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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... jalis is to sing the praises of their important patrons and act as mediators between families as well as between communities and po- litical figures . Jalis figure prominently in a number of ceremonial activities , in- cluding naming ...
... jali interlocutors tell us every- thing , even their secrets . " I am going to get the facts out of those jalis , Paulla , ” she would say . Within a few days of conducting interviews , it became clear that the inter- view questions ...
... jalis . See Mandinka jalis ( praise singers ) James , Adeola , 229 Jameson , Fredric , 207 Jane Eyre ( Brontë ) , 95 JanMohamed , Abdul , 207 Jenda : A Journal of Culture and African Women Studies , 305-306 Jim Crow laws , 198 The Joys ...
Contents
Unveiling Sexuality Discourses | 17 |
Representation versus Mobilization | 30 |
Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies | 48 |
Copyright | |
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