Author : Dorothy Louise Hodgson
Publisher : James Currey
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 29,80 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
This collection of 17 essays examines the many ways African women pushed the boundaries, individually and collectively, of acceptable behaviour to produce changes in the gendered dynamics of power and a reconfiguration of broader moral and social orders.
Author : Teresa A. Meade
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 33,85 MB
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0470692820
A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of womenaround the world, studies their interaction with men in genderedsocieties, and looks at the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. An extensive survey of the history of women around the world,their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. Discusses family history, the history of the body andsexuality, and cultural history alongside women’s history andgender history. Considers the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race andreligion to the formation of gendered societies. Contains both thematic essays and chronological-geographicessays. Gives due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern era as wellas to the modern era. Written by scholars from across the English-speaking world andscholars for whom English is not their first language.
Author : Andrea Cornwall
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,95 MB
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253345172
This is a comprehensive overview on the existing literature on gender in Africa. It covers areas such as Western perceptions, colonial morality, religion and politics.
Author : Nwando Achebe
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Press
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 13,68 MB
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : History
ISBN : 029932110X
Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present. Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume considers such topics as the representation of African women, their role in national liberation movements, their experiences of religious fundamentalism (both Christian and Muslim), their incorporation into the world economy, changing family and marriage systems, impacts of the world economy on their lives and livelihoods, and the unique challenges they face in the areas of health and disease. Contributors: Nwando Achebe, Ousseina Alidou, Signe Arnfred, Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois, Henryatta Ballah, Teresa Barnes, Josephine Beoku-Betts, Emily Burril, Abena P. A. Busia, Gracia Clark, Alicia Decker, Karen Flint, December Green, Cajetan Iheka, Rachel Jean-Baptiste, Elizabeth M. Perego, Claire Robertson, Kathleen Sheldon, Aili Mari Tripp, Cassandra Veney
Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 38,74 MB
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1351711210
Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora addresses the question of to what extent the history of gender in Africa is appropriately inscribed in narratives of power, patriarchy, migration, identity and women and men’s subjection, emasculation and empowerment. The book weaves together compelling narratives about women, men and gender relations in Africa and the African Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives, with a view to advancing original ways of understanding these subjects. The chapters achieve three things: first, they deliberately target long-held but erroneous notions about patriarchy, power, gender, migration and masculinity in Africa and of the African Diaspora, vigorously contesting these, and debunking them; second, they unearth previously marginalized and little known his/herstories, depicting the dynamics of gender and power in places ranging from Angola to Arabia to America, and in different time periods, decidedly gendering the previously male-dominated discourse; and third, they ultimately aim to re-write the stories of women and gender relations in Africa and in the African Diaspora. As such, this work is an important read for scholars of African history, gender and the African Diaspora. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African Studies, Diaspora Studies, Gender and History.
Author : Elene Cloete
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 44,2 MB
Release : 2020-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1793607400
African Women and their Networks of Support: Intervening Connections is an interdisciplinary analysis of how African women, in their different cultural, social, and political spaces, find innovative strategies to address the challenge they face and voice their often-underrepresented perspectives. These actions are often molded in either formal or informal networks of support that provide women with the necessary peer-based foundation to deal with gender discrimination, violence, and subjugation. On other occasions, women’s strategies toward change are driven by specific individuals who set the transformative agenda and trajectory toward social change. Contributors label these efforts as intervening connections, representing women's intentional actions to circumvent, disrupt, question, and ultimately rearrange structures of gender discrimination. Respective chapters capture networks that are historic and current; real, virtual, and imagined; local and transnational, and managed by women on the continent as well as in the diaspora. Considering these diverse spaces in which networking happens, contributors underscore not only how African women aim at deconstructing current systemic gender inequalities, but also how they are developing futures of gender equity and equality.
Author : Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Publisher :
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 26,48 MB
Release : 2019
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0472054139
Fresh insights into gendered politics in Cameroon
Author : Maria Luise Grosz-Ngaté
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 9780415916431
First Published in 1997. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Akinloyè Ojó
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 26,31 MB
Release : 2020-09-30
Category : African literature (English)
ISBN : 9780367665449
Introduction. Perspectives on gender and development in Africa and its diaspora / Akinloyè Òjó, Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe, and Felisters Kiprono -- Women as sandwiches in the jaws of violence : a study of the impact of crisis on the female gender in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's novels / Augustine O. Evue -- Violence against women in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Purple hibiscus and Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Trafficked : an African feminist insight / Charles A. Bodunde (Ph. D) and Foluke R. Aliyu-Ibrahim -- Narrating the woes of women in war times : the examples of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo's Roses and bullets and Chimamanda Adichie's Half of a yellow sun / Ezinwanyi E. Adam & Chinenye M. Egboh -- Female circumcision : inexpressiveness and loss in Julie Okoh's Edewede / Oludolapo Ojediran -- Gender and dramaturgy in Wale Ogunyemi's Queen Amina of Zazzau and Femi Osofisan's Women of Owu / Ojo Olorunleke -- Socio-cultural perception of sexist Yoruba proverbs and implications for peace and national cohesion / Adeniyi Kikelomo, Jegede Francis, and Adebanjo Mopelola -- Asunle cannot be a man : a gendered analysis of Yoruba praise names in Yorubaland and the diaspora / Akinloyè Òjó -- Gender equality, gender inequality or gender complementarity : insights from Igbo traditional culture / Dorothy Oluwagbemi-Jacob -- Gender and contesting phenomena (religion, culture, and ethnicity) : towards development in Africa and the African diaspora / Oyeronke Olademo -- Gender equality : a comparative narrative in African religious Christian and Islamic traditions / Adepeju Johson-Bashua -- Gender equality narratives in African cultural and religious beliefs : contents and discontents / Ibigbolade S. Aderibigbe -- Islamic law of inheritance : ultimate solution to social inequality against women in Yoruba land / Abdulmajeed Hassan Bello -- Not on this mat : a biographical sketch of marriage, labor, sex and gender relations in an African history / Ebenezer Ayesu -- Culture and development : indigenous structures, gender, and everyday life in colonial coastal southern Ghana / Kwaku Nti -- The challenge of gender : marginal participation of women in mathematics in Nigeria / Obale-Hundeyin Ayo. S -- Rural women farmers and food production in Ekiti-Kwara, Nigeria : motives and challenges of operation / Olawepo. R. A -- Female achievement in geography and planning in Lagos State University, Nigeria / Mohammad Olaitan Lawal -- Women and sport in Kenya / Janet Musimbi M'mbaha.
Author : Ama Ata Aidoo
Publisher : Heinemann
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 24,25 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction in English
ISBN : 9780435910136
In this collection of short stories, Aidoo elevates the mundane in women's lives to an intellectual level in an attempt at challenging patriarchal structures and dominance in African society.
