Full Description
Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, Struggle and Change is the first book to bring together the topics of language and gender, African languages, and gender in African contexts, and it does so in a descriptive, explanatory and critical way. Including fascinating new work and new, often challenging data from Botswana, Chad, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this collection looks at some 'traditional' uses of language in relation to the gender of its speakers and the gendered nature of the languages themselves; it also identifies and explores social change in terms of both gender and sexuality, as reflected in and constructed by language and discourse. The contributions to this volume are accessibly written and will be of interest to students and established academics working on African sociolinguistics and discourse, as well as those whose interest is language, gender and sexuality.
Contents
1. Acknowledgements; 2. Gender and language in sub-Saharan Africa: A valid epistemology? (by Atanga, Lilian Lem); 3. Part 1. Gender and linguistic description; 4. Chapter 1. Issues of language and gender in iweto marriage as practised by the Kamba in Kenya (by Kitetu, Catherine Wawasi); 5. Chapter 2. Language, gender and age(ism) in Setswana (by Bagwasi, Mompoloki Mmangaka); 6. Chapter 3. Variation with gender in the tonal speech varieties of Kera (Chadic) (by Pearce, Mary); 7. Part 2. Public settings and gendered language use; 8. Chapter 4. Language, gender and social construction in a pre-school in Gaborone (by Letsholo, Rose); 9. Chapter 5. Variation in address forms for Nigerian married and unmarried women in the workplace (by Mustapha, Abolaji S.); 10. Part 3. Mediated masculinities and femininities; 11. Chapter 6. A new South African man?: Beer, masculinity and social change (by Milani, Tommaso M.); 12. Chapter 7. The 'Tinto' image in contemporary Tswana songs: Masculinities in crisis? (by Ellece, Sibonile Edith); 13. Chapter 8.Language and gender in popular music in Botswana (by Nhlekisana, Rosaleen O.B.); 14. Part 4. Gendered struggles and change; 15. Chapter 9. Sex discourses and the construction of gender identity in Sesotho: A case study of police interviews of rape/sexual assault victims (by Thetela, Puleng Hanong); 16. Chapter 10. Student Pidgin: A masculine code encroached on by young women (by Dako, Kari); 17. Chapter 11. Gendered linguistic choices among isiZulu-speaking women in contemporary South Africa (by Rudwick, Stephanie); 18. Chapter 12. Homophobic language and linguistic resistance in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (by Msibi, Thabo); 19. Chapter 13. "I cannot be blamed for my own assault": Ghanaian media discourses on the context of blame in Mzbel's sexual assaults (by Diabah, Grace); 20. Part 5. Epilogue; 21. African feminism? (by Atanga, Lilian Lem); 22. Gender, sexuality and language in African contexts: Bibliography; 24. Index
