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| Title: | African Gender Studies: A Reader |
| Editor: | Oyewùmí, Oyèrónké |
| Chapter(s): | Present |
| Year: | 2005 |
| Pages: | 433 |
| Language: | English |
| City of publisher: | New York, NY |
| Publisher: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| ISBN: | 1403962820; 1403962839 |
| Geographic terms: | Africa Algeria Cameroon Ghana Kenya Nigeria Senegal |
| Subjects: | gender studies gender relations women readers (form) Cultural Roles Sex Roles Historical/Biographical Politics and Government research Education and Training literature Development and Technology |
| Abstract: | This anthology of African gender studies brings African experiences to bear on the ongoing global discussion on gender, race, power, and linked concepts. The most important criterion for the selection of papers was the extent to which they interrogate foundational assumptions and substantive issues relating to gender and women's studies. The reader is divided into seven sections: 1. Transcending the body of knowledge (papers by Oyèrónké Oyewùmí on Western theories and African subjects, and Emmanuel Akyeampong and Pashington Obeng on gender and power in Asante history); 2. Decolonizing feminisms (Obioma Nnaemeka on teaching in North America, Marnia Lazreg on studies of women in Algeria and the Middle East); 3. Reconceptualizing gender (Ifi Amadiume on matriarchy and kinship ideologies, Oyèrónké Oyewùmí on Oyo-Yoruba cultural institutions, Adélékè Adéèkó on O. Oyewùmí's 'The invention of women', Igor Kopytoff on Suku (Zaire) notions of social identity as compared to Western constructions, Wairimu Ngaruiya Njambi and William E. O'Brien on Gikuyu woman-woman marriage); 4. Gender biases in the making of history (Oyèrónké Oyewùmí on Oyo oral traditions, Paul Tiyambe Zeleza on gender biases in African historiography, Babacar Fall on Senegalese women in politics); 5. Writing women: reading gender (Abena P.A. Busia on sexuality in the colonial novel, Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi on postcolonial (women's) writing, Audrey Gadzekpo on women in Ghanaian print culture); 6. Development and social transformation (Achola O. Pala on women and development, Filomina Chioma Steady on gender research in the new millennium, Bertrade B. Ngo-Ngijol Banoum on women farmers in Cameroon); 7. Critical conversations (epilogue from Kwame Anthony Appiah's 'In my father's house' with a critical review by Nkiru Nzegwu, Desiree Lewis on African gender research and postcoloniality, and Godwin Rapando Murunga on African women in the academy). [ASC Leiden abstract] |
