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Nutsukpo, Margaret Fafa. "Feminism in Africa and African Women’s Writing." African Research Review 14, no. 1 (April 28, 2020): 84–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/afrrev.v14i1.8.
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Feminism developed out of the discontents of women in the West. Although African women, over the ages, have always been sensitive to all forms of discrimination within the African society, the emergence of feminism and feminist consciousness-raising awakened in them a new awareness of their oppression through the inequalities in society, reinforced by patriarchal tradition and culture. Many African women have aligned themselves with feminism and the feminist cause and, despite all odds have made remarkable progress in their lives and society and gained respectable acceptance and recognition from even the most stubborn reluctance of male domination. This trend has been captured by African women writers in their literary works which reflect the progress African women have made in transitioning from the margin to the centre and their contributions to social change.
Key Words: Feminism, Africa, patriarchy, African women, consciousness-raising, change
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Amaefula, Rowland Chukwuemeka. "African Feminisms: Paradigms, Problems and Prospects." Feminismo/s, no. 37 (January 21, 2021): 289. http://dx.doi.org/10.14198/fem.2021.37.12.
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African feminisms comprise the differing brands of equalist theories and efforts geared towards enhancing the condition of woman. However, the meaning and application of the word ‘feminism’ poses several problems for African women writers and critics many of whom distance themselves from the movement. Their indifference stems from the anti-men/anti-religion status accorded feminism in recent times. Thus, several women writers have sought to re-theorize feminism in a manner that fittingly captures their socio-cultural beliefs, leading to multiple feminisms in African literature. This study critically analyzes the mainstream theories of feminisms in Africa with a view to unravelling the contradictions inherent in the ongoing efforts at conceptualizing African feminisms. The paper further argues for workable ways of practicing African feminisms to serve practical benefits for African man and woman, and to also function as an appropriate tool for assessing works by literary writers in Nigeria in particular and Africa in general.
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Nwanna, Clifford. "Dialectics of African Feminism A Study of the Women's Group in Awka (the Land of Blacksmiths)." Matatu 40, no. 1 (December 1, 2012): 275–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-040001019.
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There appears to be a lack of interest from researchers on African art, on feminist related issues. Their researches are devoted to other aspects of African art. This situation has created a gap in both African art and African gender studies. The present essay interrogates the socio-economic and political position of women in Africa from a feminist theoretical viewpoint. Here, the formation and the activities of the women group in Awka was used as a case study, to foreground the fact that feminism is not alien to Africa; rather it has existed in Africa since the ancient times. The women group stands out as true African patriots and protagonists of the African feminist struggle.
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Burger, Bibi, Motlatsi Khosi, and Lavinia Brydon. "A Review-Reflection on African Feminisms 2019." Film Studies 22, no. 1 (May 1, 2020): 65–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/fs.22.0005.
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In this co-authored review-reflection, we discuss the African Feminisms 2019 conference, offering a snapshot of the vital and emboldening African feminist work being conducted by researchers, cultural producers and creative practitioners at all levels of their careers, as well as a sense of the emotional labour that this work entails. We note the particular, shocking event that took place in South Africa just prior to the conference informed the papers, performances and ensuing discussions. We also note that the conference and many of its attendees advocated for a variety of approaches (and more than one feminism) when seeking to challenge power.
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Gordon, Natasha M. "“Tonguing the Body”: Placing Female Circumcision within African Feminist Discourse." Issue: A Journal of Opinion 25, no. 2 (1997): 24–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047160700502662.
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This paper focuses primarily on current debates regarding the place of female circumcision in Third World and western feminist discourse. In examining these debates, I will also draw from its fictional and autobiographical depictions as presented and discussed in contemporary African literature. While female circumcision (FC) is not practiced solely in Africa, I will be limiting my analysis to the effects of the practice within the continent. The paper is divided into three sections. Part one places the discussion on FC within current feminist discourse. Part two provides a historical and cultural background on the practice. The final section wades into the debate on FC and African Feminism.Chandra Mohanty, in her article “Under Western Eyes,” presents a rather intriguing “Third World Woman’s” argument, reflecting as well something of the debate on African feminism.
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Kruger, Marie, and Gwendolyn Mikell. "African Feminism. The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa." African Studies Review 42, no. 1 (April 1999): 197. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/525563.
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Biddlecom, Ann E., and Gwendolyn Mikell. "African Feminism: The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa." Population and Development Review 24, no. 2 (June 1998): 405. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2807991.
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Thielmann, Pia. "BOOK REVIEW:Susan Arndt. THE DYNAMICS OF AFRICAN FEMINISM: DEFINING AND CLASSIFYING AFRICAN FEMINIST LITERATURES. Trenton, NJ: Africa World P, 2002." Research in African Literatures 36, no. 2 (June 2005): 156–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/ral.2005.36.2.156.
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Dentith, Audrey M., Misty Sailors, and Mantsose Sethusha. "What Does It Mean to Be a Girl? Teachers’ Representations of Gender in Supplementary Reading Materials for South African Schools." Journal of Literacy Research 48, no. 4 (December 2016): 394–422. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1086296x16683474.
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Education reform, including methods to create greater gender equality, is an ongoing process in post-Apartheid South Africa. Using an African feminism theoretical framework and a critical content analysis approach, we examined the representation of female characters in a subset of supplementary reading titles created under an international development project. Through constant comparison of prepositions in the books, our findings indicated that the authors of these books (South African teachers) depicted females in complex, multifaceted, and, at times, contradictory roles. These panoramic roles created by the authors appeared to be situated in the very practical and lived experiences of children in South Africa. This study has implications for curriculum development in international settings.
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Doumbia, Kadidia Viviane. "Globalization and Dance in West Africa." Congress on Research in Dance Conference Proceedings 40, S1 (2008): 86–89. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s2049125500000546.
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Dance in most African countries, especially in West Africa, is the responsibility of a particular class of the society. The main issue for performers or choreographers trained in modern standards is the transfer of information to dance professionals who are illiterate, approximately 75 percent of noneducated people on the continent. The majority are women. It is an oral tradition too, so diversity, globalization, and feminism mean nothing to them. The sociopolitical situation of the entire continent is a good example of the consequences of colonization that, besides being a historical big mistake, was also a disaster because it did not respect the structure of societies. Today's globalization of the world draws the continent down because it cannot consider Africa's specific needs. To me, dance cannot be globalized because of the creativity, identity, and social-specific values that would die.
