Bloomington, Ind. [u. a.]:
Indiana Univ. Press
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2007
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328 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Herausgegeben von: | Cole, Catherine M. |
| Jahr: | 2007 |
| Maße: | 24cm |
| ISBN: | 0253218772 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| The book looks at the meaning of gender in an African context. It critically asks why gender is usually connoted with women and if gender is a Western construct. The auhors of this anthology are leading Africanist historians, anthropologists, literary critics, and political scientists. They show gender as an applied rather than theoretical tool. The book is divided into four sections: volatile genders and new African women; activism and public space; gender enactments, gender perceptions; masculinity, misogyny, and seniority. Among the topics that are being discussed are homosexuality in Uganda, schoolgirl pregnancies, gender relations in the Yorúba popular theatre, gender work in Ghana, the performance of sexuality, women's political mobilization, the work of gendered NGOs, and the role of masculinity in a gendered world and many more. Stephan F. Miescher, Takyiwaa Manuh, Catherine M. Cole: Introduction: When was gender? (S. 1); I. Volatile genders and new African women: Sylvia Tamale, postscript compiled by Bianca A. Murillo: Out of the closet: unveiling sexuality discourses in Uganda (S. 17); Gay W. Seidman: Institutional dilemmas: representation versus mobilization in the South African Gender Commission (S. 30); Lynn M. Thomas: Gendered reproduction: placing schoolgirl pregnancies in African history (S. 48); Nwando Achebe, Bridget Teboh: Dialoguing women (S. 63); II. Activism and public space: Susan Z. Andrade: Rioting women and writing women: gender, class, and the public sphere in Africa (S. 85); Adrienne MacIan: Let us be united in purpose: variations on gender relations in the Yorúbá popular theatre (S. 108); Takyiwaa Manuh: Doing gender work in Ghana (S. 125); Hussaina J. Abdullah: Women as emergent actors: a survey of new women's organizations in Nigeria since the 1990s (S. 150); III. Gender enactments, gendered perceptions: Paulla A. Ebron: Constituting subjects through performative acts (S. 171); Eileen Boris: Gender after Africa! (S. 191); Eileen Julien: When a man loves a woman: gender and national identity in Wole Soyinka's "Death and the king's horeseman" and Mariama Ba's "Scarlet song" (S. 205); Nana Wilson-Tagoe: Representing culture and identity: African women writer's and national cultures (S. 223); IV. Masculinity, misogyny, and seniority: Lisa A. Lindsay: Working with gender: the emergence of the "male breadwinner" in colonial southwestern Nigeria (S. 241); Stephan F. Miescher: Becoming an Opanyin: elders, gender, and masculinities in Ghana since the nineteenth century (S. 253); Catherine M. Cole: "Give her a slap to warm her up": post-gender theory and Ghana's popular culture (S. 270); Helen Nabasuta Mugambi. The "post-gender" question in African studies (S. 285) | |
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