African Gender Studies A Reader

This is the first comprehensive reader that brings African experiences to bear on the ongoing global discussions of women, gender, and society. Bringing together the essential writing on this topic from the last 25 years, these essays discuss gender in Africa from a multi-disciplinary perspective. With a theoretical and conceptual focus, African Gender Studies will inform debate in African Studies, Women's Studies, History, Sociology and Anthropology.

Oyeronke Oyewumi is Associate Professor of Sociology, SUNY Stony Brook.

Acknowledgments

xi

Preface

xiii

Section I Transcending the Body of Knowledge

1

(48)

Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects

3

(20)

Oyeronke Oyewumi

Spirituality, Gender, and Power in Asante History

23

(26)

Emmanuel Akyeampong

Pashington Obeng

Section II Decolonizing Feminisms

49

(32)

Bringing African Women into the Classroom: Rethinking Pedagogy and Epistemology

51

(16)

Obioma Nnaemeka

Decolonizing Feminism

67

(14)

Marnia Lazreg

Section III Reconceptualizing Gender

81

(86)

Theorizing Matriarchy in Africa: Kinship Ideologies and Systems in Africa and Europe

83

(16)

Ifi Amadiume

(Re)constituting the Cosmology and Sociocultural Institutions of Oyo--Yoruba

99

(22)

Oyeronke Oyewumi

Ko Sohun ti Mbe ti o Nitan (Nothing Is that Lacks a [Hi]story): On Oyeronke Oyewumi's The Invention of Women

121

(6)

Adeleke Adeeko

Women's Roles and Existential Identities

127

(18)

Igor Kopytoff

Revisiting ``Woman-Woman Marriage'': Notes on Gikuyu Women

145

(22)

Wairimu Ngaruiya Njambi

William E. O'Brien

Section IV Gender Biases in the Making of History

167

(76)

Making History, Creating Gender: Some Methodological and Interpretive Questions in the Writing of Oyo Oral Traditions

169

(38)

Oyeronke Oyewumi

Gender Biases in African Historiography

207

(26)

Paul Tiyambe Zeleza

Senegalese Women in Politics: A Portrait of Two Female Leaders, Arame Diene and Thioumbe Samb, 1945--1996

233

(10)

Babacar Fall

Section V Writing Women: Reading Gender

243

(54)

Miscegenation as Metonymy: Sexuality and Power in the Colonial Novel

245

(14)

Abena P. A. Busia

Gender, Feminist Theory, and Post-Colonial (Women's) Writing

259

(20)

Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi

The Hidden History of Women in Ghanaian Print Culture

279

(18)

Audrey Gadzekpo

Section VI Development and Social Transformation

297

(42)

Definitions of Women and Development: An African Perspective

299

(14)

Achola O. Pala

An Investigative Framework for Gender Research in Africa in the New Millennium

313

(20)

Filomina Chioma Steady

The Yum: An Indigenous Model for Sustainable Development

333

(6)

Bertrade B. Ngo-Ngijol Banoum

Section VII Critical Conversations

339

(78)

In My Father's House: Epilogue

341

(14)

Kwame Anthony Appiah

Questions of Identity and Inheritance: A Critical Review of Kwame Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House

355

(26)

Nkiru Nzegwu

African Gender Research and Postcoloniality: Legacies and Challenges

381

(16)

Desiree Lewis

African Women in the Academy and Beyond: Review Essay

397

(20)

Godwin Rapando Murunga

Contributors

417

(2)

Index

419

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