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Patton. "Introduction: New Directions in Feminism and Womanism in Africa and the African Diaspora." Black Women, Gender + Families 5, no. 2 (2011): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/blacwomegendfami.5.2.0001.
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Nkealah, Naomi N. "Conceptualizing feminism(s) in Africa: The challenges facing African women writers and critics." English Academy Review 23, no. 1 (July 2006): 133–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10131750608540431.
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Olorunfemi, Oludayo. "Towards innovative teaching pedagogies in gender research: A review of a gender research methods class." Journal of Sustainable Development Law and Policy (The) 11, no. 1 (November 10, 2020): 239–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/jsdlp.v11i1.11.
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This commentary examines the teaching of research methods in Women and Gender Studies in the Gender Studies Unit of the Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan. It interrogates how the course has increased the awareness of students in the methods of conducting research and how the research they conduct has implications on marginalized populations. The course also highlights the need for a growing body of knowledge that engages the experience of black women in Africa and the African diaspora. The course draws the attention of students to the agency of women through the reading and teaching of various research methods in Gender Studies. An ethnographic approach is adopted using participant observation in the course covering a period of one semester. Also, a critical perspective is applied in discussing the particular epistemological standpoint deployed by the course instructor. In other words, the black feminist epistemology serves as an important strategy for increasing global-minded consciousness of how a course in gender research methods engages the agency of black women using Hip Hop pedagogy.
Keywords: Gender Research Methods, Black Feminist Epistemology, Global-Minded, Black Consciousness, African Feminism.
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Adeleke, E. B. "From Sidi to Ene." Matatu 49, no. 1 (2017): 1–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04901001.
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To say that African women have come a long way is to state the obvious. In economic, spiritual, political, and educational terms, African women have made significant contributions to Africa’s development. In literature generally, but especially in drama, the phases of the African woman are easily traceable. The maxim used to be ‘the place of a woman is in the kitchen’ or ‘women are to be seen and not heard’. Accordingly, African women were depicted in early modern African plays as docile, submissive, cooperative, and obedient. However, contemporary African drama shows that African women can no longer be tagged in this way. Therefore, in this essay, exploring various shades of feminism, we trace the evolutionary phases of African women from Wole Soyinka’s Sidi in The Lion and the Jewel to Tracy Utoh-Ezeajugh’s Ene in Our Wives Have Gone Mad Again, to show that African women have developed from the docile to the rebellious and even ruthless. We shall draw our illustrations from plays across Africa.
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Bamidele, Dele, and Blessing Abuh. "The Predicament of Women in a Postmodern World." Matatu 49, no. 1 (2017): 182–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04901010.
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Feminism has no unanimous acceptance in Africa, so women who are associated with it are regarded as deviants or radicals who have chosen to kick against the norms and traditions of traditional Africa. This study explores the plight of suppression and exploitation experienced by women and also revealed the dangerous and difficult situations that often reduce women to mental wrecks. Njabulo Ndebele’s The Cry of Winnie Mandela is the focus of this essay, as the novel accounts for the entrapment and subjugation of women caused by traditional laws and customs, as well as their determined effort to survive in a patriarchal culture. Njabulo examined the lives of five South African women in post-apartheid South Africa, who had to wait indefinitely for their absent husbands. This essay attempts to create awareness of the need for societal reforms in order to improve the lot of women in patriarchal societies and encourage cooperation between women in order to stand up to the challenges of life and assert their individual worth and value, as espoused in the novel. This study concludes that the subjugation of women by patriarchal societies is to the detriment of the family and society at large. Thus, there is a need to re-evaluate and redefine gender roles in African societies in order to establish mutual understanding and relationships between the genders.
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Pindi, Gloria Nziba. "Beyond Labels: Envisioning an Alliance Between African Feminism and Queer Theory for the Empowerment of African Sexual Minorities Within and Beyond Africa." Women's Studies in Communication 43, no. 2 (April 2, 2020): 106–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/07491409.2020.1745585.
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Subekti, Mega, Aquarini Priyatna, and Yati Aksa. "PERSPEKTIF FEMINIS AFRIKA DALAM NOVEL RIWAN OU LE CHEMIN DU SABLE KARYA KEN BUGUL (THE AFRICAN FEMINIST PERSPECTIVE IN THE NOVEL RIWAN CHEMIN OU LE DU SABLE BY KEN BUGUL)." METASASTRA: Jurnal Penelitian Sastra 6, no. 2 (March 14, 2016): 91. http://dx.doi.org/10.26610/metasastra.2013.v6i2.91-102.
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Penelitian ini ditujukan untuk mendeskripsikan bagaimana perspektif feminis Afrika ditampilkan dalam karya autobiografis Ken Bugul yang berjudul Riwan ou Le Chemin du Sable (1999). Dalam karya itu, perspektif feminis ditampilkan melalui kacamata narator sebagai perempuan Senegal ketika dihadapkan pada persoalan poligami. Analisis menggunakan teori feminisme yang kontekstual dengan isu yang dihadapi perempuan di Senegal, terutama yang dipaparkan oleh Hashim dan D’Almeida serta pendekatan naratologi autobiografis. Saya berargumentasi bahwa perspektif feminisme dalam karya Bugul itu adalah konsep famillisme yang merujuk pada penyuaraan rasa solidaritas antarperempuan Senegal dan keterlibatan aktif laki-laki demi terciptanya keberlangsungan dan kesejahteraan sebuah keluarga.Abstract:The present research aims at describing how African feminist perspectives features in Ken Bugul’s autobiographical work entitling Riwan ou Le Chemin du Sable (1999). In the paper, the feminist perspective is shown through the eyes of the narrator as Senegalese women when faced with the question of polygamy. The analysis uses the theory of feminism that contextual issues faced by women in Senegal, mainly presented by Hashim and D’Almeida and by applying the approach of autobiographical approach narrathology. I argue that the feminism perspective in the Bugul’s works is a familliasm concept that refers to the voicing solidarity among Senegal’s women and the active involvement of men in order to create sustainability and a well-being family.
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Du Plessis, J. W., and D. H. Steenberg. "Uit die oogpunt van ’n vrou? Perspektief op feministiese literêre kritiek in die kader van die Airikaanse prosa." Literator 12, no. 3 (May 6, 1991): 71–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v12i3.781.
