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Title:Transcending Incongruities: Rethinking Feminisms and the Dynamics of Identity in Africa
Author:Kolawole, Mary ModupeISNI
Year:2002
Periodical:Agenda: Empowering Women for Gender Equity
Issue:54
Pages:92-98
Language:English
Geographic term:Africa
Subjects:feminism
Equality and Liberation
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10130950.2002.9676183
Abstract:There is a tension in the attitude to feminism of Black scholars on the continent and also in the diaspora. The author examines some of the reasons for this tension and also looks at womanism as the most favoured of the options in the African cultural context and some of the reasons for this. She argues that the attempt to globalize African women's experience and ignore cultural factors explains the negative attitude to feminism of many African women. Womanism better accommodates African women's reality, identity and dynamics of empowerment. This is an inclusive approach as opposed to an exclusive, polarized one. Womanism emphasizes cultural contextualization, the centrality of the family, the importance of including men and that it is not a 'man-hating' gender ideology. Bibliogr., notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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