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Record Nr.

UNINA9910416095303321

Titolo

The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Toyin Falola

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2020

ISBN

3-319-77030-6

Disciplina

305.4

Soggetti

Women

Africa—History

Ethnology—Africa

Africa—Politics and government

Culture

Gender

Identity politics

Women's Studies

African History

African Culture

African Politics

Culture and Gender

Politics and Gender

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It reviews and evaluates African women’s historical, cultural, social, political, economic, religious, private, local, and global lives and activities. Contributors offer a consistent emphasis on debunking erroneous and misleading myths about African women's roles and positions, bringing their previously marginalized stories to relief, and ultimately re-writing their histories.



This reference work includes, to the greatest extent possible, the voices of African women themselves as writers of their own stories. The detailed, rigorous and up-to-date analyses in the work represent a variety of theoretical, methodological, and transdisciplinary approaches. This reference work will prove vital in charting new directions for the study of African women, and will reverberate in future studies, generating new debates and engendering further interest.