Readings in Gender in Africa
Readings in Gender in Africa collects the most important critical and theoretical writings on how gender issues have transformed contemporary views of Africa. Scholarship from North America, Europe, and Africa is represented in this comprehensive volume. A synthetic introduction by Andrea Cornwall discusses efforts to include women in research about Africa. The volume not only shows how gender relations have been constructed on the African continent but reflects the changes in approach and...
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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
