"Wicked" women and the reconfiguration of gender in Africa / edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl A. McCurdy.

This edited collection of 17 essays examines the many ways African women pushed the borders individually and collectively, of "acceptable" behavior to produce changes in the gendered dynamics of power and a reconfiguration of broader moral and social orders. The book bridges the gap betwee...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ACLS)
Other Authors: Hodgson, Dorothy Louise (Editor), McCurdy, Sheryl, 1956- (Editor)
Other title:ACLS Fellows' Publications.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Portsmouth, N.H. : Oxford : Cape Town : Heinemann ; James Currey ; David Philip, [2001]
Series:Social history of Africa.
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505 0 0 |t Women, marriage, divorce and the emerging Colonial state in Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1892-1904 /  |r Judith Byfield --  |t "She thinks she's like a man": marriage and (de)constructing gender identity in Colonial Buha, Western Tanzania, 1943-1960 /  |r Margot Lovett --  |t Wayward women and useless men : contest and change in gender relations in Ado-Odo /  |r Andrea Cornwall --  |t "Gone to their second husbands": marital metaphors and conjugal contracts in the Gambia's female garden sector /  |r Richard A. Schroeder --  |t Dancing women and Colonial men: the Nwaobiala of 1925 /  |r Misty L. Bastian --  |t Rounding up spinsters : gender chaos and unmarried women in Colonial Asante /  |r Jean Allman --  |t "My daughter ... belongs to the government now" : marriage, Maasai, and the Tanzanian state /  |r Dorothy L. Hodgson --  |t Gender and the cultural construction of "bad women" in the development of Kampala-Kibuga, 1900-1962 /  |r Nakanyike B. Musisi --  |t You have left me wandering about: Basotho women and the culture of mobility /  |r David B. Coplan --  |t Urban threats : Manyema women, low fertility, and venereal diseases in Tanganyika, 1926-1936 /  |r Sheryl A. McCurdy --  |t Negotiating social independence : the challenges of career pursuits for Igbo women in Postcolonial Nigeria /  |r Philomena E. Okeke --  |t Politics of difference and women's associations in Niger: of "prostitutes," the public, and politics /  |r Barbara M. Cooper --  |t "Wicked women" and "respectable ladies" : reconfiguring gender on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1936-1964 /  |r Jane L. Parpart --  |t Gender and profiteering: Ghana's market women as devoted mothers and "human vampire bats" /  |r Gracia Clark. 
520 8 |a This edited collection of 17 essays examines the many ways African women pushed the borders individually and collectively, of "acceptable" behavior to produce changes in the gendered dynamics of power and a reconfiguration of broader moral and social orders. The book bridges the gap between studies of women and studies of gender by demonstrating how gender relations are produced, reproduced, and transformed through the everyday ideas and agency of women and men interacting with local and translocal structures and processes. With rich attention to the interplay between agency, power, and structure, this superb collection challenges common stereotypes of African women as either victims or unrestrained resisters. Hodgson and McCurdy have assembled an impressive and multidisciplinary group of contributors. Some are senior scholars who have published widely in social history. Others are junior or mid-ranking scholars who already have substantial and have publications in the leading journals in their fields. The editors themselves provide a superb introduction that unifies the collection and offers novel theoretical and methodological insights into the study of women in Africa. This is a long overdue anthology that should become a required text every course that explores the experiences of African women and in every African Studies and African history course that takes gender seriously. 
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