ENGLISH 240: Studies in World Literature

 

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Gender: African Cultural Practices
Books | Journal Articles | Websites

Selected Books

Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students (4 v.)
REF DT3.A249

Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African & African American Experience (5 v.)
REF DT14.A37435

The African Experience
DT20.O386

The Africans: A Reader
DT14.A3745

Psychology of Gender
BF692.2.P764

Sociology of Gender
HQ1075.W48

Understanding Contemporary Africa
DT30.5.U536

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Selected Journal Articles

Charmes, Jacques, and Saskia Wieringa. "Measuring Women's Empowerment: an assessment of the Gender-related Development Index and the Gender Empowerment Measure." Journal of Human Development 4.3 (Nov. 2003): 419.

Crumbley, Deidre Helen. "Patriarchies, Prophets, and Procreation: Sources of Gender Practices in Three African Churches." Africa 73.4 (2003): 584-605.

Davis, Paula Jean. "On the Sexuality of 'Town Women' in Kampala." Africa Today 48.3 (Fall 2001): 28.

Dube, Musa W. "Who Do You Say that I Am?." Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology 15.3 (May 2007): 346-367.

Gezon, Lisa L. "Marriage, Kin, and Compensation: A Socio-Political Ecology of Gender in Ankarana, Madagascar." Anthropological Quarterly 75.4 (Fall 2002): 675-706.

Gower, Rebecca, and Steven Salm. "Swahili women since the nineteenth century: Theoretical and empirical considerations on gender..." Africa Today 43.3 (July 1996): 251.

Heron, Barbara. "Gender and exceptionality in North-South interventions: reflecting on relations." Journal of Gender Studies 13.2 (July 2004): 117-127.

Kalu, Anthonia C. "Women and the social construction of gender in African development." Africa Today 43.3 (July 1996): 269.

Kanyoro, Musimbi. "Engendered Communal Theology: African Women's Contribution to Theology in the Twenty-First Century." Feminist Theology: The Journal of the Britain & Ireland School of Feminist Theology (May 2001): 36.

Kevane, Michael, and Leslie C. Gray. "A Woman's Field Is Made At Night: Gendered Land Rights And Norms In Burkina Faso." Feminist Economics 5.3 (Nov. 1999): 1-26.

Lewis, Joanna. "Deadlier than the male? Women, knowledge and power." Africa 68.2 (1998): 284.

Martínez, Samuel. "Searching for a Middle Path: Rights, Capabilities, and Political Culture in the Study of Female Genital Cutting." Ahfad Journal 22.1 (June 2005): 31-44.

Mushengyezi, Aaron. "Reimaging Gender and African Tradition? Ousmane Sembčne's Xala revisited." Africa Today 51.1 (Fall 2004): 47-62.

Nnoromele, Salome C. "Representing the African Woman: Subjectivity and Self in The Joys of Motherhood." Critique 43.2 (Winter 2002): 178.

Okeke, Philomena E. "Postmodern feminism and knowledge production: The African context." Africa Today 43.3 (July 1996): 223.

Schuster, Ilsa. "Women's Aggression: An African Case Study." Aggressive Behavior 9.4 (1983): 319-331.

Spronk, Rachel. "Female sexuality in Nairobi: Flawed or favoured?." Culture, Health & Sexuality 7.3 (May 2005): 267-277.

Stoeltje, Beverly J. "Introduction to Women, Language, and Law in Africa II: Gender and Relations of Power." Africa Today 49.2 (Summer 2002): vii.

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Websites

African Women on the Internet

All Africa: Women

Gender Studies in Africa: A Bibliography

Gender and Women's Studies for Africa's Transformation

History of Women and Gender in Africa as a Whole

Women of Africa: An Annotated Bibliography

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Contact: Rob Walsh, Reference & Instruction Librarian
Updated: October 2007