Gendered Encounters: Challenging Cultural Boundaries and Social Hierarchies in Africa

by Maria Grosz-Ngate (Editor), Omari Kokole (Editor)

Overview

This book makes a significant contribution to contemporary debates on "globalization," culture and gender. Focusing on intersections of the local and the global in Africa, contributors elucidate how translocal and transnational cultural currents are mediated by gender, how they reshape gender constructs and relations, and how they both manifest and impinge on relations of power.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780415916431
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/10/1996
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	266
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Maria Grosz-Ngate is an anthropologist who lives in Ithaca, NY. Omari Kokole was Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute of Global Studies, at the State University of New York, Binghamton.

Table of Contents

Introduction PART ONE WOMEN NEOOTIATINO BOUNDARIES Crossing Boundaries/Changing Identities: Female Slaves, Male Strangers, and Their Descendants in Nineteenth and Twentieth-century Anlo, Diaspora African Repatriation: The Place of Diaspora Women in the Pan-African Nexus, Popular Music, Urban Society, and Changing Gender Relations in Kinshasa, Zaire (1950-1990), PART TWO OENDER AND THE MEDIATION OF MODERNITV "To Determine the Scale of Wants of the community": Gender and African consumption, Embodying the Contradictions of Modernity: Gender and spirit possession among Maasai in Tanzania; Islam, Transnational CUlture, and Modernity in Rural Sudan, PART THREE ENOENDERINO CULTURAL FLOWS, Dying Gods and Queen Mothers: The International Politics of Social Reproduction in Africa and Europe, Foreign Tongues and Domestic Bodies: Gendered Cultural Regions and Regionalized Sacred Flows, From story to song: Gender, Nationhood, and the Migratory Text, Traffic in Men, Postlude

Editorial Reviews

"...stimulates the collaboration between literary and cultural studies on the emergence of gendered identity within relations of power, dominance, and subversion." — African Studies Review

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