Africa After Gender?Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, Stephan Miescher Indiana University Press, 2007 M02 7 - 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. |
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Contents
When Was Gender? | 1 |
Unveiling Sexuality Discourses in Uganda | 17 |
Representation versus Mobilization in the South African Gender Commission | 30 |
Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies in African History | 48 |
4 Dialoguing Women | 63 |
Gender Class and the Public Sphere in Africa | 85 |
Variations on Gender Relations in the Yorùbá Popular Theatre | 108 |
7 Doing Gender Work in Ghana | 125 |
Acknowledgments | 342 |
When Was Gender? | 1 |
Unveiling Sexuality Discourses in Uganda | 17 |
Representation versus Mobilization in the South African Gender Commission | 30 |
Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies in African History | 48 |
4 Dialoguing Women | 63 |
Gender Class and the Public Sphere in Africa | 85 |
Variations on Gender Relations in the Yorùbá Popular Theatre | 108 |
A Survey of New Womens Organizations in Nigeria since the 1990s | 150 |
9 Constituting Subjects through Performative Acts | 171 |
10 Gender After Africa | 191 |
Gender and National Identity in Wole Soyinkass Death and the Kings Horseman and Mariama | 205 |
African Women Writers and National Cultures | 223 |
The Emergence of the Male Breadwinner in Colonial Southwestern Nigeria | 241 |
Elders Gender and Masculinities in Ghana since the Nineteenth Century | 253 |
PostGender Theory and Ghanas Popular Culture | 270 |
16 The PostGender Question in African Studies | 285 |
The Production of Gendered Knowledge in the Digital Age | 303 |
Resources for Further Reading | 309 |
Contributors | 313 |
Index | 317 |
Cover | 335 |
Contents | 340 |
7 Doing Gender Work in Ghana | 125 |
A Survey of New Womens Organizations in Nigeria since the 1990s | 150 |
9 Constituting Subjects through Performative Acts | 171 |
10 Gender After Africa | 191 |
Gender and National Identity in Wole Soyinkass Death and the Kings Horseman and Mariama | 205 |
African Women Writers and National Cultures | 223 |
The Emergence of the Male Breadwinner in Colonial Southwestern Nigeria | 241 |
Elders Gender and Masculinities in Ghana since the Nineteenth Century | 253 |
PostGender Theory and Ghanas Popular Culture | 270 |
16 The PostGender Question in African Studies | 285 |
The Production of Gendered Knowledge in the Digital Age | 303 |
Resources for Further Reading | 309 |
Contributors | 313 |
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