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Contents Acknowledgments Introduction: When Was Gender? Stephan F. Miescher, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Catherine M. Cole Part 1. Volatile Genders and New African Women 1. Out of the Closet: Unveiling Sexuality Discourses in Uganda Sylvia Tamale Postscript compiled by Bianca A. Murillo 2. Institutional Dilemmas: Representation versus Mobilization in the South African Gender Commission Gay W. Seidman 3. Gendered Reproduction: Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies in African History Lynn M. Thomas 4. Dialoging Women Nwando Achebe and Bridget Teboh Part 2. Activism and Public Space 5. Rioting Women and Writing Women: Gender, Class, and the Public Sphere in Africa Susan Z. Andrade 6. Let Us Be United in Purpose: Variations on Gender Relations in the Yorùb Popular Theatre Adrienne MacIain 7. Doing Gender Work in Ghana Takyiwaa Manuh 8. Women as Emergent Actors: A Survey of New Women's Organizations in Nigeria since the 1990s Hussaina J. Abdullah Part 3. Gender Enactments, Gendered Perceptions 9. Constituting Subjects through Performative Acts Paulla A. Ebron 10. Gender After Africa! Eileen Boris 11. When a Man Loves a Woman: Gender and National Identity in Wole Soyinkas's Death and the King's Horseman and Mariama Bâ's Scarlet Song Eileen Julien 12. Representing Culture and Identity: African Women Writers and National Cultures Nana Wilson-Tagoe Part 4. Masculinity, Misogyny, and Seniority 13. Working with Gender: The Emergence of the "Male Breadwinner" in Colonial Southwestern Nigeria Lisa A. Lindsay 14. Becoming an [OPO]panyin: Elders, Gender, and Masculinities in Ghana since the Nineteenth Century Stephan F. Miescher 15. "Give Her a Slap to Warm Her Up": Post-Gender Theory and Ghana's Popular Culture Catherine M. Cole 16. The "Post-Gender" Question in African Studies Helen Nabasuta Mugambi The Production of Gendered Knowledge in the Digital Age Resources for Further Reading List of Contributors Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Sex role -- Africa.
Sex role -- Research -- Africa.