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African Gender Studies

A Reader

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  • © 2005

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  1. Oyèrónké Oyěwùmí
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Table of contents (22 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Transcending the Body of Knowledge

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects

      • Oyèrónké Oyěwùmí
      Pages 3-21

    3. Spirituality, Gender, and Power in Asante History

      • Emmanuel Akyeampong, Pashington Obeng
      Pages 23-48

  3. Decolonizing Feminisms

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49
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    2. Bringing African Women into the Classroom: Rethinking Pedagogy and Epistemology

      • Obioma Nnaemeka
      Pages 51-65

    3. Decolonizing Feminism

      • Marnia Lazreg
      Pages 67-80

  6. Writing Women: Reading Gender

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 243-243
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    2. Miscegenation as Metonymy: Sexuality and Power in the Colonial Novel

      • Abena P. A. Busia
      Pages 245-257

    3. Gender, Feminist Theory, and Post-Colonial (Women’s) Writing

      • Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi
      Pages 259-278
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About this book

This is the first comprehensive reader that brings African experiences to bear on the ongoing global discussions of women, gender, and society. Bringing together the essential writing on this topic from the last 25 years, these essays discuss gender in Africa from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

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'Contributors to African Gender Studies address, in very valuable ways, a variety of theoretical and methodological issues regarding study of the status of women in Africa as contrasted with notions of feminism in the North. Among those issues are the construction of gender in different African contexts, innovative development strategies, the role of the African academic, pedagogies in the North and South, insider and outsider perspectives, and revisionist historiography. This volume should be required reading for all students of Africa and its diaspora.' - Betty J. Harris, University of Oklahoma

'For the diversity and renown of its authors as well as the breadth of its topical coverage, this book deserves a wide reading. Its subject matter, African gender studies, is important not only for Africa but also for its ability to affect both the discourse about and action on global issues dealing with gender, 'development,' and social and economic justice. ' - Cheryl Johnson-Odim, Columbia College Chicago; author of For Women and the Nation: Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti of Nigeria

About the authors

OYERONKE OYEWUMI is Associate Professor of Sociology, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA. She is author of The Invention of Women: Making Sense of Gender Discourses (University of Minnesota Press, 1997).

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