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Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique: Re-thinking Gender in Africa
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Description for Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique: Re-thinking Gender in Africa
Hardback. Demonstrates shortcomings in Western feminist conceptualizations, and shows how insights from African feminist thinking may enhance understandings of gender, both in and beyond Africa. Num Pages: 328 pages, 39, 18 black and white, 21 line drawing. BIC Classification: 1HFMQ; JFSJ; JHBK5; JP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 168 x 243 x 31. Weight in Grams: 696.
Demonstrates shortcomings in Western feminist conceptualizations, and shows how insights from African feminist thinking may enhance understandings of gender, both in and beyond Africa. Winner of the 2012 gender research award KRAKA-prisen. This book is about gender politics in Mozambique over three decades from 1975 to 2005. The book is also about different ways of understanding gender and sexuality. Gender policies from Portuguese colonialism, through Frelimo socialism to later neo-liberal economic regimes share certain basic assumptions about men, women and gender relations. But to what extent do such assumptions fit the ways in which rural Mozambican ... Read more
Demonstrates shortcomings in Western feminist conceptualizations, and shows how insights from African feminist thinking may enhance understandings of gender, both in and beyond Africa. Winner of the 2012 gender research award KRAKA-prisen. This book is about gender politics in Mozambique over three decades from 1975 to 2005. The book is also about different ways of understanding gender and sexuality. Gender policies from Portuguese colonialism, through Frelimo socialism to later neo-liberal economic regimes share certain basic assumptions about men, women and gender relations. But to what extent do such assumptions fit the ways in which rural Mozambican ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
James Currey United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847010353
SKU
V9781847010353
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Reviews for Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique: Re-thinking Gender in Africa
A fascinating and important book [and] a powerful and moving contribution to the debates around how to improve African women's lives and, hence, men's as well. It would make an effective teaching tool, and, for its sometimes combative turn of phrase among its other writing strengths, is plain enjoyable to read.
AFRICAN AFFAIRS
A unique and immensely valuable ... Read more
AFRICAN AFFAIRS
A unique and immensely valuable ... Read more