Readings in gender in Africa / edited by Andrea Cornwall.

• Introduction: Perspectives on Gender in Africa / Andrea Cornwall -- Contested Representations: `Gender' in Africa : `Western Perceptions of African Women in the 19th & Early 20th Centuries', from Africana Research Bulletin / Josephine Beoku-Betts -- `The ``Status of Women'' in Indigenous African Societies', from The Strength of Our Mothers: African & African American Women & Families. Essays & Speeches / Niara Sudarkasa -- `Mapping African Feminisms', adapted version of `Introduction: Reading the Rainbow', from Sisterhood, Feminisms & Power: From Africa to the Diaspora / Obioma Nnaemeka -- `Down to Fundamentals: Women-Centred Hearth-holds in Rural West Africa, from D. Bryceson (ed.) Women Wielding the Hoe / Felicia I. Ekejiuba -- `Male Lesbians & Other Queer Notions in Hausa', from S. Murray & W. Roscoe (eds) Boy Wives & Female Husbands: Studies of African Homosexualities / Rudolf P. Gaudio -- Reconfiguring Identities: Femininities & Masculinities : `Noise Over Camouflaged Polygamy, Colonial Morality Taxation, & a Woman-Naming Crisis in Belgian Africa', from Journal of African History / Nancy Rose Hunt -- ```Fork Up & Smile'': Marketing, Colonial Knowledge & the Female Subject in Zimbabwe', from Gender & History / Timothy Burke -- `Worries of the Heart: Widowed Mothers, Daughters & Masculinities in Maragoli, Western Kenya, 1940-60', from Journal of African History / Kenda Mutongi -- `School Fees & the Marriage Process for Mende Girls in Sierra Leone', from P. Sanday & R. Goodenough (eds) Beyond the Second Sex / Caroline Bledsoe -- ```No Romance Without Finance'': Commodities, Masculinities & Relationships amongst Kampalan Students' / David Mills, Richard Ssewakiryanga -- ?```Dangerous'' Love: Reflections on Violence among Xhosa Township Youth', from R. Morrell (ed.) Changing Men in Southern Africa / Katherine Wood, Rachel Jewkes -- Livelihoods & Lifeways : `Female Farming in Anthropology & African History', from M. di Leonardo (ed.) Gender at the Crossroads of Knowledge / Jane I. Guyer -- ```Gone to their Second Husbands'': Marital Metaphors & Conjugal Contracts in The Gambian's Female Garden Sector', from Canadian Journal of African Studies / Richard A. Schroeder -- `Which Family? Problems in the Reconstruction of the History of the Family as an Economic & Cultural Unit', from Journal of African Studies / Megan Vaughan -- `Women ``Entrepreneurs'' of Early Nairobi', from Canadian Journal of African Studies / ?Janet M. Bujra -- `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 -- `Shunting Between Masculine Ideas: Nigerian Railwaymen in the Colonial Era' / Lisa A. Lindsay -- Transforming Traditions: Gender, Religion & `Culture' : `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 -- `Reflections on Slavery, Seclusion & Female Labor in the Maradi Region of Niger in the 19th & 20th Centuries', from Journal of African History / Barbara Cooper -- `Gender, Culture & Capitalism: Women & the Remaking of Islamic ``Tradition'' in a Sudanese Village', from Comparative Studies in Society & History / Victoria Bernal -- `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 -- ```Called to Work for the Kingdom of God'': The Challenges of Presbyterian Masculinities in Colonial Ghana' / Stephan F. Miescher -- Gender & Governance -- `The Iyalode in the Traditional Yoruba Political System', from Alice Schlegel (ed.) Sexual Stratification: A Cross-Cultural View / ?Bolanle Awe -- `Rounding Up Spinsters: Gender Chaos & Unmarried Woman in Colonial Asante', from Journal of African History / Jean Allman -- `Tanganyikan Nationalism as ``Women's Work'': Life Histories, Collective Biography & Changing Historiography', from Journal of African History / Susan Geiger -- `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 -- `No Shortcuts to Power: Constraints on Women's Political Effectiveness in Uganda', from Journal of Modern African Studies / Anne Marie Goetz -- `Women in Movement: Transformations in African Political Landscapes', from International Feminist Journal of Politics / Aili Mari Tripp. 

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Genus  (kao)

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Feminism  (kao)

Social ställning  -- Afrika -- 1800-talet -- 1900-talet -- 2000-talet (kao)

Genus (socialt kön)  -- Afrika (sao)

Könsroller  -- Afrika (sao)

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

Ohj-p Könsrollsfrågor: Afrika

My-p Etnografi: samhällsliv och familjeliv: Afrika

Klassifikation

305.3096 (DDC)

Ohj-p (kssb/7)

My-p (kssb/7)