Gender Epistemologies in Africa [electronic resource] : Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities /
Oyewumi, O.author.
This volume brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; List of Contributors; Introduction: Gendering; One: Decolonizing the Intellectual and the Quotidian: Yorùbá Scholars(hip) and Male Dominance; Two: Gender in Translation: Efúnsetán Aníwúrà; Three: Ode to Patriarchy: The Fine Line between Praise and Criticism in a Popular Senegalese Poem; Four: Women and Leadership in Nigerian Islam: The Experience of Alhaja Sheidat Mujidat Adéoyè of Òsogbo; Five: Engendering Critical Spatial Literacy: Migrant Asante Women and the Politics of Urban Space; Six: Outsiders Within: Experiences of Women Academics in Kenya
Seven: Self-Image and Self-Naming: A Discursive and Social Analysis of Women's Microenterprises in Senegal and MaliEight: Irua Ria Atumia and Anticolonial Struggles among the Gikuyu of Kenya: A Counternarrative on "Female Genital Mutilation"; Nine: NAKABUMBA: God Creates Humanity as a Potter Creates a Pot; Ten: Beyond Gendercentric Models: Restoring Motherhood to Yorùbá Discourses of Art and Aesthetics; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This volume brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa.
Anthropology.
Ethnology-Africa.
Sociology.
Africa-History.
Ethnicity.
Anthropology.
African Culture.
Sociology, general.
African History.
Gender Studies.
Ethnicity Studies.