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Africa after gender? [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan F. Miescher
| Africa after gender? [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan F. Miescher |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (339 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.3096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ColeCatherine M
ManuhTakyiwaa MiescherStephan |
| Soggetto topico |
Sex role - Africa
Sex role - Research - Africa |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
9786612072970
1-282-07297-8 0-253-11218-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 Theatre
7. 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 seniority 13. 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; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910457616703321 |
| Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa after gender? [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan F. Miescher
| Africa after gender? [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan F. Miescher |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (339 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.3096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ColeCatherine M
ManuhTakyiwaa MiescherStephan |
| Soggetto topico |
Sex role - Africa
Sex role - Research - Africa |
| ISBN |
9786612072970
1-282-07297-8 0-253-11218-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 Theatre
7. 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 seniority 13. 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; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910784671303321 |
| Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Africa after gender? [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan F. Miescher
| Africa after gender? [[electronic resource] /] / edited by Catherine M. Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan F. Miescher |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2007 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (339 p.) |
| Disciplina | 305.3096 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ColeCatherine M
ManuhTakyiwaa MiescherStephan |
| Soggetto topico |
Sex role - Africa
Sex role - Research - Africa |
| ISBN |
9786612072970
1-282-07297-8 0-253-11218-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
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 Theatre
7. 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 seniority 13. 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; Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910807220203321 |
| Bloomington, IN, : Indiana University Press, c2007 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Gender, imperialism and global exchanges / / edited by Stephan F. Miescher, Michele Mitchell and Naoko Shibusawa
| Gender, imperialism and global exchanges / / edited by Stephan F. Miescher, Michele Mitchell and Naoko Shibusawa |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 341 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Disciplina | 305.3 |
| Collana | Gender and History Special Issue Book Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Sex role - History
Imperialism - History |
| ISBN |
1-119-05218-1
1-119-05217-3 1-119-05219-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges; CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges; Labour; Commodities; Fashioning politics; Mobility and activism; Conclusion; Notes; PART I Labour; 1 The Sexual Politics of Imperial Expansion: Eunuchs and Indirect Colonial Rule in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North India; The khwajasarais of early modern Awadh; Family, sexuality and indirect colonial rule; Eunuch labour and the sexual politics of imperial expansion; The making of a Muslim poor: the impacts of colonial modernity on khwajasarais; Conclusion; Notes
2 Remaking Anglo-Indian Men: Agricultural Labour as Remedy in the British Empire, 1908-38 The problem; First migrations; Early experiences; Persistence of a scheme; Conclusion; Notes; 3 'Robot Farmers' and Cosmopolitan Workers: Technological Masculinity and Agricultural Development in the French Soudan (Mali), 1945-68; The beginnings of the Office du Niger; The turn to mechanised agriculture, 1945-68; 'The Office has only to do with men': notions of masculine labour at the Office du Niger; Neither robots nor 'paysannat noir'; The cosmopolitan workers' Office du Niger; Technological men; Notes PART II Commodities 4 Pursuing Her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700-60; Jamaica: re-configuring the gendered social hierarchy; Colonial women in a globalising market; Gender, race and slaveholding; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Fashioning their Place: Dress and Global Imagination in Imperial Sudan; Historic trade routes and domestic ties; Transformation under imperial rule; Satellite dreams; A living archive; Notes; 6 The Transnational Homophile Movement and the Development of Domesticity in Mexico City's Homosexual Community, 