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1 online resource (xx, 251 pages) |
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Routledge African studies ; 27 |
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Routledge African studies ; 27.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; List of tables; Acknowledgements; List of contributors; Preface; Introduction; 1. Addressing the epistemic marginalization of women in African philosophy and building a culture of conversations; Introduction; African philosophy in brief: what it is, what it is not; How African philosophy marginalizes women: epistemic necessity as the last frontier; Building a culture of conversations; Conclusion; Note; References; 2. Henry Odera Oruka and the female sage: Re-evaluating the nature of sagacity |
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Introduction: philosophic sagacity and the marginalization of the African female; Oruka on the nature and possibility of an African philosophy; Odera Oruka's method; Distinguishing the philosophic sage from the folk sage; The invisible and inferior female sage; Peris Njuhi Muthoni: Oruka's lone female sage; The way forward: beyond male/female identity; Broadening our sources of sagacity: sophia and phronesis; Conclusion; Notes; References; 3. Women and ubuntu: Does ubuntu condone the subordination of women?; Introduction; What is ubuntu?; Ubuntu as oppressive to women? |
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Response to Oyowe and Yurkivska: gender complementarity according to Nkiru Nzegwu; Conclusion: some remaining issues with the ubuntu view; Notes; References; 4. African philosophy, its questions, the place and the role of women and its disconnect with its world; Introduction; Debunking the assumption of the blanket process of evolution of African philosophy; African philosophy and African world-view; The Yoruba African world-view: a hermeneutic analysis; Roadmap for inclusion; Conclusion; References; 5. Dialogues and alliances: Positions of women in African philosophy; Introduction |
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Autonomous spaces for dialogue; Possibilities and pitfalls of intercultural dialogue; Intersectionality and alliances; Beyond categories: allowing space for hybridity; Conclusion; Note; References; 6. Dealing with the trauma of a loss: Interrogating the feminine experience of coping with a spouse's death in African traditions; Introduction; The spouse's death as traumatic experience; Understanding death in African traditions; Coping with the loss of a spouse in African traditions: the woman's experience; A patriarchal epistemology of ignorance and the perpetuation of harmful ideologies |
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Overcoming the epistemology of ignorance; Conclusion; Notes; References; 7. Human rights discourse: Friend or foe of African women's sexual freedoms?; Introduction; Paradox keeps human rights alive; Sexual freedom in the postcolony; Notes; References; 8 African philosophy's injustice against women; Introduction; The dominance of males in philosophy; African philosophy as a site of counter-hegemony; African philosophy's injustice against women; Conclusion; Reference; 9. Conceptual decolonization in African philosophy: Views on women; Introduction: the meaning of African philosophy |
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Colonization vs. decolonization |
| Summary |
"This book examines the underexplored notion of epistemic marginalization of women in the African intellectual place. Women's issues are still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies and academics in sub-Saharan Africa. The entrenched traditional world-views which privilege men over women make it difficult for the modern day challenges posed by the neglect of the feminine epistemic perspective, to become obvious. Contributors address these issues from both theoretical and practical perspectives, demonstrating what philosophy could do to ameliorate the epistemic marginalization of women, as well as ways in which African philosophy exacerbates this marginalization. Philosophy is supposed to teach us how to lead the good life in all its ramifications; why is it failing in this duty in Africa where the issue of womens epistemic vision is concerned? The chapters raise feminist agitations to a new level; beginning from the regular campaigns for various womens rights and reaching a climax in an epistemic struggle in which the knowledge-controlling power to create, acquire, evaluate, regulate and disseminate is proposed as the last frontier of feminism."--Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 12, 2018) |
| Subject |
Philosophy, African -- History -- 21st century
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Philosophy -- Africa -- History -- 21st century
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Feminist theory -- Africa
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Women philosophers -- Africa
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Women -- Africa -- Social conditions
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PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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Feminist theory
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Philosophy
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Philosophy, African
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Women philosophers
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Women -- Social conditions
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Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Chimakonam, Jonathan O., editor.
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Du Toit, Louise, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781351120098 |
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1351120093 |
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9781351120081 |
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1351120085 |
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9781351120104 |
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1351120107 |
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