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Title:Readings in Gender in Africa
Editor:Cornwall, AndreaISNI
Chapter(s):Present
Year:2005
Pages:247
Language:English
City of publisher:Bloomington, IN; Oxford
Publisher:Indiana University Press; James Currey
ISBN:0852558716; 0253217407; 0253345170
Geographic terms:Africa
West Africa
Burundi
Congo (Democratic Republic of)
Zimbabwe
Kenya
Sierra Leone
Gambia
Uganda
South Africa
Nigeria
East Africa
Sudan
Niger
Ghana
Tanzania
Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:gender relations
gender studies
women
readers (form)
Sex Roles
Historical/Biographical
Cultural Roles
Status of Women
Marital Relations and Nuptiality
Education and Training
agriculture
Development and Technology
economics
Religion and Witchcraft
refugees
slavery
organizations
nationalism
Politics and Government
Abstract:The texts in this reader on African gender relations in sub-Saharan Africa reflect broad currents within the anglophone African studies and gender literature as well as the historicity of debates on gender in Africa. Much contemporary work is concerned with defining and attributing 'gender' in Africa; and with the implications of reading African lives through Western gender-lenses. Accordingly, the first section explores issues of representation through an eclectic set of five readings with referents in wider literatures. In the shift from 'women' to 'gender', attention came to focus on the production of difference and on the negotiation of relational identities, femininities and masculinities, themes reflected in the choice of the six texts in the second section. The remaining three sections work with enduring themes in the literature: livelihoods (6 readings), religion (5 readings) and governance (6 readings). Contributors: Jean Allman, Bolanle Awe, Josephine Beoku-Betts, Iris Berger, Victoria Bernal, Caroline Bledsoe, Janet Bujra, Timothy Burke, Barbara Cooper, Andrea Cornwall, LaRay Denzer, Felicia I. Ekejiuba, Deborah Gaitskell, Rudolf P. Gaudio, Susan Geiger, Anne Marie Goetz, Jane I. Guyer, Nancy Rose Hunt, Rachel Jewkes, Lisa A. Lindsay, Stephan F. Miescher, David Mills, Nakanyike B. Musisi, Kenda Mutongi, Obioma Nnaemeka, Richard A. Schroeder, Richard Ssewakiryanga, Niara Sudarkasa, Aili Mari Tripp, Megan Vaughan, Katherine Wood. [ASC Leiden abstract]
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