Research Catalog

Details

Additional authors

1. Falola, Toyin.
2. Amponsah, Nana Akua.

Description

1. xvii, 356 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

1. This book is a collection of significant analytical and critical writings on how the structures of power have exerted systematic governance over women. Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Africa also addresses how the rhetorical devices of tradition and modernity have played important roles in the control and appropriation of African women's bodies. The chapters draw on history, literature, political science, journalism, sociology, comparative studies, and women and gender studies to offer multidisciplinary perspectives from which to understand the diversity of women's experiences, gender issues, and sexualities as they intersect with class, race, ethnicity, and nationality. This volume not only shows how the macro-narratives of colonialism and post-colonialism provide frameworks for understanding the micro-narratives of empowerment and disempowerment of women, but also considers resistance strategies women have used to guard against the subjugation of their bodies and sexualities. Themes covered include constructions of African motherhood and womanhood, femininity and health, gender and sexual representations and contestations, and gendered nationalism and culture. Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Africa is not only an important sourcebook, but it also speaks to a broad spectrum of readers from a multidisciplinary perspective.

Series statement

1. African world series

Uniform title

1. Carolina Academic Press African world series.

Subject

1. Gender Identity > Africa
2. Body Image > Africa
3. Sexual Behavior > Africa
4. Women > psychology > Africa
5. Women's Rights > Africa
6. Sex role > Africa
7. Gender expression > Africa
8. Women > Sexual behavior > Africa

Contents

1. Ambivalence toward the African woman's body : Jean Pierre Bekolo's Les saignantes (The bloodletters) and the Mevoungou / Naminata Diabate -- "I am the rape" : exile, sexual violence, and the body in the poems of Dambudzo Marechera / Z'étoile Imma -- Big buttocks and sultry behavior : perceptions of post-colonial African women in British women's travel narratives / Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué -- Of silences, bended knees and sexuality : insights on the gendered (re)presentations in Yorùbá art / Adérónké Adésolá Adésànyà -- Western religions and female sexuality : engaging dualistic thinking in attitudes to African women's sexuality / Mary Nyangweso Wangila -- The struggle for sexual rights among the Kikuyu women of central Kenya, 1918-2002 / Felix Kiruthu, Martha Wangari Musalia, and Mildred Jalang'o-Ndeda -- Decolonizing homosexuality in Uganda as a human rights process / Caroline Tushabe -- The reality of homosexuality in Africa : the Yoruba example / Ebunoluwa O. Oduwole -- Kodjo besia, supi, yags and eagles : being tacit subjects and non-normative citizens in contemporary Ghana / Kathleen O'Mara -- Advertising as reality? : defining gay in South Africa gay print media / Janeske Botes -- Dressing the part : dress culture, gender, compliance, and resistance in Mobutu's Zaire / Danielle Porter Sanchez -- Les Femmes Libre and Mama wa Taifa : constructions of gender in Mobutu's Zaire and Nyerere's Tanzania : 1965-1979 / Jonathan Shaw -- On the promotion of "certain" Ugandan women : was Idi Amin feminist or foe? / Alicia Decker -- "The beauty and rightness of our national costume" : dress, modernity, and women's activism in Northern Sudan / Marie Grace Brown -- Breaking the walls of tradition : male braiders in Nigeria / Sati U. Fwatshak -- Motherhood, women's bodies and "eating well" : pregnancy, a metaphor of life in the Cameroon Grassfields / Bridget A. Teboh -- Mothers and grandmothers : strategies of the construction of motherhood in Cape Verde / Andréa de Souza Lobo -- The good mother and the contaminating mother : experiences and expectations of motherhood following an HIV-positive diagnosis / Gretchen du Plessis & Heidi Celliers -- The "weaponization" of rape and HIV/AIDS in African conflicts / Obijiofor Aginam -- Femininity and the practice of medicine : the Asante experience / Yaw Sarkodie Agyemang.

Call number

1. Sc F 14-14

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Title

1. Women, gender, and sexualities in Africa / [edited by] Toyin Falola and Nana Akua Amponsah.

Imprint

1. Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, 2013.

Series

1. African world series
2. Carolina Academic Press African world series.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added author

1. Falola, Toyin.
2. Amponsah, Nana Akua.

LCCN

1. 2012015308

Other standard identifier

1. 40022472963

ISBN

1. 9781611631531
2. 161163153X

Research call number

1. Sc F 14-14