Women in Africa

• Utgivningsdatum: 2025-05-22
• Mått: 174 x 246 x undefined mm
• Vikt: 1 220 g
• Format: Inbunden
• Språk: Engelska
• Serie: Routledge Global Africa Textbooks
• Antal sidor: 544
• Förlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• ISBN: 9781032118024

• Kulturvetenskap
• Afrikas historia
• Genusvetenskap
• Politik och statsskick

Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. Falola has published over a hundred books and is the recipient of 20 honorary doctorates as well as several lifetime achievement awards. Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is Associate Professor of African and African American Studies at Brandeis University, USA, Vice-President of the International Studies Association (ISA, 2024–2025), and Research Fellow at the University of the Free State. She is the co-editor of the three-volume Palgrave Handbook of African Women’s Studies (2021) and has published 11 other books on African politics, women, gender, refugees, and knowledge production in Africa.

"A groundbreaking and much awaited book, Women in Africa is comprehensive in coverage, interdisciplinary in content, and profound in study. The authors celebrate the women of Africa through a careful insider exploration of the rich and powerful religious, historical, sociological and political agency of these women. In so doing, they weave a unique link between the past and the present in the status and lives of these women and open the study on the future of women’s studies. A remarkable achievement that grabs the reader’s attention throughout the book and centers the complex facets of African women’s lives in the issues that matter in African and global studies."Fatima Sadiqi, Professor of Linguistics and Gender Studies, Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah University, Fes, Morocco."All-encompassing and compelling exposition about Women in Africa, justifying their study, the way they should be studied and perceived, from precolonial period to contemporary times; fascinatingly, covering the struggles of women over different countries, cultures, spheres of activity and proffering imaginative ideas on bridging the gender gap in Africa."Antonia Taiye Simbine, Research Professor and Director-General, Nigerian Institute of Social and Economic Research (NISER), Nigeria."Women in Africa is an indispensable resource for students of Africa. This volume offers a comprehensive exploration of African women's lives, experiences, and contributions in shaping African history, politics, and society."Aili Mari Tripp, Vilas Research Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA."Women in Africa provides students and scholars with the most accessible and comprehensive entry point available for the study of African women. It foregrounds African feminist intellectual traditions and refuses continental generalisation while attempting to achieve a continent-wide scope. It also consistently insists on intersectionality not as a rhetorical gesture but as an analytical practice. Readers seeking a theorised account of migration and social class as organising frameworks will need to supplement it with more focused scholarship. Importantly, this textbook serves as a foundational text that maps the terrain on which such theorisation must occur. Specifically, the textbook offers a theorisation that recovers and recentres the historical agency of African women, names the structures that have constrained such agency, and reimagines the agentic power of African women as one that does not require liberation but rather remains part of African women’s lives and identities."Afua A. Yeboah and Nana-Anna Abaka-Cann, Feminist Africa, 2026, Vol 7, Issue 2

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