Signe Arnfred

Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique (eBook, PDF)

Re-thinking Gender in Africa

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Produktbeschreibung

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 men and women see themselves? A major line of argument in the book is that gender relations should be investigated, not assumed, and that policies not matching people's lives are not likely to succeed.
The empirical data, on which the argument is based, are first a unique body of data material collected 1982-1984 by the national women's organization, the OMM [when the author was employed as a sociologist in the organization] and secondly data resulting from more recent fieldwork in northern Mozambique.
Importantly inspired by African post-colonial feminist lines of thinking, the book engages in a project of re-mapping and re-interpreting 'cultureand tradition'. In this context, the book investigates in particular matriliny [c. 40% of Mozambique's population live under conditions of matriliny] and female initiation. The findings open new avenues for gender politics, and for re-thinking sexuality and gender - in Africa and beyond.

Signe Arnfred is Associate Professor, Dept of Society & Globalization, and Centre for Gender, Power & Diversity, Roskilde University

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Abingdon Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Oktober 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781846159978
• Artikelnr.: 56164651

Autorenporträt

Signe Arnfred

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Part I Conceptions of Gender and Gender Politics in Mozambique Women in Mozambique: Gender Struggle and Gender Politics
1988 Notes on Gender and Modernization. Examples from Mozambique
1990 Family Forms and Gender Policy in Mozambique
1990 Simone de Beauvoir in Africa: Woman - The Second Sex?: Issues of African Feminist Thought
2001 Conceptions of Gender in Colonial and Post-colonial Discourses
2004 Part II Night of the Women
Day of the Men: Meanings and Interpretations of Female Initiation Feminism and Gendered Bodies: On Female Inititation in Northern Mozambique
2008 Moonlight and Mato: Initiation Rituals in Ribáuè
2000 Wineliwa - the Creation of Women: Initiation Rituals during Frelimo's Abaixo Politics
1990 Female Initiation and the Coloniality of Gender
2010 Situational Gender and Subversive Sex? African Contributions to Feminist Theorizing
2008 Part III Implications of Matriliny in Northern Mozambique Male Mythologies: An Inquiry into Assumptions of Feminism and Anthropology
2006-2007 Ancestral Spirits
Land and Food: Gendered Power and Land Tenure in Ribáuè
2001 Sex
Food and Female Power: On Women's Lives in Ribáuè
2006-2007 Tufo Dancing: Muslim Women's Culture in Ilha de Moçambique
2004 Epilogue