Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Africa (African World

Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Africa (African World Series)

This book is a collection of significant analytical and critical writings on how the structures of power have exerted systematic governance over women. Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Africa also addresses how the rhetorical devices of tradition and modernity have played important roles in the control and appropriation of African women's bodies. The chapters draw on history, literature, political science, journalism, sociology, comparative studies, and women and gender studies to offer multidisciplinary perspectives from which to understand the diversity of women's experiences, gender issues, and sexualities as they intersect with class, race, ethnicity, and nationality.

This volume not only shows how the macro-narratives of colonialism and post-colonialism provide frameworks for understanding the micro-narratives of empowerment and disempowerment of women, but also considers resistance strategies women have used to guard against the subjugation of their bodies and sexualities. Themes covered include constructions of African motherhood and womanhood, femininity and health, gender and sexual representations and contestations, and gendered nationalism and culture. Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Africa is not only an important sourcebook, but it also speaks to a broad spectrum of readers from a multidisciplinary perspective.

This book is part of the African World Series, edited by Toyin Falola, Frances Higginbotham Nalle Centennial Professor in History, University of Texas at Austin.
Country USA
Manufacturer Carolina Academic Press
Binding Paperback
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781611631531
ReleaseDate 0000-00-00

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Carolina Academic Press
Binding	Paperback
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781611631531
ReleaseDate	0000-00-00

Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Africa (African World Series)

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