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

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. -- Publisher description 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 Sen. Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List Of Contributors -- Introduction: Gendering -- One: Decolonizing The Intellectual And The Quotidian: Yorùbá Scholars(hip) And Male Dominance -- Two: Gender In Translation: Efúnsetán Aníwúrà -- Three: Ode To Patriarchy: The Fine Line Between Praise And Criticism In A Popular Senegalese Poem -- Four: Women And Leadership In Nigerian Islam: The Experience Of Alhaja Sheidat Mujidat Adéoyè Of Òsogbo -- Five: Engendering Critical Spatial Literacy: Migrant Asante Women And The Politics Of Urban Space -- Six: Outsiders Within: Experiences Of Women Academics In Kenya. Seven: Self-image And Self-naming: A Discursive And Social Analysis Of Women's Microenterprises In Senegal And Malieight: Irua Ria Atumia And Anticolonial Struggles Among The Gikuyu Of Kenya: A Counternarrative On Female Genital Mutilation -- Nine: Nakabumba: God Creates Humanity As A Potter Creates A Pot -- Ten: Beyond Gendercentric Models: Restoring Motherhood To Yorùbá Discourses Of Art And Aesthetics -- Index. Edited By Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 Acknowledgments......Page 10 List of Contributors......Page 12 Introduction: Gendering......Page 14 One: Decolonizing the Intellectual and the Quotidian: Yorùbá Scholars(hip) and Male Dominance......Page 22 Two: Gender in Translation: Efúnsetán Aníwúrà......Page 48 Three: Ode to Patriarchy: The Fine Line between Praise and Criticism in a Popular Senegalese Poem......Page 76 Four: Women and Leadership in Nigerian Islam: The Experience of Alhaja Sheidat Mujidat Adéoyè of Òsogbo......Page 98 Five: Engendering Critical Spatial Literacy: Migrant Asante Women and the Politics of Urban Space......Page 114 Six: Outsiders Within: Experiences of Women Academics in Kenya......Page 132 Seven: Self-Image and Self-Naming: A Discursive and Social Analysis of Women’s Microenterprises in Senegal and Mali......Page 168 Eight: Irua Ria Atumia and Anticolonial Struggles among the Gikuyu of Kenya: A Counternarrative on “Female Genital Mutilation”......Page 192 Nine: NAKABUMBA: God Creates Humanity as a Potter Creates a Pot......Page 212 Ten: Beyond Gendercentric Models: Restoring Motherhood to Yorùbá Discourses of Art and Aesthetics......Page 236 Index......Page 252 Cover 1 Contents 8 Acknowledgments 10 List of Contributors 12 Introduction: Gendering 14 One: Decolonizing the Intellectual and the Quotidian: Yorùbá Scholars(hip) and Male Dominance 22 Two: Gender in Translation: Efúnsetán Aníwúrà 48 Three: Ode to Patriarchy: The Fine Line between Praise and Criticism in a Popular Senegalese Poem 76 Four: Women and Leadership in Nigerian Islam: The Experience of Alhaja Sheidat Mujidat Adéoyè of Òsogbo 98 Five: Engendering Critical Spatial Literacy: Migrant Asante Women and the Politics of Urban Space 114 Six: Outsiders Within: Experiences of Women Academics in Kenya 132 Seven: Self-Image and Self-Naming: A Discursive and Social Analysis of Women’s Microenterprises in Senegal and Mali 168 Eight: Irua Ria Atumia and Anticolonial Struggles among the Gikuyu of Kenya: A Counternarrative on “Female Genital Mutilation” 192 Nine: NAKABUMBA: God Creates Humanity as a Potter Creates a Pot 212 Ten: Beyond Gendercentric Models: Restoring Motherhood to Yorùbá Discourses of Art and Aesthetics 236 Index 252 023062345X,9780230623453 Palgrave Macmillan, 2011 This volume 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.