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Readings in gender in Africa
Andrea Cornwall
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Frontmatter
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Notes on Contributors (page v)
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Sources & Acknowledgments (page viii)
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Introduction: Perspectives on Gender in Africa (ANDREA CORNWALL, page 1)
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1. Contested Representations: 'Gender' in Africa
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'Western Perceptions of African Women in the 19th & Early 20th Centuries', from Africana Research Bulletin (JOSEPHINE BEOKU‐BETTS, page 20)
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'The "Status of Women" in Indigenous African Societies', from The Strength of Our Mothers: African & African American Women & Families. Essays & Speeches (NIARA SUDARKASA, page 25)
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'Mapping African Feminisms', adapted version of "Introduction: Reading the Rainbow', from Sisterhood, Feminisms & Power: From Africa to the Diaspora (OBIOMA NNAEMEKA, page 31)
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'Down to Fundamentals: Women‐Centred Hearth‐holds in Rural West Africa', from D. Bryceson (ed.)Women Wielding the Hoe (FELICIA EKEJIUBA, page 41)
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'Male Lesbians & Other Queer Notions in Hausa', from S. Murray & W. Roscoe (eds) Boys Wives & Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities (RUDOLF P. GAUDIO, page 47)
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2. Reconfiguring Identities: Femininities & Masculinities
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'Noise Over Camouflaged Polygamy, Colonial Morality Taxation, & a Woman‐Naming Crisis in Belgian Africa', from Journal of African History (NANCY ROSE HUNT, page 53)
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'"Fork Up & Smile": Marketing, Colonial Knowledge & the Female Subject in Zimbabwe', from Gender & History (TIMOTHY BURKE, page 64)
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'Worries of the Heart: Widowed Mothers, Daughters & Masculinities in Maragoli, Western Kenya, 1940‐60', from Journals of African History (KENDA MUTONGI, page 71)
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'School Fees & the Marriage Process for Mende Girls in Sierra Leone', from P. Sanday & R. Goodenough (eds) Beyond the Second Sex (CAROLINE BLEDSOE, page 80)
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'"No Romance Without Finance": Commodities, Masculinities & Relationships amongst Kampalan Students' (DAVID MILLS & RICHARD SSEWAKIRYANGA, page 90)
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'"Dangerous" Love: Reflections on Violence among Xhosa Township Youth', from R. Morrell (ed.) Changing Men in Southern Africa (KATHERINE WOOD & RACHEL JEWKES, page 95)
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3. Livelihoods & Lifeways
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'Female Farming in Anthropology & African History', from M. di Leonardo (ed.) Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge (JANE I. GUYER, page 103)
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'"Gone to their Second Husbands": Marital Metaphors & Conjugal Contracts in The Gambia's Female Garden Sector', from Canadian Journal of African Studies (RICHARD A. SCHROEDER, page 111)
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'Which Family? Problems in the Reconstruction of the History of the Family as an Economic & Cultural Unit', from Journal of African History (MEGAN VAUGHAN, page 119)
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'Women "Entrepreneurs" of Early Nairobi', from Canadian Journal of African Studies (JANET M. BUJRA, page 123)
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'Baganda Women's Night Market Activities', from B. House Midamba & F. Ekechi (eds) African Market Women & Economic Power: The Role of Women in African Economic Development (NAKANYIKE B. MUSISI, page 132)
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'Shunting Between Masculine Ideals: Nigerian Railwaymen in the Colonial Era' (LISA A. LINDSAY, page 141)
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4. Transforming Traditions: Gender, Religion & 'Culture'
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'Rebels or Status Seekers? Women as Spirit Mediums in East Africa', from N. Hafkin & E. Bay, (eds) Women in Africa: Studies in Social & Economic Change (IRIS BERGER, page 148)
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'Reflections on Slavery, Seclusion & Female Labor in the Maradi Region of Niger in the 19th & 20th Centuries', from Journal of African History (BARBARA COOPER, page 156)
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'Gender Culture & Capitalism: Women & the Remaking of Islamic "Tradition" in a Sudanese Village', from Comparative Studies in Society & History (VICTORIA BERNAL, page 164)
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'Devout Domesticity? A Century of African Women's Christianity in South Africa', from C. Walker (ed.) Women & Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 (DEBORAH GAITSKELL, page 177)
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'"Called to Work for the Kingdom of God": The Challenges of Presbyterian Masculinity in Colonial Ghana' (STEPHAN F. MIESCHER, page 187)
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5. Gender & Governance
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'The Iyalode in the Traditional Yoruba Political System', from Alice Schlegel (ed.) Sexual Stratification: A Cross‐Cultural View (BOLANLE AWE, page 196)
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'Rounding Up Spinsters: Gender Chaos & Unmarried Women in Colonial Asante', from Journal of African History (JEAN ALLMAN, page 201)
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'Tanganyikan Nationalism as 'Women's Work': Life Histories, Collective Biography & Changing Historiography', from Journal of African History (SUSAN GEIGER, page 210)
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'Gender & Decolonization: A Study of Three Women in West African Public Life', from J. F. Ade Ajayi & J. D. Y. Peel (eds) People & Empires in African History: Essays in Memory of Michael Crowder (LARAY DENZER, page 217)
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'No Shortcuts to Power: Constraints on Women's Political Effectiveness in Uganda', from Journal of Modern African Studies (ANNE MARIE GOETZ, page 224)
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'Women in Movement: Transformations in African Political Landscapes', from International Feminist Journal of Politics (AILI MARI TRIPP, page 234)
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Index (page 244)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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RAL | 37.1 (2006): 138-139 | http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/research_in_african_literatures/v037/37.1robertson.html |
Citable Link
Published: 2005
Publisher: Indiana University Press
- 9780253217400 (paper)
- 9780253345172 (hardcover)