The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies

Table of Contents

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   Book Overview
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   Chapter 1 A History of African Women from Origins to 800 CE: Bold Grandmas, Powerful Queens, Audacious Entrepreneurs
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   Chapter 3 Colonialism and Gender in Africa: A Critical History
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   Chapter 4 Women, Social Movements and Political Activism in North Africa
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   Chapter 5 Women, Colonial Resistance, and Decolonization: Challenging African Histories
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   Chapter 6 African Women and the Atlantic Slave Trade
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   Chapter 8 Challenges of Writing African Women’s Histories
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   Chapter 14 Rural Women Farmers’ Grassroots Networks in Africa
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   Chapter 15 The “Subalternity” of Women in Social Movements and African Politics
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    Chapter 16 The Arab Spring and Women’s Movements in North Africa
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    Chapter 18 LGBTI+ Organizations in West Africa and North Africa: Fighting for Equal Rights
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    Chapter 19 The African Diaspora and Women’s Struggles in Africa
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    Chapter 20 The United Nations and African Women’s Movements
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    Chapter 21 African Women’s Movements and the African Union
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    Chapter 23 Women and African Traditional Religion
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    Chapter 25 Women, Islam, and the State in North Africa
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    Chapter 27 The Role of Religion and Faith Actors in Violence Against Women and Girls in Africa: Challenges, Tensions, and Promise
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    Chapter 28 African Women Traditional Chiefs and Rulers
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    Chapter 29 Women in African Marriages: Voice, Visibility, and Value
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    Chapter 30 African Queer Women Tackling Erasure and Ostracization: Love, Lust, and Lived Experience
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    Chapter 31 Gender, Disability, and Human Rights in Africa
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    Chapter 33 Widows, Widowhood, and Society in Africa
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    Chapter 34 Women and Girls’ Education in Africa: Changes and Continuities
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    Chapter 35 Women in Universities in Africa
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    Chapter 36 Women in Pastoral Societies in Africa
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    Chapter 37 African Women and HIV and AIDS
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    Chapter 38 African Young Women and Alcohol and Substance Abuse
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    Chapter 39 Girls’ Sexuality Between Agency and Vulnerability
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    Chapter 40 Womb Wisdom to Cosmic Wisdom: Women and African Spiritualities in Africa and the Diaspora
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    Chapter 41 Culture, Rights, and African Women’s Futures
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    Chapter 42 African Women Writers
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    Chapter 43 Women and North African Literatures
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    Chapter 45 African Women in Sports: A Critical Analysis of Selected Media Discourses
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    Chapter 46 African Women in African Arts: Making Art for Change
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    Chapter 47 African Women and African Oral Literatures
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    Chapter 49 African Women’s Internet Discourses
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    Chapter 50 Nollywood and Women
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    Chapter 51 African Women and the Mass Media
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    Chapter 52 African Women and Theatre for Development
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    Chapter 58 African Feminisms
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    Chapter 60 Representations of North African Women and African Islamic Religion in El Saadawi’s Zeina
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    Chapter 63 Women, Gender, and Development in Africa
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    Chapter 65 Teaching Women’s Studies in Africa
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    Chapter 66 Decolonizing the Curriculum on African Women and Gender Studies
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    Chapter 67 Women, Gender, and Knowledge Production in Anglophone Africa and Its Diaspora
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    Chapter 68 Women and Indigenous Knowledge in Africa
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    Chapter 70 Researching Women and Gender in Africa: Present Realities, Future Directions
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    Chapter 72 Women in Political Parties in Africa
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    Chapter 74 Women in Executive Political Leadership in Africa
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    Chapter 75 Women in Judiciaries Across Africa
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    Chapter 76 Women in/and the Security Sector in Africa
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    Chapter 78 Women, Activism, and the State in North Africa
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    Chapter 79 The State of LGBT Rights in Africa
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    Chapter 80 Women, Quotas, and Affirmative Action Policies in Africa
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    Chapter 84 Gender Equality Policies and African Women: A Comparative Critique
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    Chapter 85 Women’s Roles and Positions in African Wars
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    Chapter 86 Theorizing African Women and Girls in Combat: From National Liberation to the War on Terrorism
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    Chapter 87 Women and Peace Processes in Africa
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    Chapter 88 Women and Peacebuilding in Postconflict African States
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    Chapter 89 Women and Peace Education in Africa
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    Chapter 90 Women and Transitional Justice Processes in Africa
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    Chapter 91 Gendered Experiences of Refugee and Displaced Women in Africa
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    Chapter 93 Women, Terrorist Groups, and Terrorism in Africa
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    Chapter 94 UNSCR 1325 and African Women in Conflict and Peace
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    Chapter 95 The United Nations and African Women in Peace, Security, and Governance
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    Chapter 96 Sexual Offences in Africa
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    Chapter 98 Women, Trafficking, and Forced Prostitution in Africa
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    Chapter 100 Women in African Prisons
