Catherine M. Cole is Associate Professor of Dramatic Art and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Ghana¿s Concert Party Theatre (IUP, 2001). Takyiwaa Manuh is Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, and serves as Director of the Institute of African Studies. Stephan F. Miescher is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of Making Men in Ghana (IUP, 2005).
Catherine M. Cole is Associate Professor of Dramatic Art and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Ghana¿s Concert Party Theatre (IUP, 2001). Takyiwaa Manuh is Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, and serves as Director of the Institute of African Studies. Stephan F. Miescher is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of Making Men in Ghana (IUP, 2005).
Catherine M. Cole is Associate Professor of Dramatic Art and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Ghana's Concert Party Theatre (IUP, 2001). Takyiwaa Manuh is Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, and serves as Director of the Institute of African Studies. Stephan F. Miescher is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of Making Men in Ghana (IUP, 2005).
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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 UgandaSylvia Tamale Postscript compiled by Bianca A. Murillo 2. Institutional Dilemmas: Representation versus Mobilization in the South African Gender CommissionGay W. Seidman 3. Gendered Reproduction: Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies in African HistoryLynn M. Thomas 4. Dialoging WomenNwando Achebe and Bridget Teboh Part 2. Activism and Public Space 5. Rioting Women and Writing Women: Gender, Class, and the Public Sphere in AfricaSusan Z. Andrade 6. Let Us Be United in Purpose: Variations on Gender Relations in the Yorùbá Popular TheatreAdrienne MacIain 7. Doing Gender Work in GhanaTakyiwaa Manuh 8. Women as Emergent Actors: A Survey of New Women's Organizations in Nigeria since the 1990sHussaina J. Abdullah Part 3. Gender Enactments, Gendered Perceptions 9. Constituting Subjects through Performative ActsPaulla 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 SongEileen Julien 12. Representing Culture and Identity: African Women Writers and National CulturesNana Wilson-Tagoe Part 4. Masculinity, Misogyny, and Seniority 13. Working with Gender: The Emergence of the "Male Breadwinner" in Colonial Southwestern NigeriaLisa A. Lindsay 14. Becoming an Opanyin: Elders, Gender, and Masculinities in Ghana since the Nineteenth CenturyStephan F. Miescher 15. "Give Her a Slap to Warm Her Up": Post-Gender Theory and Ghana's Popular CultureCatherine M. Cole 16. The "Post-Gender" Question in African StudiesHelen Nabasuta Mugambi The Production of Gendered Knowledge in the Digital Age Resources for Further Reading List of Contributors Index
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 UgandaSylvia Tamale Postscript compiled by Bianca A. Murillo 2. Institutional Dilemmas: Representation versus Mobilization in the South African Gender CommissionGay W. Seidman 3. Gendered Reproduction: Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies in African HistoryLynn M. Thomas 4. Dialoging WomenNwando Achebe and Bridget Teboh Part 2. Activism and Public Space 5. Rioting Women and Writing Women: Gender, Class, and the Public Sphere in AfricaSusan Z. Andrade 6. Let Us Be United in Purpose: Variations on Gender Relations in the Yorùbá Popular TheatreAdrienne MacIain 7. Doing Gender Work in GhanaTakyiwaa Manuh 8. Women as Emergent Actors: A Survey of New Women's Organizations in Nigeria since the 1990sHussaina J. Abdullah Part 3. Gender Enactments, Gendered Perceptions 9. Constituting Subjects through Performative ActsPaulla 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 SongEileen Julien 12. Representing Culture and Identity: African Women Writers and National CulturesNana Wilson-Tagoe Part 4. Masculinity, Misogyny, and Seniority 13. Working with Gender: The Emergence of the "Male Breadwinner" in Colonial Southwestern NigeriaLisa A. Lindsay 14. Becoming an Opanyin: Elders, Gender, and Masculinities in Ghana since the Nineteenth CenturyStephan F. Miescher 15. "Give Her a Slap to Warm Her Up": Post-Gender Theory and Ghana's Popular CultureCatherine M. Cole 16. The "Post-Gender" Question in African StudiesHelen Nabasuta Mugambi The Production of Gendered Knowledge in the Digital Age Resources for Further Reading List of Contributors Index
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