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Feminists feel that in literary criticism not enough consideration is given to feminism as an ideology in the production of texts. According to them, existing literary criticism is strongly man-centred. This is especially true of the practice of South African literary criticism. Although feminism does not have at its disposal a formulated feminist literary criticism, a great deal of research has been done in this direction abroad. This is especially the case in Europe and America. Feminist literary critics apply themselves to the representation of the woman in works by male authors and an analysis of feminine experience in the production of texts by women. This article is an exploration of the Anglo-American and French approaches in feminist literary criticism. An attempt is made to formulate the aims of a possible South African feminist literary criticism in order that not only the general norms, but also the feminist codes in the production of a text, speak towards the final interpretation of a work.
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Ratele, Kopano, Josephine Cornell, Sipho Dlamini, Rebecca Helman, Nick Malherbe, and Neziswa Titi. "Some basic questions about (a) decolonizing Africa(n)-centred psychology considered." South African Journal of Psychology 48, no. 3 (July 26, 2018): 331–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0081246318790444.
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Conceptual disagreement remains rife with regard to African psychology with some scholars mistakenly equating it to, for example, ethnotheorizing and traditional healing, while others confound African psychology with Africanization and racialization. Using writing as inquiry, this article aims to clear up some of the conceptual confusion on African psychology while engaging with the issue of a decolonizing African psychology. Accordingly, questions such as ‘What is the main dispute between Africa(n)-centred psychology and Euro-American-centric psychology in Africa?’; ‘Does Africa(n)-centred psychology not homogenize Africans?’; ‘What can be gained from imbricating decolonizing perspectives and feminist Africa(n)-centred psychology?’; and ‘What would a decolonizing Africa(n)-centred community psychology look like?’ are pertinent in the clarification of the conceptual confusion. Arising from an inventive dialogical and collaborative method, the aim of this article is not only to illuminate some basic misunderstandings on (a) decolonizing African psychology but also to generate further dialogue on how to work towards African psychology as situated decolonizing practice and knowledge.
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Karyono, Karyono. "PENGARUH KOLONIALISME TERHADAP PERUBAHAN PSIKOLOGIS WANITA PRIBUMI DALAM CERPEN “PEREMPUAN DALAM PERANG” KARYA CHINUA ACHEBE." METASASTRA: Jurnal Penelitian Sastra 5, no. 1 (March 14, 2016): 35. http://dx.doi.org/10.26610/metasastra.2012.v5i1.35-43.
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Cerpen “Perempuan dalam Perang” merupakan salah satu cerpen yang terdapat dalam Kumpulan Cerpen Afrika: Kenapa Tidak Kau Pahat Binatang Lain. Kumpulan cerpen terbit tahun 2005 dan diterjemahkan oleh Sapardi Djoko Damono. Cerpen ini menceritakan masa keterpurukan Negara Afrika yang menjadi sorotan para kolonialis untuk menjajahnya. Masyarakat Afrika diperlakukan sebagai golongan inferior di tanah mereka oleh pihak Barat, akibat konflik yang terjadi berkenaan dengan sosiologis dan psikologis penderitaan wanita pribumi dalam kolonialisme. Salah satu penderitaan psikologis yang dialami oleh masyarakat pribumi, yaitu perubahan ideologi yang menuju kemerosotan moral. Banyak dari mereka yang berpindah tempat, berpindah pola pikir, dan berubah dalam tindakan. Metode yang digunakan adalah close reading, dengan menggunakan pendekatan teori poskolonialisme yang akan dihubungkan dengan prespektif feminisme karena dalam cerita ini terkandung isu gender yang cukup kental. Yang terjadi dalam cerpen “Perempuan dalam Perang” adalah perubahan pola pikir seorang wanita yang berjuang melawan penjajah, berubah menjadi seorang yang berjuang untuk dirinya. Wanita itu berusaha memertahankan hidupnya dengan menjual harga dirinya. Isu gender juga melekat dalam cerpen ini. Dilihat dari sudut pandang feminisme, ada hal-hal yang dibenarkan dalam pola pikir feminis dan ada penyimpangan-penyimpangan yang mengakibatkan perspektif feminis tidak dihargai.Abstract:The short story of “Perempuan dalam Perang” is one of the short stories in Kumpulan Cerpen Afrika (A collection of African short stories) entitled Kenapa Tidak Kau Pahat Binatang Lain. The collection of the short stories published in 2005 and translated by Sapardi Djoko Damono. The story told us about the downturn of African countries that became the attraction of imperialism to colonize them. African society is treated as an inferior class of their own land by the West, due to the conflict regarding the sociological and psychological suffering of native women in colonialism. One of the psychological suffering experienced by the native is the change in ideology leading to moral degradation. Many of them change their mindset and action.The applied method is close reading, using a theoretical approach post-colonialism linked to the perspective of feminism because this story contained the strong gender issue. What happened in the story was a change in a woman mindset who fought against the colonialist, turned into a struggle for herself. She was trying to survive by selling her own esteem. The gender issues are also inherent in this short story. From feminism point of view, there are things justified in feminist mindset and there are deviations resulting in a feminist perspective that is not appreciated.
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Campbell, Horace G. "African International Relations, Genocidal Histories and the Emancipatory Project. Part 2." Vestnik RUDN. International Relations 20, no. 2 (December 15, 2020): 367–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-0660-2020-20-2-367-381.
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Silences in the discipline of International Relations on genocide amount to a form of genocide denial, which is one of the foundations of future genocide. The paper posits that in the era of militarized global apartheid, progressive scholars are challenged to critique and expose the past and current crimes against humanity that are occurring in Africa. Drawing from the consolidation of an alternative analysis in the context of the Bandung Project, the paper analyzed the contributions of the ideas that emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggles and the struggles for reparative justice. Struggles from the Global South had culminated in the World Conference against Racism (WCAR) process, elevating the anti-racist battles as a core challenge of Africas International Relations. This rejuvenation and energies coming out of the protracted struggle for bread, peace and justice took the form of the transition to the African Union leaving behind the concept of the noninterference in the internal affairs of states. The paper analyzed the ways in which afro-pessimism was being reinforced by the constructivist path in African International Relations. The contributions of radical African feminists are presented as one new direction where there is the coalescence of the progressive anti-imperialist intellectual traditions with radical feminisms. These two traditions open possibilities for an emancipatory project. This project has taken on extra importance in the period of the fragility of global capital when the precariousness of capitalism threatens new and endless wars and destabilization in Africa. Modern humanitarianism forms one component of the weaponization of everything and it is within this ensemble of ideas that scholars need to deconstruct the discussion of failed states in Africa.
