ABSTRACT
This volume sets out to explore, propose, and generate feminist theories based on African indigenous philosophies and concepts. It investigates specific philosophical and ethical concepts that emerge from African indigenous religions and considers their potential for providing feminist imagination for social justice-oriented earth communities. The contributions examine African indigenous concepts such as Ubuntu, ancestorhood, trickster discourse, Mupo, Akwaaba, Tukumbeng, Eziko, storytelling, and Ngozi . They look to deconstruct oppressive social categories of gender, class, ethnicity, race, colonialism, heteronormativity, and anthropocentricism. The book will be of interest to scholars of religion, philosophy, gender studies, and African studies.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|43 pages
Gender, the living, the dead, and conceptual theories
chapter 2|17 pages
Ngozi (the justice-seeking spirit) as a form of restorative justice among the Shona people of Zimbabwe
part II|34 pages
Gender, philosophy, and ethics of hospitality
part III|42 pages
Gender, ethics, and philosophies of resistance
part IV|45 pages
Gender, sage spaces, and ways of knowing and being
chapter 10|22 pages
Women and shrines in African indigenous religion
part V|46 pages
Gender, ethics, and African political philosophy