| Description |
viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction / Maria Grosz-Ngate -- Pt. 1. Women Negotiating Boundaries. Crossing Boundaries/Changing Identities: Female Slaves, Male Strangers, and Their Descendants In Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Anlo / Sandra E. Greene. Diaspora African Repatriation: The Place of Diaspora Women in the Pan-African Nexus / Obiagele Lake. Popular Music, Urban Society, and Changing Gender Relations in Kinshasa, Zaire (1950-1990) / Ch. Didier Gondola -- Pt. 2. Gender and the Mediation of Modernity. "To Determine the Scale of Wants of the Community": Gender and African Consumption / Barbara A. Moss. Embodying the Contradictions of Modernity: Gender and Spirit Possession among Maasai in Tanzania / Dorothy Hodgson. Islam, Transnational Culture, and Modernity in Rural Sudan / Victoria Bernal -- Pt. 3. Engendering Cultural Flows. Dying Gods and Queen Mothers: The International Politics of Social Reproduction in Africa and Europe / Gillian Feeley-Harnik |
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Foreign Tongues and Domestic Bodies: Gendered Cultural Regions and Regionalized Sacred Flows / Judy Rosenthal. From Story to Song: Gender, Nationhood, and the Migratory Text / Helen Nabasuta Mugambi. Traffic in Men / Paulla Ebron -- Postlude / Omari H. Kokole |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Sex role -- Africa.
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Women -- Africa.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Civilization.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001534
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| Author |
Grosz-Ngaté, Maria Luise.
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Kokole, Omari H.
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| LC no. |
96028338 |
| ISBN |
0415916429 (acid-free paper) |
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0415916437 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
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