The Palgrave Handbook of African Women's Studies

Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso, Toyin Falola (Herausgeber)

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LXVIII, 2556 Seiten | Ausstattung: Hardcover

2021
Springer International Publishing
978-3-030-28098-7 (ISBN)

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This definitive handbook is the first reference of its kind bringing together knowledge, scholarship, and debates on themes and issues concerning African women everywhere. It reviews and evaluates African women’s historical, cultural, social, political, economic, religious, private, local, and global lives and activities. Contributors offer a consistent emphasis on debunking erroneous and misleading myths about African women's roles and positions, bringing their previously marginalized stories to relief, and ultimately re-writing their histories. This reference work includes, to the greatest extent possible, the voices of African women themselves as writers of their own stories. The detailed, rigorous and up-to-date analyses in the work represent a variety of theoretical, methodological, and transdisciplinary approaches. This reference work will prove vital in charting new directions for the study of African women, and will reverberate in future studies, generating new debates and engendering further interest.

Olajumoke Yacob-Haliso is Associate Professor of Political Science at Babcock University, Nigeria. She is co-editor of Women in Africa: Contexts, Rights, Hegemonies (2012), Gendering Knowledge in Africa and the African Diaspora (2017), as well as of three other forthcoming titles. She serves as Editor of the Journal of International Politics and Development and on the board and as reviewer for various reputable international journals. Her research has been supported by grants from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the International Development Research Centre, the University for Peace Africa Program, Association of African Political Science, among others. Toyin Falola is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and a Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin, USA. He is author and editor of more than 140 books. He previously served as President of the African Studies Association, and as Kluge Chair in the Countries and Cultures of the South at the Library of Congress. He is a Fellow of the Historical Society of Nigeria and a Fellow of the Nigerian Academy of Letters. Falola has received various awards and honors, including honorary doctorates from Monmouth University, USA; City University of New York, Staten Island, USA; Lead City University, Nigeria; Adekunle Ajasin University, Nigeria; and Tai Solarin University of Education, Nigeria.

African Feminisms.-Women, Gender, and Development in Africa.-Women, Gender and Race in Post-Apartheid South Africa.-Teaching Women’s Studies in Africa.-Decolonizing the Curriculum on African Women and Gender Studies.-Women and Indigenous Knowledge in Africa.-Researching Women and Gender in Africa.-Women in Executive Political Leadership in Africa.-Women in Judiciaries Across Africa

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.10.2021
Zusatzinfo	LXVIII, 2556 p. 54 illus., 37 illus. in color. In 3 volumes, not available separately.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
Schlagworte	African women • African Women and Conflict • African Women and Development • African Women and Performance • African Women and Politics • African Women's Culture • African Women's Histories • Gender and African Studies • Gender-based Violence in Africa • Research Methodologies and African Women • Women's Movements in Africa
ISBN-10	3-030-28098-5 / 3030280985
ISBN-13	978-3-030-28098-7 / 9783030280987
Zustand	Neuware