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The relationship between African women and feminism is a contentious one. Embedded in this connection is the question of whether sisterhood—a mantra assuming a common oppression of all women and signifying feminist international/cross-cultural relations—describes the symbolic and functional representation of African women. The contributors in this book are aware of the global discourse on women as articulated by Western feminists and interrogate the issues raised by the misinterpretation of African women of both black and white American feminists. The implications of the dominance of Western men and women in the production of knowledge about Africa are also explored.
This is one of the first collections written by African women who were born and raised in Africa and are now teaching in the United States. The papers here focus on a variety of issues including the uses and abuses of female circumcision in global feminist discourse, the problem of the criminalization approach to eradicating female circumcision, the effect of the image of the victimized African woman on development policy, and gender imperialism as a metascript of domination and oppression and as encountered by African women in the academy. This volume also raises profound questions about the idea that a common anatomy can form the basis of sororal solidarity among women of different colors, cultures, classes, nations, and religions.
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About the Author
Oyeronke Oyewumi is an associate professor of sociology at State University of New York at Stony Brook. Born in Nigeria, she was educated at the University of Ibadan and the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourse, which won a 1998 Distinguished Book Award of the American Sociological Association and was a finalist for the Herskovitts Prize of the African Studies Association in the same year.
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- PublisherAfrica World Press
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 0865436282
- ISBN 13 9780865436282
- BindingPaperback
- LanguageEnglish
- Number of pages282
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