Gender and Cultural Studies in Africa and the Diaspora – serie
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23 produkter
Spatial Literacy
Contemporary Asante Women’s Place-making
Inbunden, 2013
497 kr
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This book makes the case for an urgent praxis of critical spatial literacy for African women. It provides a critical analysis of how Asante women negotiate and understand the politics of contemporary space in Accra and beyond and the effect it has on their lives, demonstrating how they critically …
Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi
No Secret Under the Sun
Av A. Wilson
Inbunden, 2013
536 kr
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Informal folk narrative genres such as gossip, advice, rumor, and urban legends provide a unique lens through which to discern popular formations of gender conflict and AIDS beliefs. This is the first book on AIDS and gender in Africa to draw primarily on such narratives. By exploring tales of love …
What Gender is Motherhood?
Changing Yorùbá Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity
Inbunden, 2015
987 kr
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In this book, Oyěwùmí extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yorùbá society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original form. Taking seriously indigenous modes and categories of knowledge, she applies her finding of a …
Democracy at Home in South Africa
Family Fictions and Transitional Culture
Inbunden, 2015
552 kr
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Focusing on aesthetic figuration diverse home spaces, modes of domestic life, and family histories, this book argues that depicting democracy as it unfolds literally at home presents a compelling portrait of the intimate and everyday aspects of change that can be overlooked by a focus on structural …
Folklore, Gender, and AIDS in Malawi
No Secret Under the Sun
Av A. Wilson
Häftad, 2013
624 kr
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Informal folk narrative genres such as gossip, advice, rumor, and urban legends provide a unique lens through which to discern popular formations of gender conflict and AIDS beliefs. This is the first book on AIDS and gender in Africa to draw primarily on such narratives. By exploring tales of love …
What Gender is Motherhood?
Changing Yorùbá Ideals of Power, Procreation, and Identity in the Age of Modernity
Häftad, 2015
421 kr
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In this book, Oyěwùmí extends her path-breaking thesis that in Yorùbá society, construction of gender is a colonial development since the culture exhibited no gender divisions in its original form. Taking seriously indigenous modes and categories of knowledge, she applies her finding of a …
West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways
Inbunden, 2019
303 kr
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This open-access edited collection, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, offers a transatlantic, transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth—ranging from Black immigrant youth in the American city of Newark, New Jersey, to students in Almajiri Islamic schools …
West African Youth Challenges and Opportunity Pathways
Häftad, 2020
312 kr
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This open-access edited collection, focusing on Ghana and Nigeria, offers a transatlantic, transnational exploration of barriers that threaten the wellbeing of West African youth—ranging from Black immigrant youth in the American city of Newark, New Jersey, to students in Almajiri Islamic schools …
Television in Africa in the Digital Age
Av Gilbert Motsaathebe, Sarah H. Chiumbu
Inbunden, 2021
1395 kr
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This book places television in Africa in the digital context. It address the onslaught of multimedia platforms, digital migration and implication of this technology for society. The discussions in the chapters contained in this book encompass a wide range of issues such as digital disruption of …
Television in Africa in the Digital Age
Av Gilbert Motsaathebe, Sarah H. Chiumbu
Häftad, 2022
1395 kr
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This book places television in Africa in the digital context. It address the onslaught of multimedia platforms, digital migration and implication of this technology for society. The discussions in the chapters contained in this book encompass a wide range of issues such as digital disruption of …
Naming Africans
On the Epistemic Value of Names
Av Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, Hewan Girma
Inbunden, 2023
1532 kr
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Focusing on the epistemic value of African names, this edited collection is based on the premise that personal names constitute valuable sources of historical and ethnographic information and help to unveil endogenous forms of knowledge. The chapters assembled here document and analyze personal …
Naming Africans
On the Epistemic Value of Names
Av Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí, Hewan Girma
Häftad, 2024
1532 kr
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Focusing on the epistemic value of African names, this edited collection is based on the premise that personal names constitute valuable sources of historical and ethnographic information and help to unveil endogenous forms of knowledge. The chapters assembled here document and analyze personal …