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Ndonye, Michael M. "Mass-Mediated Feminist Scholarship failure in Africa: Normalised Body-Objectification as Artificial Intelligence (AI)." Editon Consortium Journal of Media and Communication Studies 1, no. 1 (April 30, 2019): 1–8. http://dx.doi.org/10.51317/ecjmcs.v1i1.47.
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Mass media culture and its role in defining, inculcating and shaping sexual orientation of a society cannot be gainsaid. In this paper, the mass-mediated western feminist scholarship failure in Africa is interrogated in the wake of Sex Robots such as ‘Samantha.’ The argument is that these sex robots function to normalise woman body objectification. The study aims to anchor on Pan African project perspective and the ontological formulation of the African woman as human-being deserving her voice concerning her experiences with patriarchal social structures. The mass media, in its romanticisation of western feminist scholarship denies African woman this voice. There are four fundamental questions central to this paper: 1) what are the epistemological foundations of western feminist scholarship in patriarchal Africa? 2) What is the political economy of western feminist scholarship in sex robotics in Africa? 3) Can sex robots fill the western-feminist-scholarship-born inorganic sexist relation in Africa? And 4) what alternative framework is fit for African woman transformation and emancipation project? The study analyses the feminist scholarship from the past, present and future to give possible solutions to challenges and failures of the strategy toward woman emancipation and transformative agenda in Africa and the developing world.
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Iloh, Ngozi Obiajulum. "Une Étude critique de Madame la présidente de Fatou Fanny-Cissé." Neohelicon 48, no. 1 (April 6, 2021): 403–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11059-020-00573-8.
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AbstractThis article discusses the Ivorian writer, Fatou Fanny-Cissé’s novel, Madame la présidente, published in 2015. The novel offers a fundamental critique of African democracy and the contemporary politics in Africa. The Republic of Louma is an imaginary country that show-cases electoral crises in an imaginary contemporary continent. The plot about a female dictator has a strong feminist inclination. The feminisation of presidential elections is a caricature of the dictatorial tendencies of African leaders. The themes discussed are true to contemporary political events in Africa as well as other parts of the world. The presentation reveals a lucid picture of feminine dictatorial politics.
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COSTA, Michelly Aragão Guimarães. "O feminismo é revolução no mundo: outras performances para transitar corpos não hegemônicos “El feminismo es para todo el mundo” de bell hooks Por Michelly Aragão Guimarães Costa." INTERRITÓRIOS 4, no. 6 (June 4, 2018): 187. http://dx.doi.org/10.33052/inter.v4i6.236748.
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El feminismo es para todo el mundo, é uma das obras mais importantes da escritora, teórica ativista, acadêmica e crítica cultural afronorteamericana bell hooks. Inspirada em sua própria história de superação e influenciada pela teoria crítica como prática libertadora de Paulo Freire, a autora nos provoca a refletir sobre o sujeito social do feminismo e propõe um feminismo visionário e radical, que deve ser analisado a partir das experiências pessoais e situada desde nossos lugares de sexo, raça e classe para compreender as diferentes formas de violência dentro do patriarcado capitalista supremacista branco. Como feminista negra interseccional, a escritora reivindica constantemente a teoria dentro do ativismo, por uma prática feminista antirracista, antissexista, anticlassista e anti-homofóbica, que lute contra todas as formas de violência e dominação, convidando a todas as pessoas a intervir na realidade social. Para a autora, o feminismo é para mulheres e homens, apontando a urgência de transitar alternativas outras, de novos modelos de masculinidades não hegemônicas, de família e de criança feminista, de beleza e sexualidades feministas, de educação feminista para a transformação da vida e das nossas relações sociais, políticas, afetivas e espirituais. Feminismo. Revolução. bell hooks. Feminismo is for everybody bell hooksFeminism is revolution in the world: other performances to transit non-hegemonic bodiesAbstractEl feminismo es para todo el mundo, is one of the writer's most important works, activist theorist, academic and cultural critic African American, bell hooks. Inspired by her own overcoming history and influenced by critical theory as a liberating practice of Paulo Freire, the author provokes us to reflect on the social subject of feminism and proposes a visionary and radical feminism that must be analyzed from personal experiences and situated from our places of sex, race, and class to understand the different forms of violence within the white supremacist capitalist patriarchy. As an intersectional black feminist, the writer constantly advocates the theory within activism, for a feminist practice anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-classist and anti-homophobic practice that fights against all forms of violence and domination, inviting all people to intervene in social reality. For the author, feminism is for women and men, pointing to the urgency of moving other alternatives, new models of non-hegemonic masculinities, family and child feminist beauty and feminist sexualities, feminist education for life transformation and of our social, political, affective and spiritual relationships. Feminism. Revolution. bell hooks
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Haastrup, Toni. "Gendering South Africa's Foreign Policy: Toward a Feminist Approach?" Foreign Policy Analysis 16, no. 2 (March 6, 2020): 199–216. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fpa/orz030.
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Abstract South Africa's leadership has sought ethical foreign policy since the advent of democracy. This foreign policy outlook focuses on the African continent and includes certain articulations of pro-gender justice norms. In this article, I reflect on the extent to which South Africa's foreign policy embraces these norms as part of its foreign apparatus and practices. It takes at its starting point the nascent literature on feminist foreign policy applied to South Africa, which shares similarities to countries in the Global North that claim a feminist orientation to foreign policy. Moreover, it takes account of gender dynamics at the domestic level and how they are manifested in foreign policy discourses and practices, particularly in the understanding and implementation of the Women, Peace, and Security agenda. Utilizing qualitative content analysis, this article provides context and meaning for how gender concerns have evolved in South Africa's foreign policy, including the role of certain norm entrepreneurs in shaping the gender narrative. The article concludes that the domestic context is important to shaping and limiting how a country can enact feminist foreign policy. Importantly, the South African case provides a Global South dimension to the nascent scholarship.
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Mann, Joseph Bryce. "‘No effort, no entry’: Fashioning Ubuntu and becoming queer in Cape Town." Sexualities 21, no. 7 (November 13, 2017): 1125–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460717724155.
