05084nam 2200745 a 450 99624801670331620221108012535.02027/heb04122(CKB)1000000000548281(dli)HEB04122(SSID)ssj0000084727(PQKBManifestationID)11120355(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000084727(PQKBWorkID)10176253(PQKB)10195759(MiU)MIU01000000000000005845482(EXLCZ)99100000000054828120050603d2005 uy 0engurmnummmmuuuutxtccrReadings in gender in Africa /edited by Andrea CornwallBloomington Indiana University Press ;Oxford James Currey20051 online resource (vii, 247 p. )Published in association with the International African Institute.0-253-34517-0 0-85255-871-6 Includes bibliographical references and index.Western perceptions of African women in the 19th & early 20th centuries /Josephine Beoku-Betts --Status of women in indigenous African societies /Niara Sudarkasa --Mapping African feminisms /Obioma Nnaemeka --Down to fundamentals : women-centered hearth-holds in rural west Africa /Felicia A. Ekejiuba --Male lesbians & other queer notions in Hausa /Rudolf P. Gaudio --Noise over camouflaged polygamy, colonial morality taxation, & a woman-naming crisis in Belgian Africa /Nancy Rose Hunt --Fork up and smile : marketing, colonial knowledge, & the female subject in Zimbabwe /Timothy Burke --Worries of the heart : widowed mothers, daughters, & masculinities in Maragoli, western Kenya, 1940-60 /Kenda Mutongi --School fees & the marriage process for Mende girls in Sierra Leone /Caroline Bledsoe --"No romance without finance" : commodities, masculinities, & relationships amongst Kampalan students /David Mills & Richard Ssewakiryanga --"Dangerous" love : reflections on violence among Xhosa township youth /Katherine Wood & Rachel Jewkes --Female farming in anthropology & African history /Jane I. Guyer --"Gone to their second husbands" : marital metaphors & conjugal contracts in the Gambia's female garden sector /Richard A. Schroeder --Which family? : problems in the reconstruction of the history of the family as an economic & cultural unit /Megan Vaughan.Women "entrepreneurs" of early Nairobi /Janet M. Bujra --Baganda women's night market activities /Nakanyike B. Musisi --Shunting between masculine ideals : Nigerian railwaymen in the colonial era /Lisa A. Lindsay --Rebels or status seekers? : women as spirit mediums in east Africa /Iris Berger --Reflections on slavery, seclusion, & female labor in the Maradi region of Niger in the 19th & 20th centuries /Barbara Cooper --Gender, culture, & capitalism : women & the remaking of Islamic tradition in a Sudanese village /Victorial Bernal --Devout domesticity? : a century of African women's Christianity in South Africa /Deborah Gaitskell --"Called to work for the kingdom of God" : the challenge of Presybyterian masculinities in colonial Ghana /Stephan F. Miescher --Iyalode in the traditional Yoruba political system /Bolanle Awe --Rounding up spinsters : gender chaos & unmarried women in colonial Asante /Jean Allmann --Tanganyikan nationalism as "women's work" : life histories, collective biography, & changing historiography /Susan Geiger --Gender & decolonization : a study of three women in west African public life /Laray Denzer --No shortcuts to power : constraints on women's political effectiveness in Uganda /Anne Marie Goetz --Women in movement : transformations in African political landscapes /Aili Mari Tripp.ACLS Humanities E-Book.Sex roleAfricaWomenAfricaSocial conditionsMasculinityAfricaSex (Psychology)Sex roleSocial conditionsAfricaWomenAfricaMasculinityAfricaGender & Ethnic StudiesHILCCSocial SciencesHILCCGender Studies & SexualityHILCCEthnic & Race StudiesHILCCSex roleWomenSocial conditions.MasculinitySex (Psychology)Sex roleSocial conditionsWomenMasculinityGender & Ethnic StudiesSocial SciencesGender Studies & SexualityEthnic & Race Studies305.3096Cornwall Andrea1963-146711International African Institute.American Council of Learned Societies.MiUMiUBOOK996248016703316Readings in gender in Africa2855773UNISA