アフリカにおけるジェンダー Africa after Gender?

Cole, Catherine M. (EDT)/ Manuh, Takyiwaa (EDT)/ Miescher, Stephan F. (EDT)

Indiana University Press（2007/02発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 344 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9780253218773
• DDC分類 305.3096

基本説明

What is the meaning of gender in an African context?

Full Description

Gender is one of the most productive, dynamic, and vibrant areas of Africanist research today. But what is the meaning of gender in an African context? Why does gender usually connote women? Why has gender taken hold in Africa when feminism hasn't? Is gender yet another Western construct that has been applied to Africa however ill-suited and riddled with assumptions? Africa After Gender? looks at Africa now that gender has come into play to consider how the continent, its people, and the term itself have changed. Leading Africanist historians, anthropologists, literary critics, and political scientists move past simple dichotomies, entrenched debates, and polarizing identity politics to present an evolving discourse of gender. They show gender as an applied rather than theoretical tool and discuss themes such as the performance of sexuality, lesbianism, women's political mobilization, the work of gendered NGOs, and the role of masculinity in a gendered world. For activists, students, and scholars, this book reveals a rich and cross-disciplinary view of the status of gender in Africa today.
Contributors are Hussaina J. Abdullah, Nwando Achebe, Susan Andrade, Eileen Boris, Catherine M. Cole, Paulla A. Ebron, Eileen Julien, Lisa A. Lindsay, Adrienne MacIain, Takyiwaa Manuh, Stephan F. Miescher, Helen Mugambi, Gay Seidman, Sylvia Tamale, Bridget Teboh, Lynn M. Thomas, and Nana Wilson-Tagoe.

Contents

Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: When Was Gender?Stephan F. Miescher, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Catherine M. Cole
Part 1. Volatile Genders and New African Women
1. Out of the Closet: Unveiling Sexuality Discourses in UgandaSylvia Tamale
Postscript compiled by Bianca A. Murillo
2. Institutional Dilemmas: Representation versus Mobilization in the South African Gender CommissionGay W. Seidman
3. Gendered Reproduction: Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies in African HistoryLynn M. Thomas
4. Dialoging WomenNwando Achebe and Bridget Teboh
Part 2. Activism and Public Space
5. Rioting Women and Writing Women: Gender, Class, and the Public Sphere in AfricaSusan Z. Andrade
6. Let Us Be United in Purpose: Variations on Gender Relations in the Yorùbá Popular TheatreAdrienne MacIain
7. Doing Gender Work in GhanaTakyiwaa Manuh
8. Women as Emergent Actors: A Survey of New Women's Organizations in Nigeria since the 1990sHussaina J. Abdullah
Part 3. Gender Enactments, Gendered Perceptions
9. Constituting Subjects through Performative ActsPaulla A. Ebron
10. Gender After Africa!Eileen Boris
11. When a Man Loves a Woman: Gender and National Identity in Wole Soyinkas's Death and the King's Horseman and Mariama Bâ's Scarlet SongEileen Julien
12. Representing Culture and Identity: African Women Writers and National CulturesNana Wilson-Tagoe
Part 4. Masculinity, Misogyny, and Seniority
13. Working with Gender: The Emergence of the "Male Breadwinner" in Colonial Southwestern NigeriaLisa A. Lindsay
14. Becoming an Opanyin: Elders, Gender, and Masculinities in Ghana since the Nineteenth CenturyStephan F. Miescher
15. "Give Her a Slap to Warm Her Up": Post-Gender Theory and Ghana's Popular CultureCatherine M. Cole
16. The "Post-Gender" Question in African StudiesHelen Nabasuta Mugambi
The Production of Gendered Knowledge in the Digital Age
Resources for Further Reading
List of Contributors
Index