基本説明
A significant contribution to contemporary debates on 'globalization', culture and gender.
Full Description
This book makes a significant contribution to contemporary debates on "globalization," culture and gender. Focusing on intersections of the local and the global in Africa, contributors elucidate how translocal and transnational cultural currents are mediated by gender, how they reshape gender constructs and relations, and how they both manifest and impinge on relations of power.
Contents
Introduction PART ONE WOMEN NEOOTIATINO BOUNDARIES Crossing Boundaries/Changing Identities: Female Slaves, Male Strangers, and Their Descendants in Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Anlo, Diaspora African Repatriation: The Place of Diaspora Women in the Pan-African Nexus, Popular Music, Urban Society, and Changing Gender Relations in Kinshasa, Zaire (1950-1990), PART TWO OENDER AND THE MEDIATION OF MODERNITV "To Determine the Scale of Wants of the community": Gender and African consumption, Embodying the Contradictions of Modernity: Gender and spirit possession among Maasai in Tanzania; Islam, Transnational CUlture, and Modernity in Rural Sudan, PART THREE ENOENDERINO CULTURAL FLOWS, Dying Gods and Queen Mothers: The International Politics of Social Reproduction in Africa and Europe, Foreign Tongues and Domestic Bodies: Gendered Cultural Regions and Regionalized Sacred Flows, From story to song: Gender, Nationhood, and the Migratory Text, Traffic in Men, Postlude
