Author :
Publisher :
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 37,61 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Sex role
ISBN :
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The Invention of Women
Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Author : Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 22,55 MB
Release : 1997-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1452903255
The "woman question", this book asserts, is a Western one, and not a proper lens for viewing African society. A work that rethinks gender as a Western contruction, The Invention of Women offers a new way of understanding both Yoruban and Western cultures. Oyewumi traces the misapplication of Western, body-oriented concepts of gender through the history of gender discourses in Yoruba studies. Her analysis shows the paradoxical nature of two fundamental assumptions of feminist theory: that gender is socially constructed in old Yoruba society, and that social organization was determined by relative age.
Women Researching in Africa
Ruth Jackson
Author : Ruth Jackson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 28,64 MB
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3319945025
This edited collection explores the lives, consequences and motivations of female researchers in Africa, giving unprecedented insights into how their gender—and sometimes their ethnicity and age—impacted on their research experiences, and how doing research in Africa affected them as women. Each contributor considers her place or position in the research process and provides a vivid portrait of that experience. Drawing on research findings from Nigeria, Ethiopia, Cameroon, Ghana, Guinea, Malawi, Uganda and other African countries, the book looks at gender and identity as a female researcher in Africa; relationships with 'others'; and unique methodological challenges for female researchers in Africa. With refreshing candour, each chapter challenges other researchers in Africa (both women and men), to integrate critical reflections of gender and diverse gendered field experiences into their work. Women Researching in Africa will be of interest to students and scholars across a range of disciplines including development studies, anthropology, geography, gender studies and international studies.
Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa
Lilian Lem Atanga
Author : Lilian Lem Atanga
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 12,1 MB
Release : 2013-03-27
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9027272301
Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, Struggle and Change is the first book to bring together the topics of language and gender, African languages, and gender in African contexts, and it does so in a descriptive, explanatory and critical way. Including fascinating new work and new, often challenging data from Botswana, Chad, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this collection looks at some ‘traditional’ uses of language in relation to the gender of its speakers and the gendered nature of the languages themselves; it also identifies and explores social change in terms of both gender and sexuality, as reflected in and constructed by language and discourse. The contributions to this volume are accessibly written and will be of interest to students and established academics working on African sociolinguistics and discourse, as well as those whose interest is language, gender and sexuality.
Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa
Egodi Uchendu
Author : Egodi Uchendu
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 40,65 MB
Release : 2021-08-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1793642052
A 2022 Choice Reviews Outstanding Academic Title Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, and Policies examines the entrenchment of patriarchy in Africa and its attendant socioeconomic and political consequences on gender relations. The contributors analyze the historical and modern ways in which gender expectations have enabled women in African societies to be systematically abused and marginalized, from unpaid labor to poor representation in decision-making areas. Exploring regions such as rural Uganda, the suburbs of Zimbabwe, the Gold Coast, South Africa, and Nigeria, contributors incorporate a wide range of academic theories and disciplines to establish the need for improved policy implementation on gender issues at both the local and national government levels in Africa.
Gender, Discourse and Power in the Cameroonian Parliament
Lilian Lem Atanga
Author : Lilian Lem Atanga
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 34,66 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Cameroon
ISBN : 9956615463
This book investigates gender and power relations in the Cameroonian parliament using a critical discourse analytical approach, which focuses on social issues and seeks to expose unequal relations within institutions. The study identifies different gendered discourses within the speeches of Members of Parliament and government ministers. Consciously or unconsciously, these participants within parliamentary debates draw on topics that construct women and men in specific ways, sometimes sustaining gender stereotypes or challenging existing conditions. The way men and women are constructed using language also is indicative of gender and power relations within this particular community. The study also looks at the way men and women are constructed using traditional discourses of gender differentiation and how some of these discourses get challenged, appropriated or subverted using progressive gendered discourses that advocate equal opportunities, gender equality and gender partnership in development.
Gender Activism and Studies in Africa
Signe Arnfred
Author : Signe Arnfred
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 11,78 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Women
ISBN :
Extrait de la couverture : " This book celebrates the successes in African struggles for gender equality and draws attention to the challenges facing the edification of gender studies, women's rights and entitlements. It brings together contributions by seasoned gender specialists who draw empirical evidence from several African countries - Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Mozambique, Tanzania and South Africa - to critically discuss various experiencies in setting up gender and women's studies programmes, feminist and gender activism, gender identities, social protest, gender and culture in indigenous films, continiuties and discontiniuties in conception of gender, same-sex relationship, customary law, and gendered discourse patterns."
African Literature
Safoura Salami-Boukari
Author : Safoura Salami-Boukari
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 23,94 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0979085853
How do we resolve the insider/outsider interpreting conundrum? Why do readers from different parts of the world read, interpret, or understand foreign literatures the way they do? What drives peculiar critical reactions, canon formations and such issues which determine the survival of cultural productions or their continued adoption as useful bolsters for a people's self-definition or indeed self-preservation and self-determination? African Literature: Gender Discourse, Religious Values, and the African Worldview offers a series of fresh insights into most of the old "problematics" which used to sustain the interpretations of African literature, especially by women. Students, scholars, and general readers wishing to consider issues of gender in relation to African cultural and socioeconomic systems and what Salami-Boukari interrogates and names as an "African worldview," will find the interdisciplinary discussion of historical analyses, literary criticism and gender discourses a useful method for engaging contemporary African perspectives.
Gender Discourse in Chika Unigwe's "Night Dancer"
James Ede
Author : James Ede
Publisher :
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 41,47 MB
Release : 2019-01-03
Category :
ISBN : 9783668884601
Document from the year 2018 in the subject Literature - Africa, grade: A, University of Nigeria, language: English, abstract: From time immemorial, different societies all over the world have roles/statuses assigned to males and females. There are different images as regards men/women. And male/female relationship is conservatively established. All these gender issues are portrayed through the agency of language, discourse. In this essay, Feminist theory is used in studying gender discourse as it appears in Chika Unigwe's Night Dancer. This work establishes that the society of the text is highly patriarchal. Hence, the female character who breaks this stranglehold of patriarchy faces societal stigma. Literature is conveyed through the instrumentality of language which explores universal themes. One of such themes portrayed in literary works is gender. According to Wodak, 'gender [is] not only being constructed and performed through language but also accomplished, achieved, enacted, and effected by language'. In constructing gender via language, literary works from the classical periods don't have equal positions for males and females. This is because the societies in those works are patriarchal. The subordination of women in the West is reflected in a lot of literary works. In African literature as well, female characters are created to fill a subordinate status in the family cum society. For instance, Nwajiaku states that "Most African societies are patriarchal in constitution. This implies a male- dominated social system, where women are only tangential within the scheme" (345). This 'male-dominated social system' is prevalent in early male-authored literary works of African literature. For instance, in Achebe's Things Fall Apart, A Man of the People, No Longer at Ease, women are shown as appendages to their husbands. They are expected to be quiet and subdued and their primary concerns are their children.
Africa After Gender?
Catherine M. Cole
Author : Catherine M. Cole
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 33,27 MB
Release : 2007-02-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0253218772
Gender is one of the most productive, dynamic, and vibrant areas of Africanist research today. This volume looks at Africa now that gender has come into play to consider how the continent, its people, and the term itself have changed.