CODESRIA Gender Series Volume 1
Published November 2004; 110 pages ISBN: 2-86978-138-5
A distinctive contribution of African feminist and gender
scholarship has been a conscious effort to draw from, and
simultaneously rethink, concepts, paradigms and methodologies
that are often taken for granted both in conventional and in
mainstream feminist scholarship. This with a view to enriching
them with perspectives sensitive to the encounters, cultures,
economic and socio-political predicaments that have shaped and
been shaped by gender relations in Africa.
Volume I brings together essays by some of the leading names on
gender studies in Africa, as a major contribution to these
concerns. Situating themselves variously in relation to claims
and counter claims on the universalisms and particularisms in
African feminism and gender studies, the authors de-bate the
relative (de)-merits of Eurocentrism, African epistemologies and
cultures, colonial legacies, postcolonial realities, and other
current dilemmas and challenges in understanding and
articulating African feminism and gender research. Practiced and
budding scholars should find this a fascinating read.
The CODESRIA Gender Series acknowledges the need to challenge
the masculinities underpinning the structures of repression that
target women. The series aims to keep alive and nourish African
social science research with insightful research and debates
that challenge conventional wisdom, structures and ideologies
that are narrowly informed by caricatures of gender realities.
It strives to showcase the best in African gender research and
provide a platform for the emergence of new talents to flower.
Published November 2004; 110 pages ISBN: 2-86978-138-5
Rest of the world: 15.00 USD; Africa: non-CFA 10.50 USD; CFA
6,000
Contributors
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Signe Arnfred
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Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
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Edward Waswa Kisiang’ani
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Desiree Lewis
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Oyeronke Oyewumi
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Filomina Chioma Steady
Contents
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Contributors
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iv |
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Preface
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v |
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Chapter 1
Conceptualising Gender: Eurocentric Foundations
of Feminist Concepts and the Challenge of African
Epistemologies
Oyeronke Oyewumi |
1 |
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Chapter 2
Decolonising Gender Studies in Africa
Edward Namisiko Waswa Kisiang’ani |
9 |
Chapter 3
African Gender Research and Postcoloniality: Legacies and
Challenges
Desiree Lewis |
27 |
Chapter 4
An Investigative Framework for Gender Research in Africa in
the New Millennium
Filomina Chioma Steady |
42 |
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Chapter 5
‘Yorubas Don’t Do Gender’: A Critical Review of Oyeronke
Oyewumi’s The Invention of Women: Making An African
Sense of Western Gender Discourses
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf |
61 |
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Chapter 6
Gender Research in Africa: Dilemmas and Challenges as Seen
by an Outsider
Signe Arnfred |
82 |
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