Gendering knowledge in Africa and the African diaspora : contesting history and power /

Gendering knowledge in Africa and the African diaspora : contesting history and power / edited by Toyin Falola and Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso.

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Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora addresses the question of to what extent the history of gender in Africa is appropriately inscribed in narratives of power, patriarchy, migration, identity, and women and men's subjection, emasculation and empowerment. The book weaves toget...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Alexander Street Press)
Other Authors: Falola, Toyin (Editor), Yacob-Haliso, Olajumoke (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Routledge (Publisher), 2017.
Series:Global Africa ; 5.
Subjects:
Women > Africa > History.
Women > Africa > Social conditions.
Women > Africa > Social life and customs.
African diaspora.
Sex role > Africa > History.
Electronic books.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Gendering knowledge in Africa and the African diaspora / Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso and Toyin Falola
  • The Bantu matrilineal belt : reframing African women's history / Rhonda M. Gonzales, Christine Said, and C. Cymone Fourshey
  • Remapping the African diaspora : place, gender, and negotiation in Arabian slavery / Alaine Hutson
  • Communicating feminist ethics in the age of new media in Africa / Sharon Adetutu Omotoso
  • Transnational feminist solidarity, black German women, and the politics of belonging / Tiffany N. Florvil
  • Beyond disability : trans-Atlantic slave trade and female heroism in Manu Herbstein's Ama / Senayon Olaoluwa
  • Reverse migration of Africans in the diaspora : foregrounding a woman's quest for her roots in Tess Onwueme's Legacies / Methuselah Samuel Jeremiah
  • Queens in flight : Fela Kuti's Afrobeat queens and the performance of "black" feminist diasporas / Dotun Ayobade
  • Women and Tfu in Wimbum Community, Cameroon / Elias K. Bongmba
  • Women's agency and peacebuilding in Nigeria's Jos crises / Omotola Adeyoju Ilesanmi
  • Contesting the notions of "thugs and welfare queens" : combating black derision and death / Leamon Bazil
  • Culture of silence and gender development in Nigeria / Gift U. Ntiwunka and Rachael Oluseye Iyanda
  • Emasculation, social humiliation, and psychological castration in Irene's More than dancing / Mobolanle E. Sotunsa and Francis O. Jegede.

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