Karen Bouwer
Biographic Data
| ID | 5156043 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Karen Bouwer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Karen |
| FAMILY NAME | Bouwer |
| SIGNATURE | BOUWER K |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Van Velzen Sisters - Femke Van Velzen and Ilse Van Velzen. Fighting the Silence
THE VAN VELZEN SISTERS - Femke van Velzen and Ilse van Velzen. Fighting the Silence: Sexual Violence against Women in the Congo. 2007. Netherlands and Congo. French and Swahili with English subtitles. 53 minutes. Women Make Movies. $295.00. - Volume 56 Issue 2
Andrée Blouin
A ndrée Blouin was born in Obangui-Chari (today Central African Republic) in 1921 to Josephine Wouassimba, a fourteen-year-old Banziri girl from the Kwango region, and Pierre Gerbillat, a French colonial businessman. She was placed in a Brazzaville orphanage for children of mixed race at the age of three, ran away when she was seventeen, and fell prey to mistreatment by white men, first as concubine and later as wife. Traveling to Guinea in the 1…
Césaire’s Lumumba
I n this exchange from Aimé Césaire’s A Season in the Congo , Lumumba actualizes the tendency in nationalist discourse to turn women into symbols of the country. What is striking is that the dialogue features a moment of resistance on the part of Pauline. Critics tend to present Pauline the wife as clinging to the personal or emphasize her materiality and oppose her stance to Lumumba the hero’s quest and transcendent spirituality. In a work that …
Peck’s Personal Lumumba
The camera’s low angle captures the face of a man distorted by hatred. He raises a rock above his head to strike his victim, who is revealed in a reverse angle shot to be a bare-breasted woman. These African figures sculpted in black rock are still on display at the Royal Museum of Africa in Tervuren outside of Brussels. The woman’s nudity exposes the exoticizing gaze of the artist while the subject matter constructs African masculinity as brute …
Gender and Decolonization in the Congo
Patrice Lumumba s legacy continues to fire the imagination of politicians, activists, and artists. But women have been missing from accounts of the Congo s decolonization. What new ideals of masculini
Peace Profile
Women and Water
Soaking in a warm bath or taking a long shower are relaxing luxuries we tend to take for granted in the United States and many other parts of the developed world. Water fountains and bottled water
Identity and Beyond
This Discussion Paper presents the plenary presentations by the three main speakers during the Nordic Africa Days, with an introduction offering an overview and comment on the various approaches on Gender and Power in African Contexts, Africanity as an Open Question and Rethinking Power in Africa
Moving Forward, Looking Back
Recommended books
Reflexive Modernization: Polities, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modem Social Order. Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens & Scott Lash. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994). The Spirit of Freedom: South African Leaders on Religion and Politics. Charles Villa‐Vicencio. Foreword by Thomas G. Karis. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). Interviews with Neville Alexander, Ray Alexander, Franz Auerbach, Cheryl Carolus, Frank Chikane, Shee…
Gender and Decolonization in the Congo
Patrice Lumumba s legacy continues to fire the imagination of politicians, activists, and artists. But women have been missing from accounts of the Congo s decolonization. What new ideals of masculini
Recommended books
Reflexive Modernization: Polities, Tradition and Aesthetics in the Modem Social Order. Ulrich Beck, Anthony Giddens & Scott Lash. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1994). The Spirit of Freedom: South African Leaders on Religion and Politics. Charles Villa‐Vicencio. Foreword by Thomas G. Karis. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1996). Interviews with Neville Alexander, Ray Alexander, Franz Auerbach, Cheryl Carolus, Frank Chikane, Shee…
Moving Forward, Looking Back
Identity and Beyond
This Discussion Paper presents the plenary presentations by the three main speakers during the Nordic Africa Days, with an introduction offering an overview and comment on the various approaches on Gender and Power in African Contexts, Africanity as an Open Question and Rethinking Power in Africa
Women and Water
Soaking in a warm bath or taking a long shower are relaxing luxuries we tend to take for granted in the United States and many other parts of the developed world. Water fountains and bottled water
Peace Profile
Andrée Blouin
A ndrée Blouin was born in Obangui-Chari (today Central African Republic) in 1921 to Josephine Wouassimba, a fourteen-year-old Banziri girl from the Kwango region, and Pierre Gerbillat, a French colonial businessman. She was placed in a Brazzaville orphanage for children of mixed race at the age of three, ran away when she was seventeen, and fell prey to mistreatment by white men, first as concubine and later as wife. Traveling to Guinea in the 1…
Césaire’s Lumumba
I n this exchange from Aimé Césaire’s A Season in the Congo , Lumumba actualizes the tendency in nationalist discourse to turn women into symbols of the country. What is striking is that the dialogue features a moment of resistance on the part of Pauline. Critics tend to present Pauline the wife as clinging to the personal or emphasize her materiality and oppose her stance to Lumumba the hero’s quest and transcendent spirituality. In a work that …
Peck’s Personal Lumumba
The camera’s low angle captures the face of a man distorted by hatred. He raises a rock above his head to strike his victim, who is revealed in a reverse angle shot to be a bare-breasted woman. These African figures sculpted in black rock are still on display at the Royal Museum of Africa in Tervuren outside of Brussels. The woman’s nudity exposes the exoticizing gaze of the artist while the subject matter constructs African masculinity as brute …
Gender and Decolonization in the Congo
Patrice Lumumba s legacy continues to fire the imagination of politicians, activists, and artists. But women have been missing from accounts of the Congo s decolonization. What new ideals of masculini
The Van Velzen Sisters - Femke Van Velzen and Ilse Van Velzen. Fighting the Silence
THE VAN VELZEN SISTERS - Femke van Velzen and Ilse van Velzen. Fighting the Silence: Sexual Violence against Women in the Congo. 2007. Netherlands and Congo. French and Swahili with English subtitles. 53 minutes. Women Make Movies. $295.00. - Volume 56 Issue 2
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