New volumes from Codesria
Three new volumes are available from Codesria. They are: Gender, Economies and Entitlements in Africa; Gender Activism and Studies in Africa; and African Gender Scholarship: Concepts, Methodologies and Paradigms. For more details click on the link below.
African Gender Scholarship: Concepts, Methodologies and Paradigms
CODESRIA Gender Series Volume 1
Published November 2004; 110 pages ISBN: 2-86978-138-5
A distinctive contribution of African feminist and gender scholarship has been a conscious effort to draw from, and simultaneously rethink, concepts, paradigms and methodologies that are often taken for granted both in conventional and in mainstream feminist scholarship. This with a view to enriching them with perspectives sensitive to the encounters, cultures, economic and socio-political predicaments that have shaped and been shaped by gender relations in Africa.
Volume I brings together essays by some of the leading names on gender studies in Africa, as a major contribution to these concerns. Situating themselves variously in relation to claims and counter claims on the universalisms and particularisms in African feminism and gender studies, the authors de-bate the relative (de)-merits of Eurocentrism, African epistemologies and cultures, colonial legacies, postcolonial realities, and other current dilemmas and challenges in understanding and articulating African feminism and gender research. Practiced and budding scholars should find this a fascinating read.
The CODESRIA Gender Series acknowledges the need to challenge the masculinities underpinning the structures of repression that target women. The series aims to keep alive and nourish African social science research with insightful research and debates that challenge conventional wisdom, structures and ideologies that are narrowly informed by caricatures of gender realities. It strives to showcase the best in African gender research and provide a platform for the emergence of new talents to flower.
Published November 2004; 110 pages ISBN: 2-86978-138-5
Rest of the world: 15.00 USD; Africa: non-CFA 10.50 USD; CFA 6,000
Contributors
Signe Arnfred
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
Edward Waswa Kisiang'ani
Desiree Lewis
Oyeronke Oyewumi
Filomina Chioma Steady
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1
Conceptualising Gender: Eurocentric Foundations of Feminist Concepts and the Challenge of African Epistemologies
Oyeronke Oyewumi
Chapter 2
Decolonising Gender Studies in Africa
Edward Namisiko Waswa Kisiang'ani
Chapter 3
African Gender Research and Postcoloniality: Legacies and Challenges
Desiree Lewis
Chapter 4
An Investigative Framework for Gender Research in Africa in the New Millennium
Filomina Chioma Steady
Chapter 5
'Yorubas Don't Do Gender': A Critical Review of Oyeronke Oyewumi's The Invention of Women: Making An African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
Bibi Bakare-Yusuf
Chapter 6
Gender Research in Africa: Dilemmas and Challenges as Seen by an Outsider
Signe Arnfred
For orders:
Africa:
Publications and Dissemination
CODESRIA
Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop x Canal IV
BP 3304
CP 18524, Dakar, Senegal
Email: [email protected]
Rest of the world:
African Books Collective
The Jam Factory
27 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HU
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.africanbookscollective.com
Gender Activism and Studies in Africa
CODESRIA Gender Series Volume 3
Published December 2004; 184 pages ISBN: 2-86978-140-7
This book celebrates the successes in African struggles for gender equality and draws attention to the challenges facing the edification of gender studies, women's rights and entitlements. It brings together contributions by seasoned gender specialists who draw empirical evidence from several African countries - Nigeria, Ghana, Uganda, Mozambique, Tanzania and South Africa - to critically discuss various experiences in setting up gender and women's studies programmes, feminist and gender activism, gender identities, social protest, gender and culture in indigenous films, continuities and discontinuities in conceptions of gender, same-sex relationships, customary law, and gendered discourse patterns. Readers will find great merit in the focus on challenges, achievements and future perspectives in the crystallisation of gender activism and studies in Africa.
The CODESRIA Gender Series acknowledges the need to challenge the masculinities underpinning the structures of repression that target women. The series aims to keep alive and nourish African social science research with insightful research and debates that challenge conventional wisdom, structures and ideologies that are narrowly informed by caricatures of gender realities. It strives to showcase the best in African gender research and provide a platform for the emergence of new talents to flower.
Published December 2004; 184 pages ISBN: 2-86978-140-7
Rest of the world: 15.00 USD; Africa: non-CFA 10.50 USD; CFA 6,000
Contributors
Signe Arnfred
Babere Kerata Chacha
Amanda Gouws
Josephine Ahikire
Ayodele Ogundipe
Charmaine Pereira
Mansah Prah
Charles Ukeje
Felicia Arudo Yieke
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1
Locating Gender and Women's Studies in Nigeria:
What Trajectories for the Future?
