Theatre . Bloomington : Indiana University Press . 2004. Personal ...
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Unveiling Sexuality Discourses | 17 |
Representation versus Mobilization | 30 |
Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies | 48 |
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