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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... practices -secular , religious , and customary , written and unwritten - are applied to and affect women as well as the strategies women use to bring about progressive change and resist reactionary trends . The project focuses on laws ...
... practices of the everyday . In turn , through such speech acts and everyday practices , gender is itself negotiated . In addition to its relevance to the contest of roles within the family , gender performance , as Schroeder's study ...
... practices can then influence what people consider to be normative behavior for men and women . Gender can be understood and explored in at least three different but over- Mapping ways : through discourse , through actions and practices ...
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Unveiling Sexuality Discourses | 17 |
Representation versus Mobilization | 30 |
Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies | 48 |
Copyright | |
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