Readings in gender in Africa [electronic resource] /
edited by Andrea Cornwall.
- Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; 2005.
- vii, 247 p. ; 24 cm.
- ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
Published in association with the International African Institute. E-Book-ACLS / Zugriff nur im DHI-Lesesaal American Council of Learned Societies/ https://www.humanitiesebook.org/about/
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Western perceptions of African women in the 19th & early 20th centuries / Status of women in indigenous African societies / Mapping African feminisms / Down to fundamentals : women-centered hearth-holds in rural west Africa / Male lesbians & other queer notions in Hausa / Noise over camouflaged polygamy, colonial morality taxation, & a woman-naming crisis in Belgian Africa / Fork up and smile : marketing, colonial knowledge, & the female subject in Zimbabwe / Worries of the heart : widowed mothers, daughters, & masculinities in Maragoli, western Kenya, 1940-60 / School fees & the marriage process for Mende girls in Sierra Leone / "No romance without finance" : commodities, masculinities, & relationships amongst Kampalan students / "Dangerous" love : reflections on violence among Xhosa township youth / Female farming in anthropology & African history / "Gone to their second husbands" : marital metaphors & conjugal contracts in the Gambia's female garden sector / Which family? : problems in the reconstruction of the history of the family as an economic & cultural unit / Josephine Beoku-Betts -- Niara Sudarkasa -- Obioma Nnaemeka -- Felicia A. Ekejiuba -- Rudolf P. Gaudio -- Nancy Rose Hunt -- Timothy Burke -- Kenda Mutongi -- Caroline Bledsoe -- David Mills & Richard Ssewakiryanga -- Katherine Wood & Rachel Jewkes -- Jane I. Guyer -- Richard A. Schroeder -- Megan Vaughan. Women "entrepreneurs" of early Nairobi / Baganda women's night market activities / Shunting between masculine ideals : Nigerian railwaymen in the colonial era / Rebels or status seekers? : women as spirit mediums in east Africa / Reflections on slavery, seclusion, & female labor in the Maradi region of Niger in the 19th & 20th centuries / Gender, culture, & capitalism : women & the remaking of Islamic tradition in a Sudanese village / Devout domesticity? : a century of African women's Christianity in South Africa / "Called to work for the kingdom of God" : the challenge of Presybyterian masculinities in colonial Ghana / Iyalode in the traditional Yoruba political system / Rounding up spinsters : gender chaos & unmarried women in colonial Asante / Tanganyikan nationalism as "women's work" : life histories, collective biography, & changing historiography / Gender & decolonization : a study of three women in west African public life / No shortcuts to power : constraints on women's political effectiveness in Uganda / Women in movement : transformations in African political landscapes / Janet M. Bujra -- Nakanyike B. Musisi -- Lisa A. Lindsay -- Iris Berger -- Barbara Cooper -- Victorial Bernal -- Deborah Gaitskell -- Stephan F. Miescher -- Bolanle Awe -- Jean Allmann -- Susan Geiger -- Laray Denzer -- Anne Marie Goetz -- Aili Mari Tripp.