• Gender Epistemologies in Africa : Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities
  • [NT 42944] Record Type: [NT 8598] Electronic resources : [NT 40817] monographic
    [NT 47348] Title Information: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities
    [NT 47353] Alternative Intellectual Responsibility: Oy�ew�um�Oy�er�onk��e.,
    [NT 47351] Place of Publication: Basingstoke
    [NT 47263] Published: Palgrave Macmillan;
    [NT 47352] Year of Publication: 2011
    [NT 47264] Description: 1 online resource (257 p.)
    [NT 47266] Subject: Gender identity - Africa. -
    [NT 47266] Subject: Social Science. -
    [NT 51458] Online resource: http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230116276
    [NT 47265] Notes: Includes index.
    [NT 51398] Summary: This book 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. If gender emerges out of particular histories and social contexts, we must therefore pay attention to the histories of genderings as well as the continuous ways in which gender is made and remade in everyday interactions, and by institutions. In this sen.
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9780230116276
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 0230116272
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 128299381X
    [NT 50961] ISBN: 9781282993815
    [NT 60779] Content Note: Cover Contents Acknowledgments List of Contributors Introduction: Gendering One: Decolonizing the Intellectual and the Quotidian: Yor�ub�a Scholars(hip) and Male Dominance Two: Gender in Translation: Ef�unset�an An�iw�ur� 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 Ad�eoy�e of �Osogbo 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 Yor�ub�a Discourses of Art and Aesthetics Index.
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