Producing Inclusive Feminist Knowledge

Akosua Adomako Ampofo is Professor of African and Gender Studies at the University of Ghana, West Africa. Her research interests include African knowledge systems, identity politics, gender, masculinities, and popular culture. Josephine Beoku-Betts is Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Sociology, Florida Atlantic University, USA. Her research focuses on women’s political activism in post-conflict Sierra Leone and African women in academic scientific careers.

• Introduction: Positioning Feminist Voices in the Global South; Josephine Beoku-Betts, and Akosua Adomako Ampofo Part 1: Perspectives on Feminisms and Knowledge Production Chapter 1: Knowledge Hierarchies and Feminist Dilemmas: Contexts, Assemblages, Voices, and Silences; Bandana Purkayastha Chapter 2: African Feminist and Gender Scholarship: Contemporary Standpoints and Sites of Activism; Josephine Beoku-Betts Chapter 3: Dalit and Autonomous Feminisms in India; Manisha Desai Chapter 4: What Does Feminism Mean to You? Are you a Feminist? Brazilian Activists’ Definitions and Praxis of Emancipatory Intersectional Feminism; Solange Simões Chapter 5: Recent Changes in Indigenous Feminist Agenda in Latin America;Marlise Matos, and Avelin Buniacá Kambiwá Part 2: Young Feminists and Digital Approaches to Scholarship and Activism Chapter 6: Beh Tou Cheh? (What’s It to You?): Feminist Challenges in Iranian Social Media; Kristin Soraya Batmanghelichi Chapter 7: Digital Activism Ghanaian Feminist Style;Akosua K. Darkwah Chapter 8: Are We There Yet? Contemporary Struggles for Gender Justice and the Legacy of Caribbean Feminisms; Sue Anne Barratt Part 3: Feminist Knowledge Production in Applied Contexts Chapter 9: “I Can Weep but not Wail”: Contemporary Young African Masculinities;Akosua Adomako Ampofo, and Akosua Ilse-Asamoabea Ampofo Chapter 10: Working Toward Global Feminist Knowledges and Practices;Marcia Texler Segal Chapter 11: Exploring the Quagmire of Violence Against Women: Feminist Scholarship and Activism in Southern Africa; Mary Johnson Osirim