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1 online resource (lxviii, 2556 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits (chiefly color) |
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Springer Nature reference |
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Springer Nature reference.
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| Contents |
Volume 1. Section I. Introduction. Introduction: Decolonizing African women's studies -- Section II. Research and knowledge production on women in Africa. African feminism -- Teaching women's studies in Africa -- Decolonizing the curriculum on African women and gender studies -- Women and indigenous knowledge in Africa -- African indigenous knowledge systems and the empowerment of African women -- Women, gender, and knowledge production in anglophone Africa and its diaspora -- Women, gender, and development in Africa -- Feminist legal theory, human rights, and culture in Africa -- Women, gender, and race in post-apartheid South Africa -- Researching women and gender in Africa : present realities, future directions -- Postscript: Teaching women's studies in Africa - sample syllabi -- Section III. African women and politics. Women, gender, and politics in Africa -- Women in political parties in Africa -- Women in African parliaments : progress and prospects -- Women in judiciaries across Africa -- Women in executive political leadership in Africa -- Women in local government in Africa : gender, resistance, and empowerment -- Women in/and the security sector in Africa -- Gender equality policies and African women : a comparative critique -- Women, quotas, and affirmative action policies in Africa -- The state of LGBT rights in Africa -- Women, activism, and the state in North Africa -- Women of African islands : rights, representation, and participation -- New trends in women and politics in Africa -- Section IV. African women in conflict and peace. Women's roles and positions in African wars -- Theorizing African women and girls in combat : from national liberation to the war on terrorism -- Gendered experiences of refugee and displaced women in Africa -- Women, terrorist groups, and terrorism in Africa -- Women, terrorism, and media : framing of Chibok and Dapchi schoolgirls' abduction stories in television -- Women and peace processes in Africa -- Women and peacebuilding in postconflict African states -- Women and peace education in Africa -- African women and peace education : field experiences -- DDR and the education of ex-combatant girls in Africa : a gendered analysis -- Women and transitional justice processes in Africa -- Women and transitional justice in Africa and Latin America -- Conflict-related sexual violence and women's rights : Africa in global context -- The United Nations and African women in peace, security, and governance -- UNSCR 1325 and African women in conflict and peace -- Section V. Women and gender-based violence (GBV) in Africa. Violence against women in North Africa -- Sexual offences in Africa -- Violence against LGBT(QI) persons in Africa -- Girls, sexuality, and gender-based violence in Africa -- Female genital mutilation/cutting in Africa : patriarchy and policy -- Women in African prisons -- Women, trafficking, and forced prostitution in Africa -- Non-state actors and violence against women in Africa -- Violence and women's health in Africa -- Alternative rites of passage and other responses to female genital mutilation/cutting in Africa -- The response to gender-based violence in Africa |
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Volume 2. Section VI. (Re)writing African women's histories. A history of African women from origins to 800 CE : bold grandmas, powerful queens, audacious entrepreneurs -- A history of African women from 800 CE to 1900 : bold grandmas, powerful queens, audacious entrepreneurs -- African women and the Atlantic slave trade -- Women in pre-colonial Africa : East Africa -- Women in pre-colonial Africa : West Africa -- Women in pre-colonial Africa : Southern Africa -- Women in colonial East Africa -- North African women and colonialism -- Women and colonialism in West Africa -- Women and colonialism : Southern Africa -- Women and colonialism across Africa -- Writing Nigerian women's political history -- Writing Nigerian women in the economy, education, and literature -- Gender, authority, and identity in African history : hierarchy, cosmic families, and lifestages -- Colonialism and gender in Africa : a critical history -- Women, colonial resistance, and decolonization : challenging African histories -- African women's letters as intellectual history and decolonial knowledge production -- Challenges of writing African women's histories -- Section VII. Women's movements in Africa. Women, social movements and political activism in North Africa -- The Arab Spring and women's movements in North Africa -- Rural women farmers' grassroots networks in Africa -- African women's movements and struggles over land -- LGBTI+ organizations in Southern and East Africa : fighting for equal rights -- LGBTI+ organizations in West Africa and North Africa : fighting for equal rights -- The "subalternity" of women in social movements and African politics -- The African diaspora and women's struggles in Africa -- The United Nations and African women's movements -- African women's movements and the African Union -- Section VIII. African women and development processes. African women's formal and informal labor : a comparative history -- Women and community development in rural Africa : deconstructing dominant narratives -- Women, land, and law in Africa -- Women, entrepreneurship, and economic development in Africa -- Women in agriculture in contemporary Africa -- African women in university management and leadership -- African women, technology, and ICTs -- Women, poverty, and empowerment in Africa -- Women's empowerment and women's health in Africa -- Women and development policies in African states -- Women, climate change, and sustainable development in Africa -- Gender budgeting in Africa -- Gender and migration in North Africa -- Women, migration, and development in Africa -- African diaspora women and African development -- African women and globalization |