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This article presents data from five years of research on fashion, gay identity, and post-apartheid democracy in Cape Town, South Africa. Through interviews, observations, and survey data on the experiences of young “black” and “coloured” gay men, it shows how admission standards at nightlife venues in the city’s “Gay Village,” De Waterkant, police patrons’ clothing and institutionalize essential models of raced and classed gay belonging that complicate the multicultural “Ubuntu” promised by the state. The article troubles the multiculturalism coincident with tourism media, which frames De Waterkant as “Africa’s Gay Capital,” and instead argues that participants’ understanding and use of clothing in city and black township nightlife present aesthetic anomalies through which the becoming of Ubuntu can be productively rethought. Contributing to geographies of sexuality work, the article shows how classed-race exclusions in De Waterkant help fashion Ubuntu at the junction of multiple scales of spatiality, and by applying Women of Color Feminism and Queer of Color Critique to African Studies, how everyday spaces, and the clothed bodies therein, can reveal the mutually constitutive becoming of Ubuntu and queerness.
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Zerai, Assata, Joanna Perez, and Chenyi Wang. "A Proposal for Expanding Endarkened Transnational Feminist Praxis." Qualitative Inquiry 23, no. 2 (August 20, 2016): 107–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800416660577.
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Western researchers often do not incorporate the voices of African women in their research endeavors; and a serious engagement in women’s health activism in Zimbabwe cannot happen without this preliminary step. Endarkened feminist epistemologies have theorized a social science that refuses to sidestep African women’s perspectives. As a corrective to conceptual quarantining of Black (African and African diasporic) feminist thought, the exciting body of literature in the field broadly characterized as Africana feminism has helped to legitimate the languages, discourses, challenges, unique perspectives, divergent experiences, and intersecting oppressions and privileges of African women’s and girls’ lives. In this article, we develop an emerging Africana feminist methodology to propose building a scholarship and activism database as well as guide an exploratory discussion of health activism in Zimbabwe.
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Datiri, Blessing Dachollom. "Online Activism Against Gender-Based Violence: How African Feminism is Using Twitter for Progress." Debats. Revista de cultura, poder i societat 5 (January 4, 2021): 271–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.28939/iam.debats-en.2020-16.
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The chief goal of African feminism has been to better African women’s dire conditions in a mainly patriarchal society. Over the last five years however, the tide appears to be turning as feminists across the continent make greater use of online platforms to work change. This paper discusses the ways in which African women are using Twitter to protest against the abusive conditions women face including early and forced marriages, domestic abuse, abduction, sexual assault, slavery and other forms of genderbased violence. Through the lens of three hashtag campaigns (#BringBackOurGirls, #JusticeforNoura and #JusticeForOchanya), the paper examines the impact of twittering on African gender activism. Through Critical Discussion Analysis of selected tweets three key narratives emerged, constructed by the online activists who took part in the campaigns: Solidarity in Feminist Sisterhood; Gender Equality; and A Call for Justice. The tweets are analysed under these themes showing that the meanings constructed by the activists helped advance the African feminist cause. The paper concludes with the lessons to be drawn from the campaigns, which show social media’s scope for advancing the goals of African feminism.
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Osirim, Mary Johnson. "SWS Distinguished Feminist Lecture: Feminist Politcal Economy in a Globalized World: African Women Migrants in South Africa and the United States." Gender & Society 32, no. 6 (October 31, 2018): 765–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891243218804188.
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Based on research conducted over the past two decades, this lecture examines how the feminist political economy perspective can aid us in understanding the experiences of two populations of African women: Zimbabwean women cross-border traders in South Africa and African immigrant women in the northeastern United States. Feminist political economy compels us to explore the impact of the current phase of globalization as well as the roles of intersectionality and agency in the lives of African women. This research stems from fieldwork conducted in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, as well as in metropolitan Boston and Philadelphia. Despite the many challenges that African migrant women face in these different venues, they continue to demonstrate much creativity and resilience and, in the process, they contribute to community development.
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Mbabuike, Michael C., and Donald R. Wehrs. "African Feminists and Feminisms." African Studies Review 45, no. 3 (December 2002): 63. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/1515100.
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Glas, Saskia, and Amy Alexander. "Explaining Support for Muslim Feminism in the Arab Middle East and North Africa." Gender & Society 34, no. 3 (May 19, 2020): 437–66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0891243220915494.
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Public debates depict Arabs as opposed to gender equality because of Islam. However, there may be substantial numbers of Arab Muslims who do support feminist issues and who do so while being highly attached to Islam. This study explains why certain Arabs support feminism while remaining strongly religious (“Muslim feminists”). We propose that some Arab citizens are more likely to subvert patriarchal norms, especially in societies that construct Islam and feminism as more compatible. Empirically, we apply three-level multinomial analyses to 51 Arab Barometer and World Values Surveys, which include 57,000 Arab Muslims. Our results show that one in four Arab Muslims supports Muslim feminism—far more than those who support a more secularist version of feminism. Employed women, single people, people who distrust institutions, and more highly educated people support Muslim feminism more than do others—especially in societies that construct feminism and Islam as less contradictory, such as those with strong feminist movements. The presumption that Islam and feminism are necessarily opposed may hinder feminism. A more effective way to boost gender equality in the Arab region may be to embolden emancipatory religious interpretations.
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Taiwo, Olufemi. "Appropriating Africa: An Essay on New Africanist Schools." Issue: A Journal of Opinion 23, no. 1 (1995): 39–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047160700009045.
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In recent times Africa has been a favourite quarry of American social scientists and humanities scholars. It has served Africanist scholars, mostly white, as a springboard for their eminently successful careers, as objects of study, and as cartographic points to which some of them could lay claim as theirs, trespass on which is often the equivalent of a capital offence in African Studies. Many of us have often been lectured, harangued, sometimes nearly insulted, because we dared to suggest that a subject on which a particular Africanist is “expert,” or one that happens to excite her or him has little relevance to the scholarly concerns of African scholars or the lives of Africans! There are variations on this theme: it wasn't so long ago that feminists of different persuasions kept looking to Africa for primal, originary matriarchies.
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Caraivan, Luiza. "Constructing Womanhood in Zimbabwean Literature: Noviolet Bulawayo and Petina Gappah." Gender Studies 18, no. 1 (December 1, 2019): 58–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/genst-2020-0005.
