Africa after gender? / edited by Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan F. Miescher.

Africa after gender? /

Gender is one of the most productive, dynamic, and vibrant areas of Africanist research today. This volume looks at Africa now that gender has come into play to consider how the continent, its people, and the term itself have changed.

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Other Authors: Cole, Catherine M. (Editor), Manuh, Takyiwaa (Editor), Miescher, Stephan (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2007]
Subjects:
Sex role > Africa.
Sex role > Research > Africa.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Out of the closet : unveiling sexuality discourses in Uganda / Sylvia Tamale
  • Institutional dilemmas : representation versus mobilization in the South African Gender Commission / Gay W. Seidman
  • Gendered reproduction : placing schoolgirl pregnancies in African history / Lynn M. Thomas
  • Dialoging women / Nwando Achebe and Bridget Teboh
  • Rioting women and writing women : gender, class, and the public sphere in Africa / Susan Z. Andrade
  • Let us be united in purpose : variations on gender relations in the Yorùb popular theatre / Adrienne MacIain
  • Doing gender work in Ghana / Takyiwaa Manuh
  • Women as emergent actors : a survey of new women's organizations in Nigeria since the 1990s / Hussaina J. Abdullah
  • Constituting subjects through performative acts / Paulla A. Ebron
  • Gender after Africa! / Eileen Boris
  • 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 song / Eileen Julien
  • Representing culture and identity : African Women writers and national cultures / Nana Wilson-Tagoe
  • Working with gender : the emergence of the "male breadwinner" in colonial southwestern Nigeria / Lisa A. Lindsay
  • Becoming an [c]panyin : elders, gender, and masculinities in Ghana since the nineteenth century / Stephan F. Miescher
  • "Give her a slap to warm her up" : post-gender theory and Ghana's popular culture / Catherine M. Cole
  • The "post-gender" question in African studies / Helen Nabasuta Mugambig.

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