African gender studies : a reader

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African gender studies : a reader / ed. by Oyèrónké Oyewùmi

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Oyewumi, Oyeronke (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	German
Published:	New York [u.a.] : Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
Subjects:	Geschlechterrolle Afrika Frau Gesellschaft Aufsatzsammlung
Contents/pieces:	22 records

1. Senegalese women in politics : a portrait of two female leaders, Arame Diène and Thioumbé Samb, 1945-1996

2. Questions of identity and inheritance : a critical review of Kwame Anthony Appiah's "in my father's house"

3. Kò Sóhun tí Mbe tí ò Nìtàn (Nothing is that lacks a (hi)story) : On Oyèrónké Oyewùmí's "The invention of women

4. African woman in the academy and beyond : review essay

5. An investigative framework for gender research in Africa in the new millenium

6. Theorizing matriarchy in Africa : kinship ideologies and systems in Africa and Europe

7. African gender research and postcoloniality : legacies and challenges

8. Definitions of women and development : an African perspective

9. Gender biases in African historiography

10. Bringing African women into the classroom : rethinking pedagogy and epistemology

11. Visualizing the body : Western theories and African subjects

12. Spirituality, gender, and power in Asante history

13. Gender, feminist theory, and post-colonial (women's) writing

14. Miscegenation as metonymy : sexuality and power in the colonial novel

15. (Re)constituting the cosmology and sociocultural institutions of Oyó-Yorùba

16. Making history, creating gender : some methodological and interpretive questions in the writing of Oyo oral traditions

17. The hidden history of women in Ghanaian print culture

18. Decolonizing feminism

19. The "Yum" : an indigenous model for sustainable development

20. In my father's house : Epilogue

21. Women's roles and existential identities

22. Revisiting "Woman-Woman marriage" : notes on Gikuyu woman