Names Fashioned by Gender

Thenjiwe Meyiwa, a feminist scholar, is the lead editor of this book. She is Deputy Vice-chancellor for Research, Innovation, Commercialisation and Postgraduate Studies at Unisa. She is a member of various parastatals, community and civil society organisations, such as the Rural Women’s Movement where she is the Advisory Board member; the South African National Heraldry Council where she serves as its Chairperson and a Deputy Chair of the National Heritage Council; to name but a few. She has authored several research gender studies articles, including co-publishing five books.Madoda Cekiso, the co-editor of this book, is senior professor at Tshwane University of Technology’s Department of English. He has published widely in the field of reading and writing with a significant number of his recent research projects and publications focusing on the gender analysis within this subject field.

• AcknowledgementsForewordPrefaceIntroduction: Towards developing feminist onomastics scholarshipThenjiwe Meyiwa and Madoda CekisoChapter 1: Assessing the origin and perceptions of gendered Yoruba namesTemitope O. AdekunleChapter 2: Gendered personal names in Yoruba and ChichewaAlfred Jana Matiki and Modupe M. AlimiChapter 3: Setswana naming system: a gendered outlookGoabilwe N. Ramaeba and Joyce T. MathangwaneChapter 4: Gender stereotypes embedded in the labels of female subjects in a cross section of Zimbabwean musicDuren JhambaChapter 5: Child naming and gender transformation in Gutu, ZimbabweChristopher RwodziChapter 6: Beyond the name: Maniangas tribe ways of namingLuvisa Bibiche BazolaChapter 7: Subculture socio-cultural nicknaming phenomena embedded in izindlavini of amaMpondo of the Eastern CapeThenjiwe Meyiwa and Madoda CekisoChapter 8: Re-considering the idiom ‘If God is male, then the male is God’ in light of selected Shona personal names among Reformed Church in Zimbabwe Christians in Chivi, ZimbabweExcellent ChiresheChapter 9: Gender in the personal naming practices of the Shona in Zimbabwe: a socio-onomastic studyZvinashe Mamvura and Margret ChiparaChapter 10: Xhosa female initiates’ (intonjane) perceptions of meanings and values attached to their new namesKhanyisile Rose Masha and Ilse du ToitChapter 11: ‘Get this straight, that is (not) my name’, retorts a Xhosa womanNolutho DikoChapter 12: ‘Hold the roof woman’: exploring how the naming practices amongst isiXhosa speaking people contribute to a high divorce rate in South AfricaNosisi FezaChapter 13: A feminist approach to the naming and circumstances of women in the Bible in relation to the naming of prominent Zulu womenNobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa and Thandi MwelaseChapter 14: An examination of names and gender in Ngugi’s Devil on the cross and I will marry when I wantCheela ChilalaChapter 15: Gender shift in the use of the formative -no- in Zulu given namesAdrian KoopmanChapter 16: Fluid identities: naming and recognition in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We need new names and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s AmericanahKen Junior LipengaChapter 17: Queer(ing) onomastics: names and the construction of non-normative genders and sexualities in selected short stories in Queer Africa: New and collected fictionGibson NcubeChapter 18: A feminist interrogation of Owé gendered naming practices Josephine Olufunmilayo AlexanderChapter 19: The gendered nature of naming children among the Shona in ZimbabweVimbai Matiza-MtombeniChapter 20: Names of council beer halls and shebeens in Bulawayo: A feminist analysisLiketso Dube and Sambulo NdlovuChapter 21: Anti-women nomenclature: a selection of Zimbabwean ergonyms in family businessesSambulo NdlovuChapter 22: Interrogating the female politicians selected motherhood and wifehood label in the Zimbabwean print media: The case of the Financial Gazette 2002Mandiedza ParichiChapter 23: Rethinking the framing of women in the nation through ‘self-naming’ and ‘self-definition’ of female nationalists in ZimbabwePhillip Mpofu and Charles TemboChapter 24: Naming female characters to achieve a colonial agenda (‘de-womanisation’ of African womanhood): The case of Zvarevashe’s novel KurauoneTyanai Charamba