African Gender Studies A Reader

Chapter 1 Visualizing the Body: Western Theories and African Subjects

Chapter 2 Spirituality, Gender, and Power in Asante History

Chapter 3 Bringing African Women into the Classroom: Rethinking Pedagogy and Epistemology

Chapter 4 Decolonizing Feminism

Chapter 5 Theorizing Matriarchy in Africa: Kinship Ideologies and Systems in Africa and Europe

Chapter 6 (Re)constituting the Cosmology and Sociocultural Institutions of Òyó-Yorùbá

Chapter 7 Kò Sóhun tí Mbe tí ò Nítàn (Nothing Is that Lacks a [Hi]story): On Oyèrónké Oyěwùmí’s

Chapter 8 Women’s Roles and Existential Identities

Chapter 10 Making History, Creating Gender: Some Methodological and Interpretive Questions in the Writing of Oyo Oral Traditions

Chapter 11 Gender Biases in African Historiography

Chapter 12 Senegalese Women in Politics: A Portrait of Two Female Leaders, Arame Diène and Thioumbé Samb, 1945–1996

Chapter 13 Miscegenation as Metonymy: Sexuality and Power in the Colonial Novel

Chapter 14 Gender, Feminist Theory, and Post-Colonial (Women’s) Writing

Chapter 15 The Hidden History of Women in Ghanaian Print Culture

Chapter 16 Definitions of Women and Development: An African Perspective

Chapter 17 An Investigative Framework for Gender Research in Africa in the New Millennium

Chapter 18 The Yum: An Indigenous Model for Sustainable Development

Chapter 19 In My Father’s House: Epilogue

Chapter 20 Questions of Identity and Inheritance: A Critical Review of Kwame Anthony Appiah’s In My Father’s House

Chapter 21 African Gender Research and Postcoloniality: Legacies and Challenges

Chapter 22 African Women in the Academy and Beyond: Review Essay