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Gender Epistemologies in Africa = Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Gender Epistemologies in Africa/ edited by Oyeronke Oyewumi.
Reminder of title:	Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities /
other author:	Oy�ew�um�i, Oy�er�onk��e.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan, : 2011.,
Description:	1 online resource (257 p.)
Notes:	Includes index.
Subject:	Gender identity - Africa. -
Online resource:	http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230116276
ISBN:	9780230116276

Gender Epistemologies in Africa = Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities /
Gender Epistemologies in AfricaGendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities /[electronic resource] :edited by Oyeronke Oyewumi. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan,2011. - 1 online resource (257 p.)

Includes index.

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Contributors -- Introduction: Gendering -- One: Decolonizing the Intellectual and the Quotidian: Yor�ub�a Scholars(hip) and Male Dominance -- Two: Gender in Translation: Ef�unset�an An�iw�ur�a -- Three: Ode to Patriarchy: The Fine Line between Praise and Criticism in a Popular Senegalese Poem -- Four: Women and Leadership in Nigerian Islam: The Experience of Alhaja Sheidat Mujidat Ad�eoy�e of �Osogbo -- Five: Engendering Critical Spatial Literacy: Migrant Asante Women and the Politics of Urban Space -- Six: Outsiders Within: Experiences of Women Academics in Kenya.

This book brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa. If gender emerges out of particular histories and social contexts, we must therefore pay attention to the histories of genderings as well as the continuous ways in which gender is made and remade in everyday interactions, and by institutions. In this sen.

ISBN: 9780230116276Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Gender identity
--Africa.Index Terms--Genre/Form:

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Electronic books.

LC Class. No.: HQ1075.5.A35 / G46 2011

Dewey Class. No.: 305.3096

Gender Epistemologies in Africa = Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities /
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