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Africa After Gender?: (English)

Africa After Gender?: (English)

          
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Gender is one of the most productive, dynamic, and vibrant areas of Africanist research today. But what is the meaning of gender in an African context? Why does gender usually connote women? Why has gender taken hold in Africa when feminism hasn't? Is gender yet another Western construct that has been applied to Africa however ill-suited and riddled with assumptions? Africa After Gender? looks at Africa now that gender has come into play to consider how the continent, its people, and the term itself have changed. Leading Africanist historians, anthropologists, literary critics, and political scientists move past simple dichotomies, entrenched debates, and polarizing identity politics to present an evolving discourse of gender. They show gender as an applied rather than theoretical tool and discuss themes such as the performance of sexuality, lesbianism, women's political mobilization, the work of gendered NGOs, and the role of masculinity in a gendered world. For activists, students, and scholars, this book reveals a rich and cross-disciplinary view of the status of gender in Africa today. Contributors are Hussaina J. Abdullah, Nwando Achebe, Susan Andrade, Eileen Boris, Catherine M. Cole, Paulla A. Ebron, Eileen Julien, Lisa A. Lindsay, Adrienne MacIain, Takyiwaa Manuh, Stephan F. Miescher, Helen Mugambi, Gay Seidman, Sylvia Tamale, Bridget Teboh, Lynn M. Thomas, and Nana Wilson-Tagoe.

Table of Contents:
Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: When Was Gender?Stephan F. Miescher, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Catherine M. Cole Part 1. Volatile Genders and New African Women 1. Out of the Closet: Unveiling Sexuality Discourses in UgandaSylvia Tamale Postscript compiled by Bianca A. Murillo 2. Institutional Dilemmas: Representation versus Mobilization in the South African Gender CommissionGay W. Seidman 3. Gendered Reproduction: Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies in African HistoryLynn M. Thomas 4. Dialoging WomenNwando Achebe and Bridget Teboh Part 2. Activism and Public Space 5. Rioting Women and Writing Women: Gender, Class, and the Public Sphere in AfricaSusan Z. Andrade 6. Let Us Be United in Purpose: Variations on Gender Relations in the Yorùbá Popular TheatreAdrienne MacIain 7. Doing Gender Work in GhanaTakyiwaa Manuh 8. Women as Emergent Actors: A Survey of New Women's Organizations in Nigeria since the 1990sHussaina J. Abdullah Part 3. Gender Enactments, Gendered Perceptions 9. Constituting Subjects through Performative ActsPaulla A. Ebron 10. Gender After Africa!Eileen Boris 11. 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 SongEileen Julien 12. Representing Culture and Identity: African Women Writers and National CulturesNana Wilson-Tagoe Part 4. Masculinity, Misogyny, and Seniority 13. Working with Gender: The Emergence of the "Male Breadwinner" in Colonial Southwestern NigeriaLisa A. Lindsay 14. Becoming an Opanyin: Elders, Gender, and Masculinities in Ghana since the Nineteenth CenturyStephan F. Miescher 15. "Give Her a Slap to Warm Her Up": Post-Gender Theory and Ghana's Popular CultureCatherine M. Cole 16. The "Post-Gender" Question in African StudiesHelen Nabasuta Mugambi The Production of Gendered Knowledge in the Digital Age Resources for Further Reading List of Contributors Index


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780253218773
  • Publisher: Indiana University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Indiana University Press
  • Depth: 25
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: 01
  • Spine Width: 23 mm
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0253218772
  • Publisher Date: 07 Feb 2007
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Height: 235 mm
  • No of Pages: 344
  • Series Title: English
  • Weight: 499 gr


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