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Volume 3. Section IX. African women's creativity, arts, and performance. Women and art in Africa : a historical view -- African women in African arts : making art for change -- African women in African arts : activists, cultural brokers, and boundary breakers -- African women writers -- Women and North African literatures -- African women and African oral literatures -- African women and theatre for development -- Nollywood and women -- African women hip-hop artists representing transnational identities : Y3 Fr3 Me rebel -- African women in sports : a critical analysis of selected media discourses -- African women's internet discourses -- Women, social media, and culture in Africa -- African women and the mass media -- Section X. African women, culture, and society. African women traditional chiefs and rulers -- Women, Islam, and the State in North Africa -- Women, Islam, and the law : womanism, Shari'a, and human rights in Africa -- Repesentations of North African women and African Islamic religion in El Saadawi's Zeina -- Women and Christianity in Africa -- Women and African traditional religion -- Womb wisdom to cosmic wisdom : women and African spiritualities in Africa and the diaspora -- The role of religion and faith actors in violence against women and girls in Africa : challenges, tensions, and promise -- Gender, motherhood, and parenting in Africa -- Women in African marriages : voice, visibility, and value -- Widows, widowhood, and society in Africa -- African queer women tackling erasure and ostracization : love, lust, and lived experience -- Gender, disability, and humanity rights in Africa -- African women and HIV and AIDS -- Girls' sexuality between agency and vulnerability -- African young women and alcohol and substance abuse -- Women and girls' education in Africa : changes and continuities -- Women in universities in Africa -- Girl-child, health, and education in Africa -- Women in pastoral societies in Africa -- Gender, migration, and African cultures -- African women, culture, and society in contemporary African novels -- Culture, rights, and African women's futures -- Section XI. Conclusion. Conclusion: Charting future paths for African women's studies |
| Summary |
This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It unearths, critiques, reviews, analyses, theorizes, synthesizes and evaluates African women's historical, social, political, economic, local and global lives and experiences with a view to decolonizing the corpus. This Handbook questions the gendered roles and positions of African women and the structures, institutions, and processes of policy, politics, and knowledge production that continually construct, deconstruct, and reconstruct African women and the study of them. Contributors offer a consistent emphasis on debunking erroneous and misleading myths about African women's roles and positions, bringing their previously marginalized stories to relief, and ultimately re-writing their histories. Thus, this Handbook enlarges the scope of the field, challenges its orthodoxies, and engenders new subjects, theories, and approaches. This reference work includes, to the greatest extent possible, the voices of African women themselves as writers of their own stories. The detailed, rigorous and up-to-date analyses in the work represent a variety of theoretical, methodological, and transdisciplinary approaches. This reference work will prove vital in charting new directions for the study of African women, and will reverberate in future studies, generating new debates and engendering further interest |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
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Print version record |
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Women -- Africa -- Social conditions
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Women -- Political activity -- Africa
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Women -- Africa -- Economic conditions
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Women -- Africa -- Social life and customs
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Women -- Economic conditions
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Women -- Political activity
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Women -- Social conditions
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Women -- Social life and customs
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Africa
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Yacob-Haliso, Olajumoke, editor
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Falola, Toyin, editor
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| ISBN |
9783030280994 |
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3030280993 |
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