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    Chapter 101 Violence and Women’s Health in Africa
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    Chapter 102 Violence Against LGBT(QI) Persons in Africa
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    Chapter 103 Violence Against Women in North Africa
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    Chapter 104 Non-state Actors and Violence Against Women in Africa
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    Chapter 105 The Response to Gender-Based Violence in Africa
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    Chapter 106 Women, Poverty, and Empowerment in Africa
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    Chapter 108 Women, Land, and Law in Africa
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    Chapter 109 Women in Agriculture in Contemporary Africa
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    Chapter 110 African Women, Technology, and ICTs
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    Chapter 112 Women and Community Development in Rural Africa: Deconstructing Dominant Narratives
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    Chapter 113 Women and Development Policies in African States
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    Chapter 114 African Women’s Formal and Informal Labor: A Comparative History
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    Chapter 115 African Women in University Management and Leadership
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    Chapter 116 Women, Migration, and Development in Africa
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    Chapter 117 African Diaspora Women and African Development
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    Chapter 118 African Women and Globalization
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    Chapter 120 Introduction: Decolonizing African Women’s Studies
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    Chapter 121 Conclusion: Charting Future Paths for African Women’s Studies
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    Chapter 122 Women in African Parliaments: Progress and Prospects
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    Chapter 123 Women in Pre-colonial Africa: East Africa
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    Chapter 125 Women in Pre-colonial Africa: Southern Africa
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    Chapter 126 Women in Pre-colonial Africa: West Africa
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    Chapter 127 Women in Colonial East Africa
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    Chapter 129 Women and Colonialism: Southern Africa
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    Chapter 130 Women and Colonialism in West Africa
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    Chapter 131 Feminist Legal Theory, Human Rights, and Culture in Africa
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    Chapter 132 Women, Gender, and Politics in Africa
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    Chapter 133 Women, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development in Africa
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    Chapter 134 African Women Hip-Hop Artists Representing Transnational Identities: Y3 Fr3 Me Rebel
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    Chapter 135 Girls, Sexuality, and Gender-Based Violence in Africa
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    Chapter 137 Women, Islam, and the Law: Womanism, Shari’a, and Human Rights in Africa
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     Chapter 138 Alternative Rites of Passage and Other Responses to Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Africa
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     Chapter 139 Women, Entrepreneurship, and Economic Development in Africa
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     Chapter 141 Women, Gender, and Race in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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     Chapter 144 Gender and Migration in North Africa
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     Chapter 145 Women and Art in Africa: A Historical View
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     Chapter 146 African Indigenous Knowledge Systems and the Empowerment of African Women
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     Chapter 147 Women in Local Government in Africa: Gender, Resistance, and Empowerment
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     Chapter 148 Women, Social Media, and Culture in Africa
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     Chapter 150 Gender, Motherhood, and Parenting in Africa
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     Chapter 151 Gender, Authority, and Identity in African History: Heterarchy, Cosmic Families and Lifestages
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     Chapter 153 New Trends in Women and Politics in Africa
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     Chapter 154 Women of African Islands: Rights, Representation, and Participation
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     Chapter 157 Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting in Africa: Patriarchy and Policy
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     Chapter 158 Women and Transitional Justice in Africa and Latin America
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     Chapter 160 Women’s Empowerment and Women’s Health in Africa
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     Chapter 161 African Women's Movements and Struggles over Land
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     Chapter 162 Girl-Child, Health, and Education in Africa
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     Chapter 163 African Women’s Letters as Intellectual History and Decolonial Knowledge Production
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     Chapter 165 Gender, Migration, and African Cultures
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     Chapter 166 Postscript: Teaching Women’s Studies in Africa – Sample Syllabi
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     Chapter 167 A History of African Women from 800 CE to 1900: Bold Grandmas, Powerful Queens, Audacious Entrepreneurs
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     Chapter 168 Writing Nigerian Women’s Political History
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     Chapter 169 Writing Nigerian Women in the Economy, Education, and Literature
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     Chapter 170 Women and Colonialism Across Africa
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     Chapter 171 Women and Christianity in Africa
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     Chapter 172 North African Women and Colonialism
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     Chapter 173 African Women, Culture, and Society in Contemporary African Novels
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     Chapter 175 African Women and Peace Education: Field Experiences
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     Chapter 176 Gender Budgeting in Africa
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     Chapter 177 African Women in African Arts: Activists, Cultural Brokers, and Boundary Breakers
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     Chapter 178 DDR and the Education of Ex-Combatant Girls in Africa: A Gendered Analysis
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     Chapter 179 Conflict-Related Sexual Violence and Women’s Rights: Africa in Global Context
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     Chapter 180 Women, Terrorism, and Media: Framing of Chibok and Dapchi Schoolgirls’ Abduction Stories in Television
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     Chapter 181 LGBTI+ Organizations in Southern and East Africa: Fighting for Equal Rights