Africa after gender?

ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: When Was Gender? Stephan F. Miescher, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Catherine M. ColePart 1. Volatile Genders and New African Women1. Out of the Closet: Unveiling Sexuality Discourses in Uganda Sylvia TamalePostscript compiled by Bianca A. Murillo2. Institutional Dilemmas: Representation versus Mobilization in the South African Gender Commission Gay W. Seidman3. Gendered Reproduction: Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies in African History Lynn M. Thomas4. Dialoging Women Nwando Achebe and Bridget TebohPart 2. Activism and Public Space5. Rioting Women and Writing Women: Gender, Class, and the Public Sphere in Africa Susan Z. Andrade6. Let Us Be United in Purpose: Variations on Gender Relations in the Yorùbá Popular Theatre Adrienne MacIain7. Doing Gender Work in Ghana Takyiwaa Manuh8. Women as Emergent Actors: A Survey of New Women's Organizations in Nigeria since the 1990s Hussaina J. AbdullahPart 3. Gender Enactments, Gendered Perceptions9. Constituting Subjects through Performative Acts Paulla A. Ebron10. Gender After Africa! Eileen Boris11. When a Man Loves a Woman: Gender and National Identity in Wole Soyinkas's Death and the King's Horseman and Mariama Bâ's Scarlet Song Eileen Julien12. Representing Culture and Identity: African Women Writers and National Cultures Nana Wilson-TagoePart 4. Masculinity, Misogyny, and Seniority13. Working with Gender: The Emergence of the "Male Breadwinner" in Colonial Southwestern Nigeria Lisa A. Lindsay14. Becoming an Opanyin: Elders, Gender, and Masculinities in Ghana since the Nineteenth Century Stephan F. Miescher15. "Give Her a Slap to Warm Her Up": Post-Gender Theory and Ghana's Popular Culture Catherine M. Cole16. The "Post-Gender" Question in African Studies Helen Nabasuta MugambiThe Production of Gendered Knowledge in the Digital AgeResources for Further ReadingList of ContributorsIndex