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African Feminist Politics of Knowledge

Author : Signe Arnfred
Publisher : Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN 13 : 9789171066626
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (666 download)

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Download or read book African Feminist Politics of Knowledge written by Signe Arnfred and published by Nordic Africa Institute. This book was released on 2009 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AFRICAN FEMINIST POLITICS OF KNOWLEDGE is a bookthat aims to expose the dilemmas and conflicts that feminist researchers and practitioners living and/or working in the Global South have to deal with on a daily basis. The bookattempts to disentangle some of these dilemmas and tensions in, challenges to, but also possibilities for feminist research and activism in the context of the cultures, practices and expectations of university bureaucracies, donor agenciesand North-South collaboration. All the authors, living and working in Denmark, Ghana, Nigeria, Mozambique and South Africa, are researchers and activists.They theorise from their experiences as persons who are based in, or have worked in Africa, highlighting the dilemmas and conflicts they face as academics and researchers on one hand, and dependence on donor funding on the other.

The Politics of Cultural Knowledge

Author : Njoki Wane
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9460914810
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (69 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Cultural Knowledge written by Njoki Wane and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-10-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The advent and implementation of European colonialism have disrupted innumerable epistemological geographies around the globe. Countless cultural ways of knowing and local educational practices have in some way been displaced and dislocated within the universalizing project of the Euro-Colonial Empire. This book revisits the colonial relations of culture and education, questions various embedded imperial procedures and extricates the strategic offerings of local ways of knowing which resisted colonial imposition. The contributors of this collection are concerned with the ways in which colonial education forms the governing edict for local peoples. In The Politics of Cultural Knowledge, the authors offer an alternative reading of conventional discussions of culture and what counts as knowledge concerning race, class, gender, sexuality, identity, and difference in the context of the Diaspora.

Feminist African Philosophy

Author : Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000636194
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Feminist African Philosophy written by Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-26 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book argues that women's perspectives and gender issues must be mainstreamed across African philosophy in order for the discipline to truly represent the thoughts of Africans across the continent. African philosophy as an academic discipline emerged as a direct challenge to Western and Eurocentric hegemonies. It sought to actualize the project of decolonization and to contribute African perspectives to global discourses. There has, however, been a dominance of male perspectives in this field of human knowledge. This book argues that African philosophy cannot claim to have liberated people of African descent from marginalization until the androcentric nature of African philosophy is addressed. Key concepts such as Ujamaa, Negritude, Ubuntu, Consciencism, and African Socialism are explored as they relate to African women's lives or as models of inclusion or exclusion from politics. In addition to offering a feminist critique of African philosophy, the book also discusses topics that have been consistently overlooked in African philosophy. These topics include sex, sexuality, rape, motherhood, prostitution, and the low participation of women in politics. By highlighting the work of women feminist scholars such as Oyeronke Oyewumi, Nkiru Nzegwu, Ifi Amadiume, Amina Mama, and Bibi Bakare-Yusuf, the book engages with African philosophy from an African feminist viewpoint. This book will be an essential resource for students and researchers of African philosophy and gender studies.

African Feminism

Author : Gwendolyn Mikell
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812215809
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (158 download)

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Download or read book African Feminism written by Gwendolyn Mikell and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is the best thing I've seen on the question--not only of 'feminism' in its African articulation but also, more generally, on the question of how feminism emerges and what it means to those who espouse it."--Joan Scott, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton

Black Feminist Thought

Author : Patricia Hill Collins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135960135
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)

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Download or read book Black Feminist Thought written by Patricia Hill Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-06-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In spite of the double burden of racial and gender discrimination, African-American women have developed a rich intellectual tradition that is not widely known. In Black Feminist Thought, Patricia Hill Collins explores the words and ideas of Black feminist intellectuals as well as those African-American women outside academe. She provides an interpretive framework for the work of such prominent Black feminist thinkers as Angela Davis, bell hooks, Alice Walker, and Audre Lorde. The result is a superbly crafted book that provides the first synthetic overview of Black feminist thought.