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Abstract Literature written in English in the former British colonies of Southern Africa has attracted the public’s attention after the publication of Michael Chapman’s “Southern African Literaturesˮ (1996). The paper analyses the writings of two Zimbabwean authors - NoViolet Bulawayo (Elizabeth Zandile Tshele) and Petina Gappah – taking into account African feminist discourses.
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Awuzie, Solomon. "GOOD WIVES AND BAD WIVES: IBEZUTE’S VICTIMS OF BETRAYAL, THE TEMPORAL GODS AND DANCE OF HORROR." Imbizo 6, no. 2 (June 21, 2017): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2078-9785/2799.
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This article is a ‘masculinist’ reading of Chukwuma Ibezute’s Victims of Betrayal, The Temporal Gods and Dance of Horror.The article contends that African literature has always focused on Africa’s socio-political situation until a group of “activists in feminist movement†started agitating for a proper representation of women in literature. Unlike in Europe and America where the ideology is not challenged, in Africa it was challenged by a group of scholars who called themselves ‘masculinists’. Using Ibezute’s three novels, the ‘masculinist’ ideology is demonstrated. While in Ibezute’s Victims of Betrayal it is revealed that men are play-things in the hands of their bad wives, in The Temporal Gods it is depicted that bad wives can go extra miles to impose their decisions on their husbands. In Dance of Horror, it is shown that the kind of woman that is married into a family determines the fate of that family. The article concludes that the implications of these situations as represented in the novels are that while the roles of some husbands in African homes are becoming more and more passive, the fate of some African homes and families are in the hands of wives.
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Vähäkangas, Auli. "African Feminist Contributions to Missiological Anthropology." Mission Studies 28, no. 2 (2011): 170–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/157338311x605665.
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Abstract Missiology has mainly been the interest of white expatriate missionaries. In the context of the growing focus of Christianity on the global South, this article looks into African feminist theology. Using theologians of the “Circle of the Concerned Women Theologians in Africa,” this article analyses some central contributions made by members of this Circle in the field of missiology. The most interesting feminist contribution to missiological anthropology is the search for a new cultural identity by modern African Christians. This search for identity includes a critical and positive view of African traditional practices. This contextualization process includes both the continuation and reconstruction of some of the practices which the Circle theologians have identified as not being oppressive. The African missiologists need in-depth anthropological and theological analyses to understand the variety of cultures in their societies and to contextualize the Gospel.
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Decker, Alicia C. "What Does a Feminist Curiosity Bring to African Military History?" Journal of African Military History 1, no. 1-2 (September 6, 2017): 93–111. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24680966-00101006.
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This essay uses feminist scholarship to engender African military history. It begins by examining the ways in which gender has—or has not—been integrated into African military history over the last ten years. Next, it analyzes some of the most influential feminist scholarship on gender and militarism in Africa today. Although most of this literature has not been produced by historians, it has much to teach us about how gender can be critically interrogated within our own work. The penultimate section considers the importance of cultivating a feminist curiosity and discusses what this type of critical thinking can bring to African military history. And finally, the conclusion reflects upon the future of the field, describing what needs to be done and how we might get there.
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Makaudze, Godwin. "African Leadership in Children's Literature: Illustrations from the Shona Ngano (Folktale) Genre." International Research in Children's Literature 13, no. 2 (December 2020): 321–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/ircl.2020.0361.
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Feminist scholarship sees African society as traditionally patriarchal, while the colonists saw traditional African leadership as lacking in values such as democracy, tolerance, and accountability, until these were imposed by Europeans. Using Afrocentricity as a theoretical basis, this article examines African leadership as portrayed in the Shona ngano [folktale] genre and concludes that, in fact, leadership was neither age- nor gender-specific and was democratic, tolerant, and accountable. It recommends further research into African oral traditions as a way of arriving at more positive images of traditional Africa and her diverse heritage.
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Okech, Awino. "Screening Winnie and African Feminist Herstories." Radical Teacher 119 (April 17, 2021): 71–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/rt.2021.855.
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This teaching note offers reflections on the screening of Winnie an autobiographical documentary about the life of Winnie Mandela, South African liberation struggle actor. I explore the pedagogical decisions I made in screening this film which deals with the history of apartheid South Africa to a mixed audience at a university in London.
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Campbell, Horace G. "African International Relations, Genocidal Histories and the Emancipatory Project. Part 1." Vestnik RUDN. International Relations 20, no. 1 (December 15, 2020): 115–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.22363/2313-0660-2020-20-1-115-130.
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Silences in the discipline of International Relations on genocide amount to a form of genocide denial, which is one of the foundations of future genocide. The paper posits that in the era of militarized global apartheid, progressive scholars are challenged to critique and expose the past and current crimes against humanity that are occurring in Africa. Drawing from the consolidation of an alternative analysis in the context of the Bandung Project, the paper analyzed the contributions of the ideas that emerged out of the anti-apartheid struggles and the struggles for reparative justice. Struggles from the Global South had culminated in the World Conference against Racism (WCAR) process, elevating the anti-racist battles as a core challenge of Africa’s International Relations. This rejuvenation and energies coming out of the protracted struggle for bread, peace and justice took the form of the transition to the African Union leaving behind the concept of the noninterference in the internal affairs of states. The paper analyzed the ways in which afro-pessimism was being reinforced by the constructivist path in African International Relations. The contributions of radical African feminists are presented as one new direction where there is the coalescence of the progressive anti-imperialist intellectual traditions with radical feminisms. These two traditions open possibilities for an emancipatory project. This project has taken on extra importance in the period of the fragility of global capital when the precariousness of capitalism threatens new and endless wars and destabilization in Africa. Modern humanitarianism forms one component of the weaponization of everything and it is within this ensemble of ideas that scholars need to deconstruct the discussion of ‘failed states’ in Africa.
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James, Stanlie. "Remarks for a Roundtable on Transnational Feminism." Meridians 18, no. 2 (October 1, 2019): 471–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/15366936-7775630.
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Abstract In 1977 a collective of Black Lesbian Feminists published the Combahee River Collective Statement, a manifesto that defined and described the interlocking oppressions that they and other women of color were experiencing and the deleterious impact of these oppressions upon their lives. They committed themselves to a lifelong collective process and nonhierarchical distribution of power as they struggle(d) to envision and create a just society. Twenty-nine years after the appearance of the Combahee River Collective Statement, over one hundred African Feminists met in Accra, Ghana to formulate their own manifesto and ultimately adopt the Charter of Feminist Principles for African Feminists, which was first published in 2007 simultaneously in English and French. This paper reviews both statements and acknowledges their critical contributions to the evolution of Transnational Feminisms.
