Gender and Identity in Africa
| Author | : Mechthild Reh |
| Publisher | : LIT Verlag Münster |
| Total Pages | : 232 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9783825821999 |
Gender And Identity In Africa
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Being and Becoming
| Author | : Ukpokolo, Chinyere |
| Publisher | : Spears Media Press |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2016-02-27 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1942876076 |
This book illuminates the complex and constantly shifting social and cultural dynamics that shape people's identity. Specifically, the volume focuses on the intersections of gender with, culture and identity, and at different historical epochs; on the way men and women define themselves and are defined by diverse peoples and cultures across time and space in sub-Saharan Africa. The discussions presented in this anthology primarily focus on 'being' as 'a state' or 'condition', defined by sex identity, and how this identity shifts, and hence 'becoming', assuming diverse meanings in disparate societies, contexts, and time. The discourse, therefore, moves from how the perception of the self in cultural and historical contexts has informed actions and at some other times shaped interpretations given to historical facts, to how changing economic realities also shape the definitions and constructions of social and relational issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. The historical trajectories of Islamic religion, colonialism and Christian missionary activities in sub-Saharan Africa have shaped the worlds of the peoples of the region and impacted on gender relations.
Gender Epistemologies in Africa
| Author | : O. Oyewumi |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 258 |
| Release | : 2011-01-03 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 0230116272 |
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.
Africa After Gender?
| Author | : Catherine M. Cole |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 690 |
| Release | : 2007-02-07 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0253218772 |
Gender is one of the most productive, dynamic, and vibrant areas of Africanist research today. This volume looks at Africa now that gender has come into play to consider how the continent, its people, and the term itself have changed.
Women Researching in Africa
| Author | : Ruth Jackson |
| Publisher | : Palgrave MacMillan |
| Total Pages | : 340 |
| Release | : 2019-08-25 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 9783030068639 |
This edited collection explores the lives, consequences and motivations of female researchers in Africa, giving unprecedented insights into how their gender--and sometimes their ethnicity and age--impacted on their research experiences, and how doing research in Africa affected them as women. Each contributor considers her place or position in the research process and provides a vivid portrait of that experience. Drawing on research findings from Nigeria, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Malawi, Uganda and other African countries, the book looks at gender and identity as a female researcher in Africa; relationships with 'others'; and unique methodological challenges for female researchers in Africa. With refreshing candour, each chapter challenges other researchers in Africa (both women and men), to integrate critical reflections of gender and diverse gendered field experiences into their work. Women Researching in Africa will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including development studies, anthropology, geography, gender studies and international studies.
Reclaiming Afrikan
| Author | : Matabeni, Zethu |
| Publisher | : Modjaji Books |
| Total Pages | : 78 |
| Release | : 2014-10-25 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1920590498 |
Reclaiming Afrikan: queer perspectives on sexual and gender identities is a collaboration and collection of art, photography and critical essays interrogating the meanings and everyday practices of queer life in Africa today. In Reclaiming Afrikan authors, activists and artists from Nigeria, Uganda, Zambia, Kenya and South Africa offer fresh perspectives on queer life; how gender and sexuality can be understood in Africa as ways of reclaiming identities in the continent. Africa is known to be harsh towards people with non-conforming genders and sexual identities. It is within this framework that Reclaiming Afrikan exists to respond to such violations and to offer alternative ways of thinking and being in the continent. The book appropriates 'Afrika' and 'queer' to affirm sexual identities that are ordinarily shamed and violated by prejudice and hatred. The use of 'k' in Afrika signals an appropriation of an identity and belonging that is always detached from a 'queer' person. 'queer' in this book is understood as an inquiry into the present, as a critical space that pushes the boundaries of what is embraced as normative. The artists and authors included in this text are 'queer' themselves and occupy spaces that speak back to hegemony. For many, this position challenges various norms on gender, sexuality, and existence and offers a subversive way of being.
Negotiating Identities in Contemporary Africa
| Author | : Toyin Falola |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 295 |
| Release | : 2023-08-29 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1666944491 |
This edited volume provides an interdisciplinary and balanced discussion on the changing dynamics of identities in Africa, with a focus on gender, ethno-cultural, and religious identity.
Gender in African Women's Writing
| Author | : Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi |
| Publisher | : Indiana University Press |
| Total Pages | : 210 |
| Release | : 1997-12-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780253211491 |
"This is a cogent analysis of the complexities of gender in the work of nine contemporary Anglophone and Francophone novelists. . . . offers illuminating interpretations of worthy writers . . . " —Multicultural Review "This book reaffirms Bessie Head's remark that books are a tool, in this case a tool that allows readers to understand better the rich lives and the condition of African women. Excellent notes and a rich bibliography." —Choice ". . . a college-level analysis which will appeal to any interested in African studies and literature." —The Bookwatch This book applies gender as a category of analysis to the works of nine sub-Saharan women writers: Aidoo, Bá, Beyala, Dangarembga, Emecheta, Head, Liking, Tlali, and Zanga Tsogo. The author appropriates western feminist theories of gender in an African literary context, and in the process, she finds and names critical theory that is African, indigenous, self-determining, which she then melds with western feminist theory and comes out with an over-arching theory that enriches western, post-colonial and African critical perspectives.
Making Citizens in Africa
| Author | : Lahra Smith |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 281 |
| Release | : 2013-05-20 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1107035317 |
This book provides a study of contemporary politics in Ethiopia through an empirical focus on language policy, citizenship, ethnic identity, and gender. It is unique in its focus not only on the political institutions of Ethiopia and the history of the country but in that it studies these subjects at the intersection of both modern and historical time periods. In particular, it argues that meaningful citizenship, which is much more than the legal state of being a citizen, is a process of citizens and the state negotiating the practice of citizenship. Therefore, it puts the citizen back at the forefront of the process of expanding citizenship, suggesting the ways that citizens support, resist, and affect state policy on political rights.
Being and Becoming
| Author | : Chinyere Ukpokolo |
| Publisher | : African Books Collective |
| Total Pages | : 278 |
| Release | : 2016-02-25 |
| Genre | : Social Science |
| ISBN | : 1942876386 |
This book illuminates the complex and constantly shifting social and cultural dynamics that shape peoples identity. Specifically, the volume focuses on the intersections of gender with, culture and identity, and at different historical epochs; on the way men and women define themselves and are defined by diverse peoples and cultures across time and space in sub-Saharan Africa. The discussions presented in this anthology primarily focus on being as a state or condition, defined by sex identity, and how this identity shifts, and hence becoming, assuming diverse meanings in disparate societies, contexts, and time. The discourse, therefore, moves from how the perception of the self in cultural and historical contexts has informed actions and at some other times shaped interpretations given to historical facts, to how changing economic realities also shape the definitions and constructions of social and relational issues in Sub-Saharan Africa. The historical trajectories of Islamic religion, colonialism and Christian missionary activities in sub-Saharan Africa have shaped the worlds of the peoples of the region and impacted on gender relations.