Charmaine Pereira
Chapter 2
Chasing Illusions and Realising Visions: Reflections on Ghana's Feminist Experience Mansah Prah
Chapter 3
Establishing Gender Studies Programmes in South Africa: The Role of Gender Activism
Amanda Gouws
Chapter 4
Locating Gender Studies in the Pan African Ideal: A Reflection on Progress and Possibilities in Uganda
Josephine Ahikire
Chapter 5
From Aba to Ugborodo: Gender Identity and Alternative Discourse of Social Protest Among Women in the Oil Delta of Nigeria
Charles Ukeje
Chapter 6
Gender and Culture in Indigenous Films in Nigeria
Ayodele Ogundipe
Chapter 7
Conceptions of Gender in Colonial and Post-colonial Discourses: The Case of Mozambique
Signe Arnfred
Chapter 8
Traversing Gender and Colonial Madness: Same-Sex Relationships, Customary Law and Change in Tanzania, 1890-1990
Babere Kerata Chacha
Chapter 9
Collaborators or Warriors? A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Discourse Patterns of Men and Women in their Claim for Space in the Public/Formal Workplace
Felicia Arudo Yieke
For orders :
Africa:
Publications and Dissemination
CODESRIA
Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop x Canal IV
BP 3304
CP 18524, Dakar, Senegal
Email: [email protected]
Rest of the world:
African Books Collective
The Jam Factory
27 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HU
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.africanbookscollective.com
Gender, Economies and Entitlements in Africa
CODESRIA Gender Series Volume 2
Published December 2004; 190 pages; ISBN: 2-86978-139-3
This theoretically sophisticated and empirically grounded book draws extensively on feminist methodologies to discuss gender, economies and entitlements in Africa. It deals critically with a broad range of themes that highlight the structural insensitivities, stereotypes, injustices and inequalities that women are often victims of, despite their significant contributions to household and national economies throughout Africa. Among the issues covered are: gender relations in the family, formal education and health; gender and accessibility to resources; women's experiences of citizenship; sex identities and sex work; and globalisation, trade and gender. The book captures how, despite phenomenal structural constraints, women as economic agents have refused to celebrate victimhood.
The CODESRIA Gender Series acknowledges the need to challenge the masculinities underpinning the structures of repression that target women. The series aims to keep alive and nourish African social science research with insightful research and debates that challenge conventional wisdom, structures and ideologies that are narrowly informed by caricatures of gender realities. It strives to showcase the best in African gender research and provide a platform for the emergence of new talents to flower.
Published December 2004; 190 pages; ISBN: 2-86978-139-3
Rest of the world: 15.00 USD; Africa: non-CFA 10.50 USD; CFA 6,000
Contributors
Elizabeth Annan-Yao
Zenebe N. Bashaw
Christine G. Ishengoma
Godisang Mookodi
Grace Ongile
Charmaine Pereira
Manthiba Phalane
Richard Ssewakiryanga
Sylvia Tamale
Chris Okechukwu Uroh
Contents
Contributors
Preface
Chapter 1
Analysis of Gender Relations in the Family, Formal Education and health, Elizabeth Annan-Yao
Chapter 2
Gender Trauma in Africa: Enhancing Women's Links to Resources, Sylvia Tamale
Chapter 3
Gender and Resources: Some Macro and Micro Level Considerations
Godisang Mookodi
Chapter 4
Accessibility of Resources by Gender: The Case of Morogoro Region in Tanzania
Christine G. Ishengoma
Chapter 5
Trajectories of Women, Environmental Degradation and Scarcity: Examining Access to and Control over Resources in Ethiopia
Zenebe N. Bashaw
Chapter 6
Understanding Women's Experiences of Citizenship in Nigeria:
Charmaine Pereira
Chapter 7
Sexual Identities and Sex Work - Interrogating the Interface: A Study on Constructed Identities Among Female Sex Workers in Kampala
Richard Ssewakiryanga
Chapter 8
Globalisation, Trade and Gender - The Key Concerns
Grace Ongile
Chapter 9
Globalisation and the Feminisation of Poverty: A South African Perspective on Expansion, Inequality and Identity Crises
Manthiba Phalane
Chapter 10
Globalization and the Question of Gender-Justice: The Nigerian Experience
Chris Okechukwu Uroh
For orders:
Africa:
Publications and Dissemination
CODESRIA
Avenue Cheikh Anta Diop x Canal IV
BP 3304
CP 18524, Dakar, Senegal
Email: [email protected]
Rest of the world:
African Books Collective
The Jam Factory
27 Park End Street, Oxford, OX1 1HU
Email: [email protected]
Web: www.africanbookscollective.com