Africa After Gender?

Catherine M. Cole is Associate Professor of Dramatic Art and Associate Director of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is author of Ghana's Concert Party Theatre (IUP, 2001).Takyiwaa Manuh is Professor of African Studies at the University of Ghana, Legon, and serves as Director of the Institute of African Studies.Stephan F. Miescher is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He is author of Making Men in Ghana (IUP, 2005).

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: When Was Gender?Stephan F. Miescher, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Catherine M. ColePart 1. Volatile Genders and New African Women1. Out of the Closet: Unveiling Sexuality Discourses in UgandaSylvia TamalePostscript compiled by Bianca A. Murillo2. Institutional Dilemmas: Representation versus Mobilization in the South African Gender CommissionGay W. Seidman3. Gendered Reproduction: Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies in African HistoryLynn M. Thomas4. Dialoging WomenNwando Achebe and Bridget TebohPart 2. Activism and Public Space5. Rioting Women and Writing Women: Gender, Class, and the Public Sphere in AfricaSusan Z. Andrade6. Let Us Be United in Purpose: Variations on Gender Relations in the Yorùbá Popular TheatreAdrienne MacIain7. Doing Gender Work in GhanaTakyiwaa Manuh8. Women as Emergent Actors: A Survey of New Women's Organizations in Nigeria since the 1990sHussaina J. AbdullahPart 3. Gender Enactments, Gendered Perceptions9. Constituting Subjects through Performative ActsPaulla A. Ebron10. Gender After Africa!Eileen Boris11. When a Man Loves a Woman: Gender and National Identity in Wole Soyinkas's Death and the King's Horseman and Mariama Bâ's Scarlet SongEileen Julien12. Representing Culture and Identity: African Women Writers and National CulturesNana Wilson-TagoePart 4. Masculinity, Misogyny, and Seniority13. Working with Gender: The Emergence of the "Male Breadwinner" in Colonial Southwestern NigeriaLisa A. Lindsay14. Becoming an Opanyin: Elders, Gender, and Masculinities in Ghana since the Nineteenth CenturyStephan F. Miescher15. "Give Her a Slap to Warm Her Up": Post-Gender Theory and Ghana's Popular CultureCatherine M. Cole16. The "Post-Gender" Question in African StudiesHelen Nabasuta MugambiThe Production of Gendered Knowledge in the Digital AgeResources for Further ReadingList of ContributorsIndex

". . . this book is an important contribution to the location of knowledge production and the study of gender in Africa. The multi- and transdisciplinary essays emphasize in various pragmatic ways how local custodians immeasurably enrich collaborative scholarly research. Other essays offer fresh approaches to gender and gender performance while situating such enactments within a transcontinental global framework with the clear aim of promoting less antagonistic North-South dialogue and groundbreaking studies of women's and gender issues in Africa.39.4 Winter 2008"—JULIANA MAKUCHI NFAH-ABBENYI, NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY"[This] is a truly remarkable and important book . . . . This text offer[s] a fresh and challenging analysis on African gender issues. . . . This book is very accessible and engaging . . . . It should have widespread appeal to Africanists from all subfields, as well as scholars of women and gender studies. Africa after Gender? makes a significant contribution to African studies and illuminates the changing discourse of gender within African contexts.June 2010"—Jacqueline-Bethel T. Mougoue, Purdue University