African Women and Feminism

Author : Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book African Women and Feminism written by Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2003 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora

Author : Toyin Falola
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351711210
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora written by Toyin Falola and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora addresses the question of to what extent the history of gender in Africa is appropriately inscribed in narratives of power, patriarchy, migration, identity and women and men’s subjection, emasculation and empowerment. The book weaves together compelling narratives about women, men and gender relations in Africa and the African Diaspora from multidisciplinary perspectives, with a view to advancing original ways of understanding these subjects. The chapters achieve three things: first, they deliberately target long-held but erroneous notions about patriarchy, power, gender, migration and masculinity in Africa and of the African Diaspora, vigorously contesting these, and debunking them; second, they unearth previously marginalized and little known his/herstories, depicting the dynamics of gender and power in places ranging from Angola to Arabia to America, and in different time periods, decidedly gendering the previously male-dominated discourse; and third, they ultimately aim to re-write the stories of women and gender relations in Africa and in the African Diaspora. As such, this work is an important read for scholars of African history, gender and the African Diaspora. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of African Studies, Diaspora Studies, Gender and History.

Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge

Author : Obioma Nnaemeka
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313068747
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge written by Obioma Nnaemeka and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-07-30 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heated debates about and insurgencies against female circumcision are symptoms of a disease emanating from a mindset that produced hierarchies of humans, conquered colonies, and built empires. The loss of colonies and empires does not in any way mitigate the ideological underpinnings of empire-building and the knowledge construction that subtends it. The mindset finds its articulation at points of coalescence. Female circumcision provided a point of coalescence and impetus for this articulation. Insisting that the hierarchy on which the imperialist project rests is not bipolar but multi-layered and more complex, the contributions in this volume demonstrate how imperialist discourses complicate issues of gender, race, and history. Nnaemeka gives voice to the silenced and marginalized, and creates space for them to participate in knowledge construction and theory making. The authors in this volume trace the travels of imperial and colonial discourses from antecedents in anthropology, travel writings, and missionary discourse, to modern configurations in films, literature, and popular culture. The contributors interrogate foreign, or Western, modus operandi and interventions in the so-called Third World and show how the resistance they generate can impede development work and undermine the true collaboration and partnership necessary to promote a transnational feminist agenda. With great clarity and in simple, accessible language, the contributors present complex ideas and arguments which hold significant implications for transnational feminism and development.

African Women, Ict and Neoliberal Politics

Author : Assata Zerai
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367788155
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (881 download)

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Download or read book African Women, Ict and Neoliberal Politics written by Assata Zerai and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written from an African feminist scholar-activist perspective, the book emphasizes the voices of women and demonstrates how their framings are important when we consider science and technology in society.

Sensuous Knowledge

Author : Minna Salami
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062877097
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (628 download)

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Download or read book Sensuous Knowledge written by Minna Salami and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-03-31 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The creator of the internationally popular, multiple award-winning blog MsAfropolitan applies an Africa-centered feminist sensibility to issues of racism and sexism, challenging our illusions about oppression and liberation and daring women to embrace their power. Sensuous Knowledge is a collection of thought provoking essays that explore questions central to how we see ourselves, our history, and our world. What does it mean to be oppressed? What does it mean to be liberated? Why do women choose to follow authority even when they can be autonomous? What is the cost of compromising one’s true self? What narratives particularly subjugate women and people of African heritage? What kind of narrative can heal and empower? As she considers these questions, Salami offers fresh insights on key cultural issues that impact women’s lives, including power, beauty, and knowledge. She also examines larger subjects, such as Afrofuturism, radical Black feminism, and gender politics, all with a historical outlook that is also future oriented. Combining a storyteller’s narrative playfulness and a social critic’s intellectual rigor, Salami draws upon a range of traditions and ideologies, feminist theory, popular culture—including insights from Ms. Lauryn Hill, Beyoncé, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, and others—science, philosophy, African myths and origin stories, and her own bold personal narrative to establish a language for change and self-liberation. Sensuous Knowledge inspires reflection and challenge us to formulate or own views. Using ancestral knowledge to steer us toward freedom, Salami reveals the ways that women have protested over the years in large and small ways—models that inspire and empower us to define our own sense of womanhood today. In this riveting meditation, Salami ask women to break free of the prison made by ingrained male centric biases, and build a house themselves—a home that can nurture us all.

Producing Inclusive Feminist Knowledge

Author : Akosua Adomako Ampofo
Publisher : Emerald Group Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800711727
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Producing Inclusive Feminist Knowledge written by Akosua Adomako Ampofo and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the global South there is potential for politics to marginalize the diverse perspectives of subaltern communities. Exploring ongoing and new feminist dialogues in the global South, this book examines the ways in which dominant epistemologies are challenged, unique identities formed, and the implications for the global feminist agenda.

