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Gender Epistemologies in Africa

Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities

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  1. Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyĕwùmí

    1. Stony Brook University, USA

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Introduction

    • Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyĕwùmí
    Pages 1-7

  3. Decolonizing the Intellectual and the Quotidian: Yorùbá Scholars(hip) and Male Dominance

    • Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyĕwùmí
    Pages 9-33

  4. Gender in Translation: Ẹfúnṣetán Aníwúrà

    • Adélékè Adéẹ̀kọ́
    Pages 35-62

  5. Ode to Patriarchy: The Fine Line between Praise and Criticism in a Popular Senegalese Poem

    • Marame Gueye
    Pages 63-83

  6. Women and Leadership in Nigerian Islam: The Experience of Alhaja Sheidat Mujidat Adéoyè of Òṣogbo

    • David O. Ogungbile
    Pages 85-99

  7. Engendering Critical Spatial Literacy: Migrant Asante Women and the Politics of Urban Space

    • Epifania Amoo-Adare
    Pages 101-118

  8. Outsiders Within: Experiences of Women Academics in Kenya

    • Njoki M. Kamau
    Pages 119-154

  9. Self-Image and Self-Naming: A Discursive and Social Analysis of Women’s Microenterprises in Senegal and Mali

    • Marieme S. Lo
    Pages 155-178

  10. Irua Ria Atumia and Anticolonial Struggles among the Gĩkũyũ of Kenya: A Counternarrative on “Female Genital Mutilation”

    • Wairimũ Ngarũiya Njambi
    Pages 179-197

  11. NAKABUMBA: God Creates Humanity as a Potter Creates a Pot

    • Christine Saidi
    Pages 199-222

  12. Beyond Gendercentric Models: Restoring Motherhood to Yorùbá Discourses of Art and Aesthetics

    • Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyĕwùmí
    Pages 223-238

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 239-244
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About this book

This volume brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Stony Brook University, USA

    Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyĕwùmí

About the editor

OYERONKE OYEWUMI Associate Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook, USA. She was born in Nigeria and educated at the University of Ibadan and the University of California at Berkeley, Oyewumi has been widely recognized for her work. The monograph Invention won the 1998 Distinguished Book Award of the American Sociological Association and was a finalist for the Herskovitts Prize of the African Studies Association in the same year. She has garnered a number of research fellowships, including Rockefeller Fellowships, a Presidential fellowship, and a Ford Foundation grant. Oyewumi's most recent research support was a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship on Human Security (2003/2004), managed by National Council for Research on Women. (NCRW).

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