Readings in Gender in Africa
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A student's textbook suitable for course adoption
Introduction : perspectives on gender in Africa1Western perceptions of African women in the 19th & early 20th centuries20The "status of women" in indigenous African societies25'Mapping African feminisms', adapted version of 'introduction : reading the rainbow'31Down to fundamentals : women-centred hearth-holds in rural West Africa41Male lesbians & other queer notions in Hausa47Noise over camouflaged polygamy, colonial morality taxation, & a woman-naming crisis in Belgian Africa53"Fork up & smile" : marketing, colonial knowledge & the female subject in Zimbabwe64Worries of the heart : widowed mothers, daughters & masculinities in Maragoli, Western Kenya, 1940-6071School fees & the marriage process for Mende girls in Sierra Leone80"No romance without finance" : commodities, masculinities & relationships amongst Kampalan students90"Dangerous" love : reflections on violence among Xhosa Township youth95Female farming in anthropology & African history103"Gone to their second husbands" : marital metaphors & conjugal contracts in the Gambia's female garden sector111Which family? : problems in the reconstruction of the history of the family as an economic & cultural unit119Women "entrepreneurs" of early Nairobi123Baganda women's night market activities132Shunting between masculine ideals : Nigerian railwaymen in the colonial era141Rebels or status seekers? : women as spirit mediums in East Africa148Reflections on slavery, seclusion & female labor in the Maradi region of Niger in the 19th & 20th centuries156Gender, culture & capitalism : women & the remaking of Islamic "tradition" in a Sudanese village164Devout domesticity? : a century of African women's Christianity in South Africa177"Called to work for the kingdom of God" : the challenges of Presbyterian masculinities in colonial Ghana187The Iyalode in the traditional Yoruba political system196Rounding up spinsters : gender chaos & unmarried women in colonial Asante201Tanganyikan nationalism as "women's work" : life histories, collective biography & changing historiography210Gender & decolonization : a study of three women in West African public life217No shortcuts to power : constraints on women's political effectiveness in Uganda224Women in movement : transformations in African political landscapes234
