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      Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora
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      Contesting History and Power

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      Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora book

      Contesting History and Power
      Edited ByToyin Falola, Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2017
      eBook Published 21 June 2017
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315177717
      Pages 292
      eBook ISBN 9781315177717
      Subjects Area Studies, Humanities, Social Sciences
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      Falola, T., & Yacob-Haliso, O. (Eds.). (2017). Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora: Contesting History and Power (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315177717

      ABSTRACT

      Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora addresses the question of to what extent the history of gender in Africa is appropriately inscribed in narratives of power, patriarchy, migration, identity and women and men’s subjection, emasculation and empowerment. The book weaves together compelling narratives about women, men and gender relations in Africa and the African Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives, with a view to advancing original ways of understanding these subjects.

      The chapters achieve three things: first, they deliberately target long-held but erroneous notions about patriarchy, power, gender, migration and masculinity in Africa and of the African Diaspora, vigorously contesting these, and debunking them; second, they unearth previously marginalized and little known his/herstories, depicting the dynamics of gender and power in places ranging from Angola to Arabia to America, and in different time periods, decidedly gendering the previously male-dominated discourse; and third, they ultimately aim to re-write the stories of women and gender relations in Africa and in the African Diaspora. As such, this work is an important read for scholars of African history, gender and the African Diaspora.

      This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African Studies, Diaspora Studies, Gender and History.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |16 pages

      Introduction

      Gendering knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora
      ByOlajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Toyin Falola

      part I|247 pages

      (Re-)writing gender in African and African Diaspora history

      chapter 1|24 pages

      The Bantu Matrilineal Belt

      Reframing African women’s history
      ByRhonda M. Gonzales, Christine Saidi, Catherine Cymone Fourshey

      chapter 2|21 pages

      REMAPping the African Diaspora

      Place, gender and negotiation in Arabian slavery
      ByAlaine S. Hutson

      chapter 3|21 pages

      Communicating feminist ethics in the age of New Media in Africa

      BySharon Adetutu Omotoso

      part II|179 pages

      Gender, migration and identity

      chapter 4|24 pages

      Transnational feminist solidarity, Black German women and the politics of belonging

      ByTiffany N. Florvil

      chapter 5|16 pages

      Beyond disability

      The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and female heroism in Manu Herbstein’s Ama
      BySenayon Olaoluwa

      chapter 6|14 pages

      Reverse migration of Africans in the Diaspora

      Foregrounding a woman’s quest for her roots in Tess Akaeke Onwueme’s Legacies
      ByMethuselah Jeremiah

      part III|23 pages

      Gender, subjection and power

      chapter 7|21 pages

      Queens in flight

      Fela Kuti’s Afrobeat Queens and the performance of “Black” feminist Diasporas
      ByDotun Ayobade

      chapter 8|24 pages

      Women and tfu in Wimbum Community, Cameroon

      ByElias K. Bongmba

      chapter 9|17 pages

      Women’s agency and peacebuilding in Nigeria’s Jos crises

      ByOmotola Adeyoju Ilesanmi

      chapter 10|35 pages

      Contesting the notions of “thugs and welfare queens”

      Combating Black 1 derision and death
      ByLeamon Bazil

      chapter 11|13 pages

      Culture of silence and gender development in Nigeria

      ByGift U. Ntiwunka, Rachael Oluseye Iyanda

      chapter 12|11 pages

      Emasculation, social humiliation and psychological castration in Irene’s More than Dancing

      ByMobolanle E. Sotunsa, Francis O. Jegede
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