Gender Epistemologies in Africa: The Gendering of African Traditions, Spaces, Social Identities, and Institutions

257 Pages·2011·2.84 MB·English

by  Oyeronke Oyewumi

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GENDER EPISTEMOLOGIES IN AFRICA
Copyright © Oyèrónké. Oyeˇwùmí, 2011.
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Acknowledgments ix Pal
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List of Contributors xi m
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Introduction: Gendering 1 ote
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Yorùbá Scholars(hip) and Male Dominance 9 niv
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Seven S elf-Image and Self-Naming: A Discursive and
Social Analysis of Women’s Microenterprises in
Senegal and Mali 155
Marieme S. Lo
Eight I rua Ria Atumia and Anticolonial Struggles among
the G˜ıkJyJ of Kenya: A Counternarrative on 15
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Grateful acknowledgement is made to all the contributors who heeded Pal
the call and allowed me to include their papers in this anthology. I so -
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permission to publish “Engendering Critical Spatial Literacy: Migrant er
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Asante Women and the Politics of Urban Space” by Epifania Amoo- Uni
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Adare, and to Marta Granatowska of Sage Publications for allowing d t
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David O. Ogungbile. “Religious Experience and Women Leadership
in Nigerian Islam,” JENDA: A Journal of Culture and African Women
Studies: Issue 6, 2004.
Copyright © 2005 Africa Resource Center, Inc.
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