Gender and Leadership in Nigeria and Ghana
Av Mobolanle Sotunsa, Abiola Sakirat Kalejaiye m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1532 kr
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This book provides balanced critical linguistic and literary representations of gender and power relations in Ghanaian and Nigerian texts, contrary to most existing literary and linguistic studies on gender that have either focused on male chauvinism or male emasculation. This text provides novel …
Gender and Leadership in Nigeria and Ghana
Av Mobolanle Sotunsa, Abiola Sakirat Kalejaiye m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
1532 kr
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This book provides balanced critical linguistic and literary representations of gender and power relations in Ghanaian and Nigerian texts, contrary to most existing literary and linguistic studies on gender that have either focused on male chauvinism or male emasculation. This text provides novel …
Nigerian Women in Cultural, Political and Public Spaces
Av Mobolanle Sotunsa, Anthonia Makwemoisa Yakubu
Inbunden, 2023
1532 kr
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This book will provide empirical engagements of African women in the private and public spaces and their adaptations, alterations and and integration of the private and public spaces. This approach is contrary to most existing studies which may not necessarily provide contextual and empirical …
Nigerian Women in Cultural, Political and Public Spaces
Av Mobolanle Sotunsa, Anthonia Makwemoisa Yakubu
Häftad, 2024
1532 kr
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This book will provide empirical engagements of African women in the private and public spaces and their adaptations, alterations and and integration of the private and public spaces. This approach is contrary to most existing studies which may not necessarily provide contextual and empirical …
From History to Herstory
Culture, Gender and Religion in Archival Material in Southern Africa
Av Paul Leshota, Maxwell Musingafi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
1749 kr
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This book seeks to contribute to reflections done on the gender equality agenda by combing through oral and written resources to unearth and document heroic displays of leadership by women of Africa in general and of Southern Africa in particular, that remain hidden under the rubble of Eurocentric, …
From History to Herstory
Culture, Gender and Religion in Archival Material in Southern Africa
Av Paul Leshota, Maxwell Musingafi m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
1749 kr
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This book seeks to contribute to reflections done on the gender equality agenda by combing through oral and written resources to unearth and document heroic displays of leadership by women of Africa in general and of Southern Africa in particular, that remain hidden under the rubble of Eurocentric, …
Gender and Sexuality in Transdisciplinary African Humanities
Av Wumi Raji
Inbunden, 2026
1641 kr
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This book focuses on African gender and sexuality, and systems of knowledge emanating from studying and researching them. It challenges conventional narratives by examining the complexities of gender and sexuality within the African Humanities, and explores the fluidity and diversity of gender …
Oral Memory of Africans and People of African Descent
Av Inocência Mata, Francesca Negro
Inbunden, 2027
2115 kr
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This edited collection aims to identify memories and perceptions of African subjects who lived the process of struggle for independence and the experience of colonial wars, shaping their identity on the negotiation between personal memory and the narrative proposed by official history. It also …
Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions
Aesthetics of Resistance
Av Caroline A. Brown, Johanna X. K. Garvey
Inbunden, 2017
1558 kr
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This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Moving from an over-reliance on the “madwoman” as a romanticized figure constructed in opposition to the status quo, contributors to …
Madness in Black Women’s Diasporic Fictions
Aesthetics of Resistance
Av Caroline A. Brown, Johanna X. K. Garvey
Häftad, 2018
1558 kr
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This collection chronicles the strategic uses of madness in works by black women fiction writers from Africa, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe, and the United States. Moving from an over-reliance on the “madwoman” as a romanticized figure constructed in opposition to the status quo, contributors to …
Politics of Financial Inclusion of Women in South Africa
Evolution and Lessons
Inbunden, 2023
1423 kr
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This book presents the assumptions, narratives, and institutions that underpin the key concepts and investigates the limits and potential of financial inclusion development strategy for gender equality. Using South Africa’s women entrepreneurs as a central case, the book interrogates the logic and …