1930-70; Notes PART III Fashioning Politics 7 Dressed for Success: Hegemonic Masculinity, Elite Men and Westernisation in Iran, c. 1900-40; Notes; 8 'It Gave Us Our Nationality': US Education, the Politics of Dress and Transnational Filipino Student Networks, 1901-45; Imperial education and the politics of dress in the colonial Philippines; Gendering nationalism, nationalising gender abroad in the United States; Conclusion; Notes; 9 'A Life of Make-Believe': Being Boy Scouts and 'Playing Indian' in British Malaya (1910-42); Setting, actors, sources 'Making manly (mimic) men'? Colonial proscriptions of Scouting in Malaya(Other) imperial play ethics: Malayan Scouts at 'play'; Epilogue; Notes; 10 The Tank Driver who Ran with Poodles: US Visions of Israeli Soldiers and the Cold War Liberal Consensus, 1958-79; Responsible masculinity: 1958-67; Enviable masculinity: 1967-73; Spartan masculinity: 1973-79; Conclusion; Notes; PART IV Mobility and Activism; 11 Marta Vergara, Popular-Front Pan-American Feminism and the Transnational Struggle for Working Women's Rights in the 1930's; Marta Vergara's feminist evolution Popular-Front Pan-American feminism at the Buenos Aires Peace Conferences |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910131151103321 |
| Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Gender, imperialism and global exchanges / / edited by Stephan F. Miescher, Michele Mitchell and Naoko Shibusawa
| Gender, imperialism and global exchanges / / edited by Stephan F. Miescher, Michele Mitchell and Naoko Shibusawa |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (ix, 341 pages) : illustrations, portraits |
| Disciplina | 305.3 |
| Collana | Gender and History Special Issue Book Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Sex role - History
Imperialism - History |
| ISBN |
1-119-05218-1
1-119-05217-3 1-119-05219-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges; CONTENTS; NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS; Introduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges; Labour; Commodities; Fashioning politics; Mobility and activism; Conclusion; Notes; PART I Labour; 1 The Sexual Politics of Imperial Expansion: Eunuchs and Indirect Colonial Rule in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North India; The khwajasarais of early modern Awadh; Family, sexuality and indirect colonial rule; Eunuch labour and the sexual politics of imperial expansion; The making of a Muslim poor: the impacts of colonial modernity on khwajasarais; Conclusion; Notes
2 Remaking Anglo-Indian Men: Agricultural Labour as Remedy in the British Empire, 1908-38 The problem; First migrations; Early experiences; Persistence of a scheme; Conclusion; Notes; 3 'Robot Farmers' and Cosmopolitan Workers: Technological Masculinity and Agricultural Development in the French Soudan (Mali), 1945-68; The beginnings of the Office du Niger; The turn to mechanised agriculture, 1945-68; 'The Office has only to do with men': notions of masculine labour at the Office du Niger; Neither robots nor 'paysannat noir'; The cosmopolitan workers' Office du Niger; Technological men; Notes PART II Commodities 4 Pursuing Her Profits: Women in Jamaica, Atlantic Slavery and a Globalising Market, 1700-60; Jamaica: re-configuring the gendered social hierarchy; Colonial women in a globalising market; Gender, race and slaveholding; Conclusion; Notes; 5 Fashioning their Place: Dress and Global Imagination in Imperial Sudan; Historic trade routes and domestic ties; Transformation under imperial rule; Satellite dreams; A living archive; Notes; 6 The Transnational Homophile Movement and the Development of Domesticity in Mexico City's Homosexual Community, 1930-70; Notes PART III Fashioning Politics 7 Dressed for Success: Hegemonic Masculinity, Elite Men and Westernisation in Iran, c. 1900-40; Notes; 8 'It Gave Us Our Nationality': US Education, the Politics of Dress and Transnational Filipino Student Networks, 1901-45; Imperial education and the politics of dress in the colonial Philippines; Gendering nationalism, nationalising gender abroad in the United States; Conclusion; Notes; 9 'A Life of Make-Believe': Being Boy Scouts and 'Playing Indian' in British Malaya (1910-42); Setting, actors, sources 'Making manly (mimic) men'? Colonial proscriptions of Scouting in Malaya(Other) imperial play ethics: Malayan Scouts at 'play'; Epilogue; Notes; 10 The Tank Driver who Ran with Poodles: US Visions of Israeli Soldiers and the Cold War Liberal Consensus, 1958-79; Responsible masculinity: 1958-67; Enviable masculinity: 1967-73; Spartan masculinity: 1973-79; Conclusion; Notes; PART IV Mobility and Activism; 11 Marta Vergara, Popular-Front Pan-American Feminism and the Transnational Struggle for Working Women's Rights in the 1930's; Marta Vergara's feminist evolution Popular-Front Pan-American feminism at the Buenos Aires Peace Conferences |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910812167503321 |
| Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2015 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||