03957nam 22006494a 450 991045761670332120200520144314.097866120729701-282-07297-80-253-11218-4(CKB)1000000000362305(EBL)297552(OCoLC)166229019(SSID)ssj0000099697(PQKBManifestationID)11113203(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000099697(PQKBWorkID)10014765(PQKB)10411039(MiAaPQ)EBC297552(MdBmJHUP)muse16737(Au-PeEL)EBL297552(CaPaEBR)ebr10178035(CaONFJC)MIL207297(EXLCZ)99100000000036230520060614d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrAfrica after gender?[electronic resource] /edited by Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan F. MiescherBloomington, IN Indiana University Pressc20071 online resource (339 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-21877-2 0-253-34816-1 Includes bibliographical references and index.Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: When Was Gender?; part one: volatile genders and new African women; 1. Out of the Closet: Unveiling Sexuality Discourses in Uganda; 2. Institutional Dilemmas: Representation versus Mobilization in the South African Gender Commission; 3. Gendered Reproduction: Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies in African History; 4. Dialoguing Women; part two: activism and public space; 5. Rioting Women and Writing Women: Gender, Class, and the Public Sphere in Africa; 6. Let Us Be United in Purpose: Variations on Gender Relations in the Yorùbá Popular Theatre7. Doing Gender Work in Ghana 8. Women as Emergent Actors: A Survey of New Women's Organizations in Nigeria since the 1990's; part three: gender enactments , gendered perceptions; 9. Constituting Subjects through Performative Acts; 10. Gender After Africa!; 11. When a Man Loves a Woman: Gender and National Identity in Wole Soyinkas's Death and the King's Horseman and Mariama Bâ's Scarlet Song; 12. Representing Culture and Identity: African Women Writers and National Cultures; part four: masculinity, misogyny, and seniority13. Working with Gender: The Emergence of the "Male Breadwinner" in Colonial Southwestern Nigeria 14. Becoming an Cpanyin: Elders, Gender, and Masculinities in Ghana since the Nineteenth Century; 15. "Give Her a Slap to Warm Her Up": Post-Gender Theory and Ghana's Popular Culture; 16. The "Post-Gender" Question in African Studies; The Production of Gendered Knowledge in the Digital Age; Resources for Further Reading; Contributors; IndexGender 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 itselfSex roleAfricaSex roleResearchAfricaElectronic books.Sex roleSex roleResearch305.3096Cole Catherine M962747Manuh Takyiwaa998319Miescher Stephan915272MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910457616703321Africa after gender2289840UNINA01251nam a22003611i 450099100403244970753620031001113025.0031111s1991 it a||||||||||||||||ita 8873801226b12509590-39ule_instARCHE-054286ExLDip.to LingueitaA.t.i. Arché s.c.r.l. Pandora Sicilia s.r.l.802.3Ford, Ford Madox193092C'erano uomini forti /Ford Madox Ford ; introduzione di Giovanna MochiParma :Pratiche,1991214 p. :ill. ;21 cmNuovi Saggi [Pratiche] ;67James, HenryGrane, StephenConrad, JosephLawrence, David HerbertHardy, ThomasWells, Herbert GeorgeTurgenev, IvanScrittoriRitrattiMochi, Giovanna.b1250959002-04-1413-11-03991004032449707536LE012 802.3 MAD12012000119444le012-E0.00-l- 00000.i1294734913-11-03Portraits from Life (poi Mightier than the Sword)38944UNISALENTOle01213-11-03ma -itait 01