A comprehensive overview of the existing literature on gender, bringing together important and influential essays from widely disparate sources. A valuable collection for scholars and students.
This is a comprehensive overview on the existing literature on gender in Africa. It covers areas such as Western perceptions, colonial morality, religion and politics.
A student's textbook suitable for course adoption
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Twenty-eight truly fantastic essays covering themes from governance to religion to livelihoods to identity.... - -- Lara Scott * AFRICAN REVIEW OF BOOKS * Cornwall's Readings in Gender in Africa brings together existing work in a number of key areas so placing the substantial growth of transdisciplinary teaching and research in African gender studies during the last three decades beyond refute. She is to be commended for including the work of leading African scholars alongside that of their European and North American counterparts, thus providing an excellent and long overdue teaching text that works to remedy the overdetermination of African scholarship by Western institutional and intellectual interests. African gender relations emerge as a key arena of social transformation, which has inspired theoretical insights of global import. - -- Amina Mama, African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town
Introduction by Andrea Cornwall
I CONTESTED REPRESENTATIONS OF GENDER IN AFRICA
II RECONFIGURING IDENTITIES: FEMININITIES & MASCULINITIES
III LIVELIHOODS & LIFEWAYS
IV TRANSFORMING TRADITIONS: GENDER, RELIGION & CULTURE
V GENDER & GOVERNANCE
Andrea Cornwall is Professor of Global Development & Anthropology, King's College London. She is the author of Readings in Gender in Africa (2005) and co-editor of Masculinities under neoliberalism (2016).
