Gender Epistemologies in Africa: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities by Oyewumi, O.

Gender Epistemologies in Africa: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230623453)

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Gender Epistemologies in Africa: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities by Oyewumi, O.

Gender Epistemologies in Africa: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities

$109.99
Gender Epistemologies in Africa: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities by Oyewumi, O.

Gender Epistemologies in Africa: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities

$109.99
Format: Hardcover
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This book brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa. If gender emerges out of particular histories and social contexts, we must therefore pay attention to the histories of genderings as well as the continuous ways in which gender is made and remade in everyday interactions, and by institutions. In this sense then, "gender" is actually more about gendering-a process-rather than something inherent in social relations.

Author: O. Oyewumi
ISBN-10: 023062345X
ISBN-13: 9780230623453
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 12/14/2010
Pages: 244
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 0.80d
By O. Oyewumi
By O. Oyewumi
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OYERONKE OYEWUMI Associate Professor of Sociology at SUNY Stony Brook, USA. She was born in Nigeria and educated at the University of Ibadan and the University of California at Berkeley, Oyewumi has been widely recognized for her work. The monograph Invention won the 1998 Distinguished Book Award of the American Sociological Association and was a finalist for the Herskovitts Prize of the African Studies Association in the same year. She has garnered a number of research fellowships, including Rockefeller Fellowships, a Presidential fellowship, and a Ford Foundation grant. Oyewumi's most recent research support was a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship on Human Security (2003/2004), managed by National Council for Research on Women. (NCRW).

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