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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Cornwall, Andrea > (ed.)
- Contributor
- Tripp, Aili Mari
- Publish Year
- 2005
- Shelfmark
- AFR 1A 2005
- Thesaurus
- gender, vrouwbeelden, vrouwelijkheid, mannelijkheid, rolgedrag, feminisme, homoseksualiteit, polygamie, consumenten, kolonialisme, weduwen, huwelijken, meisjes, platteland, geld, geweld, agrarische beroepen, gezinnen, inkomen, betaalde arbeid, ondernemers, spiritualiteit, slavernij, islam, christendom, politieke participatie, nationalisme, historiografie, Afrika, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw, bundel
- Description
- The writings show how gender relations have been constructed on the African continent and reflect the changes in approach and inquiry that have been brought about as the authors consider gender identities and difference in their work. Specific themes covered here include the contestation and representation of gender, femininity and masculinity: livelihoods and life ways: gender and religion, gender and culture: gender and governance.
widows, family, and community in Kenya
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Mutongi, Kenda
- Publish Year
- 2007
- Shelfmark
- AFR 1A 2007
- Thesaurus
- weduwen, kolonialisme, postkolonialisme, Afrika, 20e eeuw, 21e eeuw
- Description
- Growing up in Kenya, Kenda Mutongi encountered a perplexing contradiction. While the young teachers at her village school railed against colonialism, many of her elders, including her widowed mother, praised their former British masters. In this book Mutongi explores how both the challenges and contradictions of colonial rule and the frustrations and failures of independence shaped the lives of Maragoli widows and their complex relations with each other, their families, and the larger community. Throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first, rates of widowhood have been remarkably high in Kenya. Mutongi here argues that widows survive by publicly airing their social, economic, and political problems, their “worries of the heart.” Initially aimed at the men in their community, and then their colonial rulers, this strategy changed after independence as widows increasingly invoked the language of citizenship to demand their rights from the new leaders of Kenya —leaders whose failure to meet the needs of ordinary citizens has led to deep disenchantment and altered Kenyans’ view of their colonial past.
feminist concepts in African philosophy of culture
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- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Nzegwu, Nkiru Uwechia
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- AFR 1A 2006
- Thesaurus
- leefvormen, matriarchaat, patriarchaat, kolonialisme, feminisme, weduwen, rechtspraak, Nigeria, Afrika
- Description
- Prior to European colonialism, Igboland, a region in Nigeria, was a nonpatriarchal, nongendered society governed by separate but interdependent political systems for men and women. In the last one hundred fifty years, the Igbo family has undergone vast structural changes in response to a barrage of cultural forces. Critically rereading social practices and oral and written histories of Igbo women and the society, Nkiru Uwechia Nzegwu demonstrates how colonial laws, edicts, and judicial institutions facilitated the creation of gender inequality in Igbo society. Nzegwu exposes the unlikely convergence of Western feminist and African male judges’ assumptions about 'traditional' African values where women are subordinate and oppressed. Instead she offers a conception of equality based on historical Igbo family structures and practices that challenges the epistemological and ontological bases of Western feminist inquiry.
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