Gender Epistemologies in Africa: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities

By Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí and O. Oyewumi

This volume brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 023062345X
• ISBN13: 9780230623453
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"