Gender and Sexuality

Gradations, Contestations

Signe Arnfred

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Resumé

This chapter considers the variability of gender and sexuality in Africa while analyzing different lenses used in their study, differentiated by their contexts and goals. Most early scholarly writings on African social structure were produced by colonial anthropologists from the 1920s to the 1950s. This knowledge began to be contested in the early 1970s by Second Wave feminist scholars, who attacked the androcentricity of most anthropological texts and shifted focus to women.¹ From the 1980 s onward an increasing wave of postcolonial scholarship has questioned colonial as well as feminist assumptions regarding gender and sexuality in Africa.
OriginalsprogEngelsk
TitelHolding the World Together : African Women in Changing Perspective
RedaktørerNwando Achebe, Claire Robertson
Udgivelses stedWisconsin
ForlagUniversity of Wisconsin Press
Publikationsdato2019
Sider295-315
Kapitel14
ISBN (Trykt)0-299-32113-4
DOI
StatusUdgivet - 2019
NavnWomen in Africa and the Diaspora

Citer dette

Arnfred, S. (2019). Gender and Sexuality: Gradations, Contestations. I N. Achebe, & C. Robertson (red.), Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing Perspective (s. 295-315). Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin Press. Women in Africa and the Diaspora https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvfjcxvh.18
Arnfred, Signe. / Gender and Sexuality : Gradations, Contestations. Holding the World Together: African Women in Changing Perspective . red. / Nwando Achebe ; Claire Robertson. Wisconsin : University of Wisconsin Press, 2019. s. 295-315 (Women in Africa and the Diaspora).
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Publikation: Bidrag til bog/antologi/rapport › Bidrag til bog/antologi › Forskning › peer review

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