2012, ISBN: 9781847010353

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 unde… Mehr…

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 'culture and 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 Trade Books>Hardcover>World History>Africa History>Africa History, Boydell & Brewer, Limited Core >2<

ISBN: 9781847010353

Find Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique by Signe Arnfred in Hardcover and other formats in Literary Collections > African. Literary Collections 9781847010353, James Currey

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Find Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique by Signe Arnfred in Hardcover and other formats in Literary Collections > African. Media > Books new, James Currey

2011, ISBN: 9781847010353

Re-thinking Gender in Africa, Buch, Hardcover, [PU: James Currey], James Currey, 2011

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