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Naidoo, Salachi. "Re-thinking the feminist agenda in selected female authored Zimbabwean literature." DANDE Journal of Social Sciences and Communication 2, no. 2 (2018): 33–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.15641/dande.v2i2.51.
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This article investigates the feminist agenda in female authored Zimbabwean literature, with emphasis on the novel. It focuses largely on Virginia Phiri's Destiny and Highway Queen as well as Violet Masilo's The African Tea Cosy. The paper argues that Zimbabwean female authorship is flavoured with precepts of African feminism(s) in its representations of African women's agency in gender adversities. Framed within African feminism, women's agency derives from and gives meaning to an inescapable African-ness that needs to be accepted in the fight for emancipation. In light of this, the study analyses Zimbabwean women writers’ literary contributions to discourses on gender based violence and it explores how female characters have embraced the concept of agency to recreate their identities and to introduce a new gender ethos in the context of lives that are often shaped by severe restrictions and oppression. Although largely women focused, the African feminist text is concerned about the survival of both men and women.
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Decker, Corrie. "A Feminist Methodology of Age-Grading and History in Africa." American Historical Review 125, no. 2 (April 1, 2020): 418–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhaa170.
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Abstract Age is an essential category of analysis for African history. For over a century, social scientists have emphasized the central role of age-grading in African cultures. Whereas most people in precolonial African societies assessed age in relative terms (juniors vs. seniors), European colonialism expanded the legal importance of chronological age. Gender mattered to both definitions of age. Faced with two incommensurable systems for understanding life stages—one based on relational (male) seniority and the other on chronological age—African women growing up during the colonial period found new ways to assert a sense of belonging among generations of women. I argue in favor of a feminist methodology that recognizes the broader trend among a generation of young women in Africa who employed conflicts over age to assert their maturity, and in doing so located themselves in their own histories. Identifying female age sets and generations thus offers new perspectives on how African girls and women make and remake history.
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Eke, Gloria Ori, and Anthony Njoku. "African women in search of global identity: An exploration of feminism and Afropolitanism in Chimamanda Adichie’s works." Journal of Gender and Power 13, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 151–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/jgp-2020-0009.
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AbstractMany variants of feminism have been branded over time and that has given feminism a multiple identity. One of the new revelations of feminism in recent times is “Afropolitan Feminism”, a branch of African feminism conceived in this research to deal with the story of African women in the homeland and the Diaspora trying to assume the status of world citizens (Metropolites) to de-emphasize their origins. What is the nature of Afropolitan Feminism? What is the link between Feminism and Afropolitanism? To what extent do Adichie’s characters show the attributes of Afropolitans? This paper illuminates the concepts of feminism and Afropolitanism and the latter’s traits in Adichie’s characters in Americanah and The Thing Around Your Neck. It deals with Diaspora issues and the way African women in literary fictions try to stem the effects of global maladies like African patriarchy, Western racism and sexism. The paper further discusses social awareness and feminist tendencies displayed by the characters. It ends by noting that feminism which assumes the dimension of Afropolitanism in Adichie’s works is a becoming trend rather than a fixed norm.
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Bravo-Villasante, María Ávila. "Crónica de un matricidio anunciado = Cronicle of an announced matricide." FEMERIS: Revista Multidisciplinar de Estudios de Género 2, no. 2 (July 31, 2017): 184. http://dx.doi.org/10.20318/femeris.2017.3765.
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Resumen. El propósito de este artículo es mostrar en qué medida, las complejas relaciones entre la tercera ola y el feminismo precedente provienen de aceptar una versión monolítica y creada ex profeso de la segunda ola. Nuestro recorrido parte de un análisis del término postfeminismo, delimitando su polisemia en dos versiones, la popular y la filosófica. Tras este proceso de desambiguación, analizaremos las narrativas fundacionales de la tercera ola con el objetivo de poner en evidencia algunas de sus características fundamentales y analizar en qué medida, es deudora de una versión distorsionada de la segunda ola. Este análisis nos llevará a analizar la relectura realizada por Naomi Wolf y las dificultades que plantea su nueva versión del feminismo – lo que dio en llamar “feminismo del poder”. Intentaremos mostrar cómo la aceptación de esta imagen creada ad hoc de la segunda ola conlleva consecuencias no deseadas para la tercera ola, ¿qué pasa con los feminismos negros y mestizos? ¿Su exclusión no lleva a incurrir en el mismo error al que se acusa a la segunda ola? Para finalizar, intentaremos dar cuenta de las meta-polémicas que surgen dentro del feminismo de la tercera ola. Para ello, tomaremos como hilo conductor el movimiento hip-hop, un movimiento suburbial de raíces africanas y afroamericanas vinculado al surgimiento de la tercera ola.Palabras clave: segunda ola, post-feminismo, tercera ola.Abstract. The purpose of this article is to show how the complex relationships between the third wave and the preceding feminism come from accepting a monolithic version created on the second wave. We begin by analyzing the term postfeminism, delimiting the term polysemy in its popular sense and its philosophical sense. After this process of disambiguation, we will analyze the foundational narratives of the third wave with the objective of highlighting some of its fundamental characteristics and analyzing to what extent it is debtor of a distorted version of the second wave. This analysis will lead us to analyze the rereading of Naomi Wolf and the difficulties of her new version of feminism - what she called “feminism of power”. We will try to show how the acceptance of this created ad hoc image of the second wave carries unintended consequences for the third wave, what about black and mestizo feminisms? Does not their exclusion lead to incurring the same error as that accused of the second wave? To conclude, we will attempt to account for the meta-polemics that arise within the feminism of the third wave. To do this, we will take as a common thread the hip-hop movement, a suburbia movement of African and African American roots linked to the emergence of the third wave.Keywords: second wave, post-feminism, third wave.
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Thielmann, Pia. "The Dynamics of African Feminism: Defining and Classifying African Feminist Literatures (review)." Research in African Literatures 36, no. 2 (2005): 156–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/ral.2005.0135.
