Sexuality & gender politics in Mozambique : rethinking gender in Africa /: rethinking gender in Africa. (©2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Signe Arnfred.
• Other Names: Arnfred, Signe
• Contents: Introduction. Conceptions of gender and gender politics in Mozambique. Women in Mozambique: gender struggle and gender politics, 1987 -- Notes on gender and modernization, 1987 -- Family forms and gender policy in Mozambique 1975-1985, 1989-1990 -- Simone de Beauvoir in Africa: Woman -- the second sex?: Issues of African feminist thought, 2000 -- Conceptions of gender in colonial and post-colonial discourses, 2003 -- 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, 1999 -- Wineliwa -- the creation of women: initiation rituals during Frelimo's Abaixo Politics, 1990/2000 -- Female initiation and the coloniality of gender, 2000/2010 -- Situational gender and subversive sex? African contributions to feminist theorizing, 2007 -- Implications of matriliny in northern Mozambique. Male mythologies: an inquiry into assumptions of feminism and anthropology, 2005 -- Ancestral spirits, land and food: gendered power and land tenure in Ribáuè, 1999 -- Sex, food and female power: on women's lives in Ribáuè, 2006 -- Tufo dancing: Muslim women's culture in Ilha de Moçambique, 1999 -- Epilogue.
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge, Suffolk : James Currey
• Publication Date: 2011
• Copyright Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (328 pages), illustrations, maps
• Subjects: 305.4/2/09679; Women -- Mozambique -- Social conditions; Sex role -- Mozambique; Gender identity -- Mozambique; Gender identity -- Political aspects -- Mozambique; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Feminism & Feminist Theory; SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Black Studies (Global); Gender identity; Gender identity -- Political aspects; Sex role; Women -- Social conditions; Mozambique; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781846159978; 1846159970
• Related ISBNs: 1847010350; 9781847010353
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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