African Gender Studies A Reader

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects....Pages 3-21
Spirituality, Gender, and Power in Asante History....Pages 23-48
Front Matter....Pages 49-49
Bringing African Women into the Classroom: Rethinking Pedagogy and Epistemology....Pages 51-65
Decolonizing Feminism....Pages 67-80
Front Matter....Pages 81-82
Theorizing Matriarchy in Africa: Kinship Ideologies and Systems in Africa and Europe....Pages 83-98
(Re)constituting the Cosmology and Sociocultural Institutions of Òyó-Yorùbá....Pages 99-119
Kò Sóhun tí Mbe tí ò Nítàn (Nothing Is that Lacks a [Hi]story): On Oyèrónké Oyěwùmí’s....Pages 121-126
Women’s Roles and Existential Identities....Pages 127-144
Revisiting “Woman-Woman Marriage”: Notes on Gikuyu Women....Pages 145-165
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Making History, Creating Gender: Some Methodological and Interpretive Questions in the Writing of Oyo Oral Traditions....Pages 169-205
Gender Biases in African Historiography....Pages 207-232
Senegalese Women in Politics: A Portrait of Two Female Leaders, Arame Diène and Thioumbé Samb, 1945–1996....Pages 233-241
Front Matter....Pages 243-243
Miscegenation as Metonymy: Sexuality and Power in the Colonial Novel....Pages 245-257
Gender, Feminist Theory, and Post-Colonial (Women’s) Writing....Pages 259-278
The Hidden History of Women in Ghanaian Print Culture....Pages 279-295
Front Matter....Pages 297-297
Definitions of Women and Development: An African Perspective....Pages 299-311
An Investigative Framework for Gender Research in Africa in the New Millennium....Pages 313-331
The Yum: An Indigenous Model for Sustainable Development....Pages 333-337
Front Matter....Pages 339-339
In My Father’s House: Epilogue....Pages 341-354
Questions of Identity and Inheritance: A Critical Review of Kwame Anthony Appiah’s In My Father’s House....Pages 355-379
Front Matter....Pages 339-339
African Gender Research and Postcoloniality: Legacies and Challenges....Pages 381-395
African Women in the Academy and Beyond: Review Essay....Pages 397-416
Back Matter....Pages 417-433