"Wicked" women and the reconfiguration of gender in Africa / / edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl A. McCurdy |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Portsmouth, N.H., : Heinemann |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (xv, 325 p. ) : ill., maps ; |
Disciplina | 305.4/096 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HodgsonDorothy Louise
McCurdySheryl <1956-> |
Collana | Social history of Africa |
Soggetto topico |
Women - Africa - Social conditions
Sex role - Africa |
ISBN |
1-62820-127-4
0-325-07005-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996248152903316 |
Portsmouth, N.H., : Heinemann | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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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 |
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 |
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 and citizenship in the global age / / edited by Laroussi Amri, Ramola Ramtohul = Genre et citoyenneté à l'ère de la mondialisation / sous la direction, Laroussi Amri, Ramola Ramtohul ; cover design, Ibrahima Fofana |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dakar, [Senegal] : , : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (350 p.) |
Disciplina | 355.009 |
Collana | Codesria book series |
Soggetto topico |
Citizenship - Africa
Sex role - Africa |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN | 2-86978-617-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910463618103321 |
Dakar, [Senegal] : , : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Gender and citizenship in the global age / / edited by Laroussi Amri, Ramola Ramtohul = Genre et citoyenneté à l'ère de la mondialisation / sous la direction, Laroussi Amri, Ramola Ramtohul ; cover design, Ibrahima Fofana |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dakar, [Senegal] : , : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (350 p.) |
Disciplina | 355.009 |
Collana | Codesria book series |
Soggetto topico |
Citizenship - Africa
Sex role - Africa |
ISBN | 2-86978-617-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910788005403321 |
Dakar, [Senegal] : , : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Gender and citizenship in the global age / / edited by Laroussi Amri, Ramola Ramtohul = Genre et citoyenneté à l'ère de la mondialisation / sous la direction, Laroussi Amri, Ramola Ramtohul ; cover design, Ibrahima Fofana |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dakar, [Senegal] : , : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (350 p.) |
Disciplina | 355.009 |
Collana | Codesria book series |
Soggetto topico |
Citizenship - Africa
Sex role - Africa |
ISBN | 2-86978-617-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817611403321 |
Dakar, [Senegal] : , : CODESRIA, Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Genre et savoirs : Pratiques et innovations rurales au Sud / / Hélène Guétat-Bernard, Magalie Saussey |
Autore | Alhassoumi Hadizatou |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Marseille, : IRD Éditions, 2017 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (291-[VIII] p.) |
Disciplina | 305.42096 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
AuclairLaurent
BidouJean-Etienne BonnassieuxAlain DroyIsabelle EliasMarlène GraniéAnne-Marie GuérinIsabelle Guétat-BernardHélène HowardPatricia KorbéogoGabin MomsenJanet Henshall MonimartMarie OakleyEmily PascualCécile PionettiCarine RadcliffeSarah A RomagnyBruno SausseyMagalie SimenelRomain |
Soggetto topico |
Women in rural development - Africa
Technological innovations - Africa Rural development - Africa Sex role - Africa |
Soggetto non controllato |
pays en voie de développement
milieu rural rôles sociaux identité sexuelle genre femmes |
ISBN | 2-7099-2274-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
Altri titoli varianti | Genre et savoirs |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910340854103321 |
Alhassoumi Hadizatou | ||
Marseille, : IRD Éditions, 2017 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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In search of equality : women, law and society in Africa / / edited by Stefanie Röhrs and Dee Smythe ; with Annie Hsieh and Monica de Souza ; project manager, Glenda Younge ; editor, Daphne Burger ; proofreader, Ricky Rontsch ; typesetter, Stefanie Krieg-Elliott ; cover designer, Monique Cleghorn ; cover photograph, Rauri Alcock |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cape Town, South Africa : , : University Of Cape Town Press, , 2014 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (273 pages) |
Disciplina | 323.34096 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
RöhrsStefanie <1977->
SmytheDee HsiehAnnie SouzaMonica de YoungeGlenda BurgerDaphne RöntschRicky Krieg-ElliottStefanie CleghornMonique AlcockRauri |
Soggetto topico |
Women's rights - Africa
Women - Violence against - Africa Sex discrimination against women - Africa Sex role - Africa |
ISBN | 1-77582-151-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto |
