TY - GEN AU - Cornwall,Andrea ED - International African Institute. TI - Readings in gender in Africa PY - 2005/// CY - Bloomington PB - Indiana University Press KW - Africa KW - Social conditions KW - Sex role KW - Women KW - Masculinity KW - Sex (Psychology) N1 - 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; Josephine Beoku-Betts --; Status of women in indigenous African societies; Niara Sudarkasa --; Mapping African feminisms; Obioma Nnaemeka --; Down to fundamentals : women-centered hearth-holds in rural west Africa; Felicia A. Ekejiuba --; Male lesbians & other queer notions in Hausa; Rudolf P. Gaudio --; Noise over camouflaged polygamy, colonial morality taxation, & a woman-naming crisis in Belgian Africa; Nancy Rose Hunt --; Fork up and smile : marketing, colonial knowledge, & the female subject in Zimbabwe; Timothy Burke --; Worries of the heart : widowed mothers, daughters, & masculinities in Maragoli, western Kenya, 1940-60; Kenda Mutongi --; School fees & the marriage process for Mende girls in Sierra Leone; Caroline Bledsoe --; "No romance without finance" : commodities, masculinities, & relationships amongst Kampalan students; David Mills & Richard Ssewakiryanga --; "Dangerous" love : reflections on violence among Xhosa township youth; Katherine Wood & Rachel Jewkes --; Female farming in anthropology & African history; Jane I. Guyer --; "Gone to their second husbands" : marital metaphors & conjugal contracts in the Gambia's female garden sector; Richard A. Schroeder --; Which family? : problems in the reconstruction of the history of the family as an economic & cultural unit; Megan Vaughan; Women "entrepreneurs" of early Nairobi; Janet M. Bujra --; Baganda women's night market activities; Nakanyike B. Musisi --; Shunting between masculine ideals : Nigerian railwaymen in the colonial era; Lisa A. Lindsay --; Rebels or status seekers? : women as spirit mediums in east Africa; Iris Berger --; Reflections on slavery, seclusion, & female labor in the Maradi region of Niger in the 19th & 20th centuries; Barbara Cooper --; Gender, culture, & capitalism : women & the remaking of Islamic tradition in a Sudanese village; Victorial Bernal --; Devout domesticity? : a century of African women's Christianity in South Africa; Deborah Gaitskell --; "Called to work for the kingdom of God" : the challenge of Presybyterian masculinities in colonial Ghana; Stephan F. Miescher --; Iyalode in the traditional Yoruba political system; Bolanle Awe --; Rounding up spinsters : gender chaos & unmarried women in colonial Asante; Jean Allmann --; Tanganyikan nationalism as "women's work" : life histories, collective biography, & changing historiography; Susan Geiger --; Gender & decolonization : a study of three women in west African public life; Laray Denzer --; No shortcuts to power : constraints on women's political effectiveness in Uganda; Anne Marie Goetz --; Women in movement : transformations in African political landscapes; Aili Mari Tripp UR - https://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb04122 ER -