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Readings in gender in Africa / edited by Andrea Cornwall.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- ACLS Humanities E-Book.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Sex role--Africa.
- Sex role.
- Women--Africa--Social conditions.
- Women.
- Masculinity--Africa.
- Masculinity.
- Sex (Psychology).
- Sex role--Social conditions--Africa.
- Women--Africa.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (vii, 247 p. )
- Place of Publication:
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; Oxford : James Currey, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Contents:
- Western perceptions of African women in the 19th & early 20th centuries / Josephine Beoku-Betts
- Status of women in indigenous African societies / Niara Sudarkasa
- Mapping African feminisms / Obioma Nnaemeka
- Down to fundamentals : women-centered hearth-holds in rural west Africa / Felicia A. Ekejiuba
- Male lesbians & other queer notions in Hausa / Rudolf P. Gaudio
- Noise over camouflaged polygamy, colonial morality taxation, & a woman-naming crisis in Belgian Africa / Nancy Rose Hunt
- Fork up and smile : marketing, colonial knowledge, & the female subject in Zimbabwe / Timothy Burke
- Worries of the heart : widowed mothers, daughters, & masculinities in Maragoli, western Kenya, 1940-60 / Kenda Mutongi
- School fees & the marriage process for Mende girls in Sierra Leone / Caroline Bledsoe
- "No romance without finance" : commodities, masculinities, & relationships amongst Kampalan students / David Mills & Richard Ssewakiryanga
- "Dangerous" love : reflections on violence among Xhosa township youth / Katherine Wood & Rachel Jewkes
- Female farming in anthropology & African history / Jane I. Guyer
- "Gone to their second husbands" : marital metaphors & conjugal contracts in the Gambia's female garden sector / Richard A. Schroeder
- Which family? : problems in the reconstruction of the history of the family as an economic & cultural unit / Megan Vaughan.
- Women "entrepreneurs" of early Nairobi / Janet M. Bujra
- Baganda women's night market activities / Nakanyike B. Musisi
- Shunting between masculine ideals : Nigerian railwaymen in the colonial era / Lisa A. Lindsay
- Rebels or status seekers? : women as spirit mediums in east Africa / Iris Berger
- Reflections on slavery, seclusion, & female labor in the Maradi region of Niger in the 19th & 20th centuries / Barbara Cooper
- Gender, culture, & capitalism : women & the remaking of Islamic tradition in a Sudanese village / Victorial Bernal
- Devout domesticity? : a century of African women's Christianity in South Africa / Deborah Gaitskell
- "Called to work for the kingdom of God" : the challenge of Presybyterian masculinities in colonial Ghana / Stephan F. Miescher
- Iyalode in the traditional Yoruba political system / Bolanle Awe
- Rounding up spinsters : gender chaos & unmarried women in colonial Asante / Jean Allmann
- Tanganyikan nationalism as "women's work" : life histories, collective biography, & changing historiography / Susan Geiger
- Gender & decolonization : a study of three women in west African public life / Laray Denzer
- No shortcuts to power : constraints on women's political effectiveness in Uganda / Anne Marie Goetz
- Women in movement : transformations in African political landscapes / Aili Mari Tripp.
- Notes:
- Published in association with the International African Institute.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb04122 hdl
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