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Title Gender epistemologies in Africa : gendering traditions, spaces, social institutions, and identities / edited by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Edition 1st ed
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 244 pages)
Contents Gendering / Oyèrókẹ́ Oyěwùmí -- Decolonizing the intellectual and the quotidian : Yorùbá scholars(hip) and male dominance / Oyèrókẹ́ Oyěwùmí -- Gender in translation : Ẹfúnṣetán Aníwúrà / Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́ -- Ode to patriarchy : the fine line between praise and criticism in a popular Senegalese poem / Marame Gueye -- Woman and leadership in Nigerian Islam : the experience of Alhaja Sheidat Mujidat Adéoyè of Òṣogbo / David O. Ogungbile -- Engendering critical spatial literacy : migrant Asante women and the politics of urban space / Epifania Amoo-Adare -- Outsiders within : experiences of women academics in Kenya / Njoki M. Kamau -- Self-image and self-naming : a discursive and social analysis of women's microenterprises in Senegal and Mali / Marieme S. Lo -- Iru Ria Atumia and anticolonial struggles among the Gĩkũyũ of Kenya : a counternarrative on "female genital mutilation" / Wairimũ Ngarũiya Njambi -- Nakabumba : God creates humanity as a potter creates a pot / Christine Saidi -- Beyond gendercentric models : restoring motherhood to Yorùbá discourses of art and aesthetics / Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Summary This volume brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Sex role -- Africa
Gender identity -- Africa
Women -- Africa -- Social conditions
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Gender Studies.
Gender identity
Sex role
Women -- Social conditions
Africa
Form Electronic book
Author Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónkẹ́.
ISBN 9780230116276
0230116272
9781349384754
1349384755
9786612993817
6612993812