Being and becoming gender, culture and shifting identity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Being and becoming: gender, culture and shifting identity in Sub-Saharan Africa

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Bibliographic Details
Statement of responsibility:edited by Chinyere Ukpokolo
Other Authors: Ukpokolo, Chinyere (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bamenda : Spears Media Press, 2016
Physical Description:xi, 264 Seiten : Illustrationen
ISBN:9781942876076
FIV classifikation:
RF (Africa south of Sahara) ;
SG02.02 (Social groups) ;
SG08 (Culture / Language / Arts)
FIV-Subjects:
Afrika südlich der Sahara ;
Frauen ;
Identität ;
Identitätskonstruktion ;
Geschlechterrolle/Geschlechterverhältnis ;
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FIV-Aspects:
Kulturelle Veranstaltung ;
Nigeria ;
Ibo ;
Yoruba ;
Muslime ;
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Table of Contents:
  • Abosede Priscilla Ipadeola: What's wrong with essentialism anyway? African women and the question of identity 13. - Sabine Jell-Bahlsen: Gender in Owu, a timed masquerade festival of the Riverine Igbo, Southeast Nigeria 29. - Elizabeth Kyazike: Gender, socialisation and construction of a Muganda woman identity 49. - Oluwakemi Abiodun Adesina: The violence of silence and the limits of community: the Ikale woman in twenty-first century Nigeria 71. - Aisha Balarabe Bawa: Gender, Identity and Change: the case of Muslim women in Northern Nigeria 95. - Chinyere Ukpokolo: Economic survival, masculinity and shifting cultural definition of the woman's identity in a rural Igbo society 111. - Samuel Oluwole Ogundele: Indigenous palm oil production in Orile-Owu, Nigeria: a gendered technical and economic practice 137. - Tapiwa Praise Mapuranga: Religion and the participation of woman in politics in Zimbabwe: changing identities and perspectives (1960s - 2014) 153. - Walter Gam Nkwi: Contesting the margins of mo