African Gender Research and Postcoloniality
Legacies and Challenges
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20079954 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Desirée Lewis (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Pages | 381-395 |
| Publication date | 2005-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | CHAPTER |
| Venue | African Gender Studies (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan US (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1007/978-1-137-09009-6_21 |
| OpenAlex | W2494120557 |
| ISBN | 9781137090096 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 10 |
Much African gender research draws extensively on the discipline of anthropology, and the predominant emphasis in many gender initiatives on the continent remains technocratic and narrowly developmentalist. Alternatives to traditional anthropological and technicist methods and ideas have been developed by feminist scholars in a variety of fields. In historical research from the late 80s, for example, Fatima Mernissi (1988) and Bonlanle Awe (1991) explored the need for "herstory" in African historiography, with their comprehensive accounts of women's agency and subordination transcending the limitations of insular anthropology and developmentalism. Developing these themes in more recent work, Cheryl Johnson-Odim and Nina Mba in For Women and the Nation (1997) link the texture of historical process to a Nigerian woman's life narrative in order to approach issues of gender and development from a holistic and humanist point of view
Agency (philosophy) · Art · Developmentalism · Historiography · Humanism · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Subordination (linguistics) · Technocracy · African history and culture studies · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues · Anthropology · Gender Politics and Representation · Gender Studies
What's Gendered about Gender-Based Violence
Researching gender
Building Transnational Feminist Alliances
Women, Gender, and Development in Africa
Introduction
Women, Gender, and Development in Africa
Women, Gender, and Development in Africa
Mulheres, Raça e Etnicidades
A Literature Review on the State of Research on Women’s Contribution to South Africa’s Liberation Struggle
Introduction
The Unnamed
The sociology of gender in Southern perspective
Women’s advancement into leadership in tourism and hospitality
Wives at the Market Place
Becoming Postcolonial
I am a man!’ The Daily Sun campaign and gender violence
Whirling worlds? Women's poetry, feminist imagination and contemporary South African publics
Gender relations in the workplace
Feminist research methodologies and development
Women, Agency, and the State in Guinea
Youth at the crossroads
True fictions”
Dissonant intimacies
| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,1 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2026 (22) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 20 |