African feminism, this landmark volume demonstrates, differs radically from the Western forms of feminism with which we have become familiar since the 1960s. African feminists are not, by and large, concerned with issues such as female control over reproduction or variation and choice within human sexuality, nor with debates about essentialism, the female body, or the discourse of patriarchy. The feminism that is slowly emerging in Africa is distinctly heterosexual, pronatal, and concerned with "bread, butter, and power" issues.
Contributors present case studies of ten African states, demonstrating that—as they fight for access to land, for the right to own property, for control of food distribution, for living wages and safe working conditions, for health care, and for election reform—African women are creating a powerful and specifically African feminism.
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"This book is the best thing I've seen on the question—not only of 'feminism' in its African articulation but also, more generally, on the question of how feminism emerges and what it means to those who espouse it."—Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
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Contributors include Tsehai Berhane-Selassie, Carlene H. Dei, Shawn Riva Donaldson, Ilsa M. Glazer, Enid Gort, Betty J. Harris, Dolores Koenig, Takyiwaa Manuh, Gwendolyn Mikell, Maria Nzomo, Brooke Grundfest Schoepf, D. J. Shehu, and Jeanne Maddox Toungara. Gwendolyn Mikell is Professor of Anthropology at Georgetown University.
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This book explores with depth and and perceptiveness the different forms Women's activism taking place within sub-saharan africa. With africa's image being over-shadowed by war and political conflict this book offers an even handed look at what is happening on the round, and how women themselves are effecting change.
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Women in the francophone country of Cote d'Ivoire are attempting to mobilize their forces so that they can play a determining role in setting national laws that affect their status as wives. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
potter women, intestate succession law, technical counselors, matrilineal communities, ordinance marriage, marriage ordinance, female textile workers, lineage property, matrilineal groups, patrilineal groups, matrilineal family, conjugal unit, customary marriage, rural women, communal fields, family legislation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, South Africa, Ivory Coast, Ministry of Agriculture, United Nations, Central Cocody, West Africa, Oxford University Press, Times of Zambia, Addis Ababa, Westview Press, University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, United States, World Bank, Palo Alto, Stanford University Press, The Hague, Daily Nation, Dolores Koenig, University of Chicago Press, Zambia Daily Mail, African Studies Review, Engundu Walu, Sokoto State New!
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Women in the francophone country of Cote d'Ivoire are attempting to mobilize their forces so that they can play a determining role in setting national laws that affect their status as wives. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
potter women, intestate succession law, technical counselors, matrilineal communities, ordinance marriage, marriage ordinance, female textile workers, lineage property, matrilineal groups, patrilineal groups, matrilineal family, conjugal unit, customary marriage, rural women, communal fields, family legislation Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, South Africa, Ivory Coast, Ministry of Agriculture, United Nations, Central Cocody, West Africa, Oxford University Press, Times of Zambia, Addis Ababa, Westview Press, University of California Press, Cambridge University Press, United States, World Bank, Palo Alto, Stanford University Press, The Hague, Daily Nation, Dolores Koenig, University of Chicago Press, Zambia Daily Mail, African Studies Review, Engundu Walu, Sokoto State New!
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- Women and Class in Africa by Claire Robertson on 6 pages
- Female and Male in West Africa by Christine Oppong on 4 pages
- New Women of Lusaka by Ilsa Glazer on page 123, page 157, and Back Matter
- African Women in the Development Process by Nicki Nelson on page 140, page 229, and page 274
- African Women and the Law: Historical Perspectives by Margaret Jean Hay in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and page 74
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- Family Matters: Feminist Concepts in African Philosophy of Culture (S U N Y Series in Feminist Philosphy) by Nkiru Nzegwu in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Women and the Remaking of Politics in Southern Africa: Negotiating Autonomy, Incorporation and Representation by Gisela Geisler in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Politics of the Womb: Women, Reproduction, and the State in Kenya by Lynn M. Thomas in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Local Women, Global Science: Fighting AIDS in Kenya by Karen M. Booth in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Local Women, Global Science: Fighting AIDS in Kenya by Karen M. Booth in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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