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Subject(s)

• Sex role—Research—Africa [Browse]
• Women's studies—Africa [Browse]

Related name

• Arnfred, Signe [Browse]
• Codesria [Browse]

Series

• Codesria gender series ; 1. [More in this series]
• Codesria gender series ; 1 [More in this series]

Summary note

"A distinctive contribution of African feminist and gender scholarship has been a conscious effort to draw from, and simultaneously rethink, concepts, paradigms and methodologies that are often taken for granted both in conventional and in mainstream feminist scholarship. This with a view to enriching them with perspectives sensitive to the encounters, cultures, economic and socio-political predicaments that have shaped and been shaped by gender relations in Africa. This volume brings together essays by some of the leading names on gender studies in Africa, as a major contribution to these concerns. Situating themselves variously in relation to claims and counter claims on the universalisms and particularisms in African feminism and gender studies, the authors debate the relative (de)-merits of Eurocentrism, African epistemologies and cultures, colonial legacies, postcolonial realities, and other current dilemmas and challenges in understanding and articulating African feminism and gender research. Practiced and budding scholars should find this a fascinating read."--Book cover.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references.

Action note

Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)

Contents

• Conceptualising gender: Eurocentric foundations of feminist concepts and the challenge of African Epistemologies / Oyeronke Oyewumi
• Decolonising gender studies in Africa / Edward Manisiko Waswa Kisiang'ani
• African gender research and postcoloniality: legacies and challenges / Desiree Lewis
• An investigative framework for gender research in Africa in the new millennium / Filomina Chioma Steady
• 'Yorubas don't do gender': a critical review of Oyeronke Oyewumi's The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses / Bib Bakare-Yusuf
• Gender research in Africa: dilemmas and challenges as seen by an outsider / Signe Arnfred.

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ISBN

2869781385

LCCN

^^2004360742

OCLC

58965925

RCP

H - S

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