| Description |
1 online resource (370 p.) |
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Routledge/UNISA Press Series |
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Routledge/UNISA Press series.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction: Towards developing feminist onomastics scholarship -- Chapter 1: Assessing the origin and perceptions of gendered Yoruba names -- Chapter 2: Gendered personal names in Yoruba and Chichewa -- Chapter 3: Setswana naming system: a gendered outlook -- Chapter 4: Gender stereotypes embedded in the labels of female subjects in a cross section of Zimbabwean music -- Chapter 5: Child naming and gender transformation in Gutu, Zimbabwe |
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Chapter 6: Beyond the name: Maniangas tribe ways of naming -- Chapter 7: Subculture socio-cultural nicknaming phenomena embedded in izindlavini of amaMpondo of the Eastern Cape -- Chapter 8: Re-considering the idiom 'If God is male, then the male is God' in light of selected Shona personal names among Reformed Church in Zimbabwe Christians in Chivi, Zimbabwe -- Chapter 9: Gender in the personal naming practices of the Shona in Zimbabwe: a socio-onomastic study -- Chapter 10: Xhosa female initiates' (intonjane) perceptions of meanings and values attached to their new names |
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Chapter 11: 'Get this straight, that is (not) my name', retorts a Xhosa woman -- Chapter 12: 'Hold the roof woman': exploring how the naming practices amongst isiXhosa speaking people contribute to a high divorce rate in South Africa -- Chapter 13: A feminist approach to the naming and circumstances of women in the Bible in relation to the naming of prominent Zulu women -- Chapter 14: An examination of names and gender in Ngugi's Devil on the cross and I will marry when I want -- Chapter 15: Gender shift in the use of the formative -no- in Zulu given names |
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Chapter 16: Fluid identities: naming and recognition in NoViolet Bulawayo's We need new names and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's Americanah -- Chapter 17: Queer(ing) onomastics: names and the construction of non-normative genders and sexualities in selected short stories in Queer Africa: New and collected fiction -- Chapter 18: A feminist interrogation of Owé gendered naming practices -- Chapter 19: The gendered nature of naming children among the Shona in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 20: Names of council beer halls and shebeens in Bulawayo: A feminist analysis |
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Chapter 21: Anti-women nomenclature: a selection of Zimbabwean ergonyms in family businesses -- Chapter 22: Interrogating the female politicians selected motherhood and wifehood label in the Zimbabwean print media: The case of the Financial Gazette 2002 -- Chapter 23: Rethinking the framing of women in the nation through 'self-naming' and 'self-definition' of female nationalists in Zimbabwe -- Chapter 24: Naming female characters to achieve a colonial agenda ('de-womanisation' of African womanhood): The case of Zvarevashe's novel Kurauone -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Sociology.
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sociology.
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Sociology
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Cekiso, Madoda
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| ISBN |
9781003812807 |
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1003812805 |
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