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Macleod, Catriona, Malvern Chiweshe, and Jabulile Mavuso. "A critical review of sanctioned knowledge production concerning abortion in Africa: Implications for feminist health psychology." Journal of Health Psychology 23, no. 8 (April 22, 2016): 1096–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105316644294.
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Taking a feminist health psychology approach, we conducted a systematic review of published research on abortion featured in PsycINFO over a 7-year period. We analysed the 39 articles included in the review in terms of countries in which the research was conducted, types of research, issues covered, the way the research was framed and main findings. Despite 97 per cent of abortions performed in Africa being classifiable as unsafe, there has been no engagement in knowledge production about abortion in Africa from psychologists, outside of South Africa. Given this, we outline the implications of the current knowledge base for feminism, psychology and feminist health psychology in Africa.
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Makombe, Rodwell. "Images of woman and the search for happiness in Cynthia Jele's Happiness is a four letter word." Tydskrif vir Letterkunde 55, no. 1 (January 26, 2018): 110–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.17159/2309-9070/tvl.v.55i1.1552.
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Over the years, African ‘feminist’ scholars have expressed reservations about embracing feminism as an analytical framework for theorizing issues that affect African women. This is particularly because in many African societies, feminism has been perceived as a negative influence that seeks to tear the cultural fabric and value systems of African communities. Some scholars such as Clenora Hudson-Weems, Chikenje Ogunyemi, Tiamoyo Karenga and Chimbuko Tembo contend that feminism as developed by Western scholars is incapable of addressing context-specific concerns of African women. As a result, they developed womanism as an alternative framework for analysing the realities of women in African cultures. Womanism is premised on the view that African women need an Afrocentric theory that can adequately deal with their specific struggles. Drawing from ideas that have been developed by womanist scholars, this article critically interrogates the portrayal of women in Cynthia Jele’s Happiness is a four-letter word (2010), with particular focus on the choices that they make in love relationships, marriage and motherhood. My argument is that Jele’s text affirms the womanist view that African women exist within a specific cultural context that shapes their needs, aspirations and choices in a different way.
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Aihiokhai, SimonMary, Lorina Buhr, David Moore, and William Jethro Mpofu. "Book Reviews." Theoria 68, no. 167 (June 1, 2021): 111–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/th.2021.6816705.
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Teresia Mbari Hinga, African, Christian, Feminist: The Enduring Search for What Matters. Maryknoll, NY: Orbis Books, 2017, 244pp.Michael Marder, Political Categories: Thinking Beyond Concepts. New York: Columbia University Press, 2019, 255pp.António Tomás, Amílcar Cabral: The Life of a Reluctant Nationalist. London: Hurst, 2021, 272 pp.Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Epistemic Freedom in Africa: Deprovincialization and Decolonization. London: Routledge, 2018, 282pp.
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Zalaquett Aquea, Cherie. "FeminismoS en el horizonte del pensamiento latinoamericano contemporáneo." Hermenéutica Intercultural, no. 24 (August 29, 2016): 29. http://dx.doi.org/10.29344/07196504.24.536.
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ResumenNuevas exponentes de la teoría crítica feminista latinoamericana han desarrollado propuestas epistemológicas que desmantelan una serie de lugares comunes y mitos muy arraigados sobre el feminismo y los sujetos subalternos en nuestro continente, derivados de la inveterada costumbre de aplicar en nuestro suelo teorías elaboradas en el Primer Mundo. Estas pensadoras se sacudieron la colonización discursiva y la dependencia ideológica de los discursos académicos anglo-norteamericanos y exploraron la propia experiencia de las mujeres latinas, de color, afrodescendientes e indígenas. Sus elaboraciones teóricas, sobre todo nos muestran que la opresión es multidimensional, por lo tanto, la categoría de género por sí sola resulta insuficiente para abarcarla y es preciso intersectarla con variables como la clase y la raza para dar cuenta de la realidad “nuestramericana”.Palabras clave: Feminismo - género - pensamiento latinoamericano - epistemologías feministasAbstractNew exponents of the Latin American feminist critical theory have developedepistemological proposals that dismantle a series of commonplaces and myths very rooted on the feminism and the subaltern subjectsin our continent, derivatives of the deeply rooted custom to apply inour ground theories elaborated in the First World. These thinkers shookto the discursive colonization and the ideological dependency of theAnglo-American academic speeches and explored the own experience ofthe Latin women, of color, African descent and natives. Their theoreticalelaborations, mainly show to us that the oppression is multidimensional,therefore, the gender category alone is insufficient to include it and isprecise intersect it with variables as the class and the race to give accountof our American reality.Keywords: Feminism, gender, Latin American thought, feminist epistemologiesResumoNovos expoentes da teoria crítica feminista da América Latina, tem desenvolvidopropostas epistemológicas que abate uma série de locais comunse mitos arraigados sobre o feminismo e indivíduos subalternos no nossocontinente, derivada da inveterada costume de aplicar teorias elaboradasno Primeiro Mundo, em nosso solo. Essas pensadoras sacudiram a colonizaçãodiscursiva e a dependência ideológica dos discursos acadêmicosAnglo-Americanos e exploraram a própria experiência das mulhereslatinas, de cor, ascendência Afro e indígenas. Suas teorias mostram quea opressão é multidimensional, portanto, a categoria de gênero por si sóé insuficiente para ser abordada e precisa ser intersectada com variáveiscomo a classe e a raça para dar conta da realidade “nossamericana”.Palavras-chave:Feminismo - gênero - pensamento latino americano -epistemologias feministas
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Akinbobola, Yemisi. "Defining African Feminism(s) While #BeingFemaleinNigeria." African Diaspora 12, no. 1-2 (June 28, 2020): 64–88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18725465-bja10009.
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Abstract In 2015, a reading group in Abuja, Nigeria, started the hashtag #BeingFemaleinNigeria, which received widespread attention. Within the confines of 140 characters, Nigerian women and men shared stories of gender inequality, sexism and misogyny in the country. Using feminist critical discourse analysis, this article unpacks the tweets under the #BeingFemaleinNigeria hashtag, and teases out what they tell us about gender inequality in Nigeria, and the ambitions for emancipation. This article takes the stance that African feminism(s) exist, that empirical study of lived experiences of African women should define it, and not perspectives that reject and argue that feminism comes from the other. Therefore, this empirical research contributes to scholarship that seeks to define the characteristics of African feminism(s), particularly as the field is criticised for being over-theorised.