Gender Activism and Studies in Africa
CODESRIA Gender Series Volume 3
Published December 2004; 184 pages ISBN: 2-86978-140-7
This book celebrates the successes in African struggles for
gender equality and draws attention to the challenges facing the
edification of gender studies, women’s rights and entitlements.
It brings together contributions by seasoned gender specialists
who draw empirical evidence from several African countries –
Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Mozambique, Tanzania and South Africa –
to critically discuss various experiences in setting up gender
and women’s studies programmes, feminist and gender activism,
gender identities, social protest, gender and culture in
indigenous films, continuities and discontinuities in
conceptions of gender, same-sex relationships, customary law,
and gendered discourse patterns. Readers will find great merit
in the focus on challenges, achievements and future perspectives
in the crystallisation of gender activism and studies in
Africa.
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 December 2004; 184 pages ISBN: 2-86978-140-7
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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Babere Kerata Chacha
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Amanda Gouws
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Josephine Ahikire
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Ayodele Ogundipe
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Charmaine Pereira
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Mansah Prah
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Charles Ukeje
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Felicia Arudo Yieke
Contents
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Contributors
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v |
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Preface
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vii |
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Chapter 1
Locating Gender and Women’s Studies in Nigeria:
What Trajectories for the Future?
Charmaine Pereira |
1 |
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Chapter 2
Chasing Illusions and Realising Visions: Reflections on
Ghana’s Feminist Experience Mansah Prah |
27 |
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Chapter 3
Establishing Gender Studies Programmes in South Africa: The
Role of Gender Activism
Amanda Gouws |
41 |
Chapter 4
Locating Gender Studies in the Pan African Ideal: A
Reflection on Progress and Possibilities in Uganda
Josephine Ahikire |
54 |
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Chapter 5
From Aba to Ugborodo: Gender Identity and Alternative
Discourse of Social Protest Among Women in the Oil Delta of
Nigeria
Charles Ukeje |
66 |
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Chapter 6
Gender and Culture in Indigenous Films in Nigeria
Ayodele Ogundipe |
88 |
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Chapter
7
Conceptions of Gender in Colonial and Post-colonial
Discourses:
The Case of Mozambique
Signe Arnfred |
108 |
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Chapter
8
Traversing Gender and Colonial Madness: Same-Sex
Relationships, Customary Law and Change in Tanzania,
1890–1990
Babere Kerata Chacha |
129 |
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Chapter 9
Collaborators or Warriors? A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the
Discourse Patterns of Men and Women in their Claim for Space
in the Public/Formal Workplace
Felicia Arudo Yieke |
152 |
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