Gender Epistemologies in Africa

Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities

• Author(s): O. Oyewumi,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 244
• ISBN_10: 0230116272
  ISBN_13: 9780230116276
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Social Science / Anthropology / General , Social Science / General , Social Science / Sociology / General , History / Africa / General , Social Science / Gender Studies , Social Science / Ethnic Studies / General , Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social ,

Description:... 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.