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7%OFFCatherine M Cole - Africa After Gender? - 9780253218773 - V9780253218773
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Africa After Gender?

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Description for Africa After Gender? Paperback. New essays on how gender works in Africa Editor(s): Cole, Catherine M.; Manuh, Takyiwaa; Miescher, Stephan F. Num Pages: 344 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1H; JFSJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 166 x 236 x 23. Weight in Grams: 496.

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 ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253218773
SKU
V9780253218773
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Catherine M Cole
Catherine M. Cole is Associate Professor of Dramatic Art and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Ghana's Concert Party Theatre (IUP, 2001). Takyiwaa Manuh is Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, and serves as Director of the Institute of African Studies. Stephan ... Read more

Reviews for Africa After Gender?
. . . this book is an important contribution to the location of knowledge production and the study of gender in Africa. The multi- and transdisciplinary essays emphasize in various pragmatic ways how local custodians immeasurably enrich collaborative scholarly research. Other essays offer fresh approaches to gender and gender performance while situating such enactments within a transcontinental global framework with ... Read more

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