Front cover; Title page; Imprint page; Table of contents; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Acronyms and abbreviations; Table of cases; Table of legislation; Introduction: In search of equality: Women, law and society in Africa; 1 Discriminatory laws; 2 Legal pluralism; 3 Access to justice and the absence of protection; 4 Strategic litigation for women's rights; 5 Conclusion; Endnotes; References; Chapter 1: Challenges in litigation on gender issues in Namibia; 1 Introduction; 2 Challenges; 2.1 Lengthy court cases; 2.2 Settlement or abandonment of cases
2.3 Jurisprudence overtaken by law reform2.4 Difficulties in enforcing judgments; 2.5 Mixed case outcomes; 2.6 Successful litigation; 3 Strategies; 3.1 Careful case selection; 3.2 Combining litigation and advocacy; 3.3 Exploring different avenues for litigation; 4 Conclusion; Endnotes; References; Chapter 2: Constitutionalism and the law of inheritance: Recent experiences from Uganda; 1 Introduction; 2 The legal framework of succession and inheritance; 2.1 Customary laws and inheritance; 2.2 Statutory inheritance laws in Uganda; 3 Implications of the Succession Act for inheritance 3.1 Joint ownership3.2 Women in a separated relationship; 3.3 Women in cohabitation relationships; 3.4 Women in polygamous marriages; 3.5 Succession law and women without children; 4 Recent challenges to the law of intestate succession; 4.1 Law and Advocacy for Women in Uganda: The 2007 case; 4.2 Limitations of the Law and Advocacy judgment; 5 Alternative venues: The potential of community courts; 6 Advocacy education and the Registration of Titles Act; 7 Conclusion; Endnotes; References; Chapter 3: Gender equality in customary marriages in South Africa; 1 Introduction; 2 Background 3 International legal framework and the South African Constitution4 Implications of the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act (RCMA); 5 Essential requirements for a valid customary marriage; 5.1 Definition of customary law; 5.2 Status of customary marriages; 5.3 Entering into marriage; 5.4 Consent to a customary marriage; 5.5 Civil marriages during the subsistence of a customary marriage; 6 Registration of a customary marriage; 7 Consequences of a customary marriage; 7.1 Equal status of spouses; 8 Proprietary consequences of customary marriages; 9 Dissolution of a customary marriage 10 Gains and losses11 Conclusion; Endnotes; References; Chapter 4: Enforcing women's rights in Malawi; 1 Introduction; 2 Legislative protection of women's rights in Malawi; 3 Critical issues in women's rights litigation in Malawi; 3.1 Employment-related rights; 3.2 Child custody rights; 3.3 Inheritance rights and property-grabbing; 3.4 Right to citizenship; 4 Enforcing women's rights in Malawi; 5 Conclusion; Endnotes; References; Chapter 5: The justice system and women's rights in Côte d'Ivoire; 1 Introduction; 2 Quality of life for women in Côte d'Ivoire; 3 The legislative framework 3.1 Constitutional law |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910829591103321 |
Cape Town, South Africa : , : University Of Cape Town Press, , 2014 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Masculinities in contemporary Africa [[electronic resource] =] : La masculinté en Afrique contemporaine / / edited by Egodi Uchendu |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Dakar, Senegal, : Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (278 p.) |
Altri autori (Persone) | UchenduEgodi |
Collana | Codesria gender series |
Soggetto topico |
Men - Africa
Masculinity - Africa Sex role - Africa |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-90149-4
9786612901492 2-86978-412-0 2-86978-368-X 2-86978-286-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: are African males men? sketching African masculinities / Egodi Uchendu -- Studying men in Africa critically / Kopano Ratele -- Masculinity and ritual violence: a study of bullfighting among the Luhyia of Western Kenya / Egara Kabaji -- The masculine discursive construction of rape in the Kenyan press / James Ogola Onyango -- La masculinite au Maroc entre traditions, modernite et int́grisme / Abdessamad Dialmy -- La formation la masculinite entre la tradition et la modernite (le cas du sud du Togo) / Svetlana Koudolo -- White men: an exploration of intersections of masculinity, whiteness and colonialism and the engagement of counter-hegemonic projects / Claire Kelly -- L'etat moderne africain et le patriarcat public / Ibrahim Mouiche -- Men's role in persistent rural poverty: lessons from Kenya / Wanjiku Chiuri -- Student fathers and the challenge to masculinities in Kenyan universities / Charity Mwangi-Chemnjor -- The interaction of gender and migration: household relations in rural and urban Mozambique / Inês M. Raimundo -- 'Lifting the cloak on manhood': coverage of Xhosa male circumcision in the South African press / Lilian N. Ndangam -- Ordre masculin, violences politiques et initiatives feminines pour la paix au Congo Brazzaville de 1991 à 1999 / Koutouma Nsona -- Corps et beaute : representations et enjeux. socio-anthropologie de la construction binaire: masculin/feminin. Le cas de l'etudiante algerienne / Zahia Benabdallah. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910456734003321 |
Dakar, Senegal, : Council for the Development of Economic and Social Research in Africa | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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