"Wicked" women and the reconfiguration of gender in Africa
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"Wicked" women and the reconfiguration of gender in Africa
(Social history of Africa)
Heinemann , James Currey , David Philip, c2001
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Description
This collection of 17 essays examines the many ways African women pushed the boundaries - individually and collectively - of acceptable behaviour to produce changes in the gendered dynamics of power and a reconfiguration of broader moral and social orders. The book bridges the gap between studies of women and studies of gender by demonstrating how gender relations are produced, reproduced and transformed through the everyday ideas and agency of men and women interacting with local structures and processes.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - "wicked" women and the reconfiguration of gender in Africa, Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl McCurdy. Part 1 Contesting conjugality: women, marriage, divorce and the emerging colonial state in Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1892-1904, Judith Byfield
- "she thinks she's like a man" - marriage and deconstructing gender identity in colonial Buha, Western Tanzania, 1943-1960, Margot Lovett
- wayward women and useless men - contest and change in gender relations in Ado-Odo, South West Nigeria, Andrea Cornwall
- "gone to their second husbands" - marital metaphors and conjugal contracts in The Gambia's female garden sector, Richard A. Schroeder II. Part 2 Confronting authority: dancing women and colonial men - the "Nwaobiala" of 1925, Misty L. Bastian
- rounding up spinsters - gender chaos and unmarried women in colonial Asante, Jean Allman
- "my daughter ... belongs to the government now" - marriage, Maasai and the Tanzania state, Dorothy L. Hodgson. Part 3 Taking spaces/making spaces: gender and the cultural construction of "bad women" in the development of Kampala-Kibuga, 1900-62, Nakanyike B. Musisi
- you have left me wandering about - Basotho women and the culture of mobility, David B. Coplan
- urban threats - Manyema women, low fertility and venereal diseases in British colonial Tanganyika, 1926-36, Sheryl McCurdy
- negotiating social independence - the challenges of career pursuits for Igbo women in post-colonial Nigeria, Philomena E. Okeke. Part 4 Negotiating difference: the politics of difference and women's associations in Niger - of "prostitutes", the public and politics, Barbara M. Cooper
- "wicked women" and "respectable ladies" - reconfiguring gender on the Zambian copperbelt, 1936-64, Jane L. Parpat
- gender and profiteering -Ghana's market women as devoted mothers and "human vampire bats", Gracia Clark.
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