Gender Epistemologies in Africa

Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Anthropology, Sociology

• Author: O. Oyewumi
• ISBN: 9780230116276
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Publication: January 3, 2011
• Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
• Language: English

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.