African Feminist Praxis

Author : Jessica Horn
Publisher : SAGE Publications Limited
ISBN 13 : 1529610168
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book African Feminist Praxis written by Jessica Horn and published by SAGE Publications Limited. This book was released on 2024-12-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So much of the story of African resistance has been told in the masculine, tracing the history of spectacle: great struggles, great speeches, the grand displays of nation building. This book adds to the literature that reverses this, exploring the flesh and breadth of contemporary African feminist politics as articulated across the African continent. It is structured around the key principles of kinship, courage, pleasure, care and memory, and draws on the African feminist academic canon, the "grey literature" of practitioner knowledge and narratives of feminists activists themselves. Through this it evidences the argument that African feminist praxis is fundamentally a politics of proposition, a mode of liberatory worldmaking.

Technology, Gender, and Power in Africa

Author : Patricia Stamp
Publisher : IDRC
ISBN 13 : 0889365385
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (893 download)

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Download or read book Technology, Gender, and Power in Africa written by Patricia Stamp and published by IDRC. This book was released on 1990 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Technology, Gender and Power in Africa

Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production

Author : G. Mitchell-Walthour
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137553944
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (375 download)

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Download or read book Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production written by G. Mitchell-Walthour and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this co-edited volume, Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour and Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman have invited contributors of African descent from the United States and Brazil to reflect on their multidimensional experiences in the field as researchers, collaborators, and allies to communities of color. Contributors promote an interdisciplinary perspective, as they represent the fields of sociology, political science, anthropology, and the humanities. They engage W.E.B. Du Bois' notion of 'second-sight,' which suggests that the unique positionality of Black researchers might provide them with advantages in their empirical observations and knowledge production. They expose the complex and contradictory efforts, discourses, and performances that Black researchers must use to implement and develop their community-centered research agenda. They illustrate that 'second-sight' is not inevitable but must be worked at and is sometimes not achieved in certain research and cultural contexts.

BEYOND OUR IMAGINATIONS

Author : Simi Afonja
Publisher : ChudacePublishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book BEYOND OUR IMAGINATIONS written by Simi Afonja and published by ChudacePublishing. This book was released on 2022-06-17 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond our Imaginations: African Women’s Realities is the product of dialogues on Gender and Feminism in the region of Africa. It is the first in the series “Feminism Visions of Society.” The book provides a balanced review of Western and West African theories and of participatory methodologies paying particular attention to the exclusion of grassroots feminism from the growing body of knowledge and action. It builds on existing essentialist theorizing without disregarding the overlaps with feminism in other cultures. Cultural knowledge is extended in discussions of grassroots women’s loss of power and voice through changing gender images; the declining culture of the Deitification of Motherhood; Women’s Leadership in Modern Markets; Female Traditional Rulership; and Women’s Influence in Community Development and Peace Building. This book helps to understand why too often there are gaps between theory and the policies designed to improve African Women’s lives. There is also a repertoire of qualitative data about feminist practices and strategies at the household level, in the workplace, and the political domains as part of the patriarchal bargain in African cultures. While the collection celebrates the importance of the imagination in building feminist knowledge, it takes a more cautionary stand, calls for methodological flexibility and sophistication as African scholars expand feminist knowledge.

Black Feminist Thought, 30th Anniversary Edition

Author : Patricia Hill Collins
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000506800
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Black Feminist Thought, 30th Anniversary Edition written by Patricia Hill Collins and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-05-16 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the first major update to this classic book in many years, Collins traces the history and contours of Black women’s ideas and actions to argue that Black feminist thought is the discourse that fosters Black women’s survival, persistence, and success against the odds. Through meticulous research that synthesizes the important intellectual work done by Black women, Collins’s timely update demonstrates that Black women’s ideas and actions are not marginal concerns but rather are central to the future of social justice within democratic societies. The combination of the text’s classic arguments and a preface and epilogue written expressly for this edition speak to people who have long been working on social justice and to a new generation of readers who are encountering the ideas and actions of Black women for the first time. For this 30th year anniversary edition, Patricia Hill Collins examines how the ideas in this classic text speak to contemporary social issues and identifies the directions needed for the future of Black feminist thought.

The Politics of (M)Othering

Author : Obioma Nnaemeka
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134774389
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (347 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of (M)Othering written by Obioma Nnaemeka and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-08-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection is a study of African literature framed by the central, and multi-faceted, idea of 'mother' - motherland, mothertongue, motherwit, motherhood, mothering - looking at the paradoxical location of (m)other as both central and marginal. Whilst the volume stands as a sustained feminist analysis, it engages feminist theory itself by showing how issues in feminism are, in African literature, recast in different and complex ways.