Gendered Encounters is an important contribution to contemporary debates on globalization, culture, and gender in Africa. Noted scholars from anthropology, history, comparative literature, and political science demonstrate that gender has to be an integral part of any attempt to understand local/glo...

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Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	New York [u.a.] Routledge 1997
Schlagworte:	Femmes - Afrique Rôle selon le sexe - Afrique Sekseverschillen Frau Geschlechtsunterschied Sex role > Africa Women > Africa Geschlechterrolle Soziale Situation Afrique - Civilisation Afrika Africa > Civilization
Zusammenfassung:	Gendered Encounters is an important contribution to contemporary debates on globalization, culture, and gender in Africa. Noted scholars from anthropology, history, comparative literature, and political science demonstrate that gender has to be an integral part of any attempt to understand local/global intersections. Through analyses of specific social and cultural phenomena, the contributors show how translocal and transnational cultural currents are mediated by gender, how they reshape gender constructions and relations, and how they both manifest and impinge on relations of power. Gendered Encounters makes it clear that change has been as significant as continuity in the making of culture, and that cultural creativity in Africa both antedates and continues alongside late twentieth-century technological developments. This volume will appeal to scholars and students of Africa as well as to specialists in anthropology, gender studies, history, and cultural studies.
Beschreibung:	VIII, 254 S.
ISBN:	0415916429