Readings in gender in Africa   [electronic resource] / 
edited by Andrea Cornwall. 
 - Bloomington :   Oxford :   Indiana University Press ;   James Cur rey,   2005. 
 - vii, 247 p. ;   24 cm. 
 - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .
<br/><br/>  Published in association with the International African Institute. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>  Western perceptions of African women in the 19th & early 20th centur ies /   Status of women in indigenous Afri can societies /   Mapping African feminisms /   Down to fundamentals : women-centered hearth- holds in rural west Africa /   Male lesbians & other queer notions in Hausa /   Noise over camouflaged polygamy, colonial morality taxation, & a woman-naming cris is in Belgian Africa /   Fork up and smile : mar keting, colonial knowledge, & the female subject in Zimbabwe /   Worries of the heart : widowed mothers, daughters, & mas culinities in Maragoli, western Kenya, 1940-60 /   School fees & the marriage process for Mende girls in Sierra Leone /   "No romance without finance" : commodities, masculinities, & relationships amongst Kampalan students /   "Dangerous" love : reflections on vio lence among Xhosa township youth /   Female farming in anthropology & African history /   "Gone to their second husbands" : marital metaphors & conjugal c ontracts in the Gambia's female garden sector /   Which family? : problems in the reconstruction of the history of the family as an economic & cultural unit /   Josephine Beoku-Betts --   Niara Sudarkasa --   Obioma Nnaemeka --   Felicia A. Ekejiuba --   Rudolf P. Gaudio --   Nancy Rose Hunt --   Timot hy Burke --   Kenda Mutongi --   Caroline Bledsoe --   David Mi lls & Richard Ssewakiryanga --   Katherine Wood & Rachel Jewkes --   Jane I. Guyer --   Richard A. Schroeder --   Megan Vaughan.   Women "entrepreneurs" of early Nairobi /   Bag anda women's night market activities /   Shu nting between masculine ideals : Nigerian railwaymen in the colonial er a /   Rebels or status seekers? : women as spiri t mediums in east Africa /   Reflections on slavery, seclusion, & female labor in the Maradi region of Niger in the 19th & 20th centuries /   Gender, culture, & capitalism : women & the remaking of Islamic tradition in a Sudanese village /   Devout domesticity? : a century of African women 's Christianity in South Africa /   "Called to work for the kingdom of God" : the challenge of Presybyterian masculin ities in colonial Ghana /   Iyalode in the t raditional Yoruba political system /   Rounding up s pinsters : gender chaos & unmarried women in colonial Asante /   Tanganyikan nationalism as "women's work" : life historie s, collective biography, & changing historiography /   Gender & decolonization : a study of three women in west African pu blic life /   No shortcuts to power : constraints o n women's political effectiveness in Uganda /   Women in movement : transformations in African political landscapes /   Janet M. Bujra --   Nakanyike B. Musisi --   Lisa A. Lindsay --   Iris Berger --   Barbara Cooper --   Victorial Bernal --   Deborah Gaitskell --   Stephan F. Miescher --   Bolanle Awe --   Jean Allmann --   Susan Geiger --   Laray Denzer --   Anne Marie Goetz --   Aili Mari Tripp. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/> Sex role.<br/> Women-- Social conditions.-- Africa<br/> Masculinity-- Africa.<br/> Sex (Psychology)