Feminist Knowledge | Bibliography: African Women's Studies II
While social transformation is obviously an implicit focus of most scholarly research, and especially of historically-oriented work, the growing attention to micro-level processes, undertaken from different and cross-disciplinary frameworks, has enriched scholarship enormously. The second issue of the Gender Issues Research Report Series (2001) is a key example of a compilation drawing together case studies from different parts of Africa on a wide range of processes and events associated with “social transformation". Increasingly, social change from a gendered perspective, (like “development"), has been conceptualised from the mid-nineties in relation to multiple processes and various levels of personal and collective experience. This marks an important shift away from technicist and fragmenting models, often rooted in top-down technologies of gender, that ignored the complexities of African women's actual experiences.
Regional
networks like the Southern African Research and Documentation Centre (SARDC)
have helped to coordinate innovative recent work in sub-Saharan Africa like
Dos Santos' Beyond Inequalities – Women in Angola (2000) and Da Silva's Beyond
Inequalities – Women in Mozambique (2001).
Alpern, S. 1998. Amazons of Black Sparta: The Women Warriors of Dahomey. New York/London: New York University Press/Hurst.
Akintunde, D. Ed. 2001. African Culture and the Quest for Women's Rights. Ibadan: Sefer.
Armstrong, K. Ed. 1999. Shifting Ground and Cultural Bodies: Postcolonial Gender Relations in Africa and India. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America.
Bay, E. 1998. Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey. University Press of Virginia.
Cooper, B. 1997. Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900–1989. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Crehan, K. 1997. The Fractured Community: Landscapes of Power and Gender in Rural Zambia. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Da Silva, T. and Andrade, X. 2000. Beyond Inequalities: Women in Mozambique. Harare, Zimbabwe: Southern African Research and Documentation Centre.
Dos Santos, N. 2000. Beyond Inequalities – Women in Angola. Harare, Zimbabwe: Southern African Research and Documentation Centre.
Gopal, G. and Salim, M. Eds. 1998. Gender and Law: Eastern Africa Speaks: Proceedings of the Conference Organized by the World Bank and the Economic Commission for Africa. Washington, DC/Nairobi: World Bank/Quest and Insight Publishers, Friends-of-the-Book Foundation.
Greene, S. 1996. Gender, Ethnicity, and Social Change on the Upper Slave Coast: A History of the Anlo-Ewe. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Griffiths, A. 1997. In the Shadow of Marriage: Gender and Justice in an African Community. University of Chicago Press.
Grosz-Ngate, M. and Kokole, O. Eds. 1997. Gendered Encounters: Challenging Cultural Boundaries and Social Hierarchies in Africa. London: Routledge.
Kuehychia, A. Ed. 1998. Women and Law in West Africa: Situational Analysis of Some Key Issues Affecting Women. Legon: University of Ghana.
Larbi, M. 2000. "New Gender Perspectives for the Millennium: Challenges and Successful Models of North-South Collaboration." West Africa Review, 2, 1, August.
Larsson, A., Mapetla, M. and Schlyter, A. Eds. 1998. Changing Gender Relations in Southern Africa: Issues of Urban Life. Roma, Lesotho/Oxford: National University of Lesotho, Institute of Southern African Studies/African Books Collective.
Nzenza, S. 1997. "Women in Postcolonial Africa: Between African Men and Western Feminists", in Darby, P. ed. At the Edge of International Relations: Postcolonialism, Gender and Dependency. New York/London: Pinter.
Oheneba-Sakyi, Y. and Awusabo-Asare, K. 1999. Female Autonomy, Family Decision Making, and Demographic Behavior in Africa. Lewiston, New York: Edwin Mellen Press. Studies in African Economic and Social Development 12.
OSSREA. 2001, (first edition, 1994). Gender Issues Research Report Series. OSSREA.
Rathele, K. 2001. "Between ‘Ouens': Everyday Makings of Black Masculinity", in Morrell, R. ed. Changing Men in Southern Africa. Pietermaritzburg: University of Natal Press.
Rathgeber, E. and Ofwona A. E. Eds. 2000. Gender and the Information Revolution in Africa. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre (IDRC).
Tibatemwa-Ekirikubinza, L. 2000. Women's Violent Crime in Uganda: More Sinned against Than Sinning. Kampala: Fountain Publishers.
Van den Berg, A. 1997. Land Right, Marriage Left: Women's Engagement of Insecurity in North Cameroon. Leiden: CNWS Publications.
Warketin, R. 1999. "Rural and Urban Bira Women: An Anthropological Case Study from Central Africa", in Anthropos, 94: 4–6.