African Women's History: Themes and Perspectives

Berger, Iris

doi:10.1353/cch.2003.0005

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“…Single, widowed, or separated women expressed their dissatisfaction with the difficulties of not having a husband. Older wives in our sample perceived situations of gender inequality to a greater extent than younger women, which is consistent with research by Herbert () and Berguer (). All viewed these differences as a natural situation, although the main problem highlighted was their heavy workload, and men acknowledged this.…”

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“…The average age (45 years) of the women participants in both initiatives is similar, and they are usually first wives. They have already moved into an age category where they are likely to be able to exercise more choice due to their greater experience and therefore increased awareness of inequality in the household (Berguer ; Bryceson ). Croll and Beall pointed out that first wives appeared to have more social connections than younger wives, and both gender and generation were important to our understanding of social networks (Beall ; Croll :381).…”

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Gender Inequality, Processes of Adaptation, and Female Local Initiatives in Cash Crop Production in Northern Tanzania

2016

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This article contributes to development research, as well as research studying inequality in agricultural systems. We use empirical data from an ethnographic study in the village of Mamba, in northern Tanzania (2006)(2007)(2008)(2009). This study analyzes the question of changing gender relations and the patriarchal constraints to collective action under market liberalization of cash crops. Our findings demonstrate that the shift to a market economy has influenced the nature of production relations, deepening inequalities in gender relations and the position of women. However, some women circumvent their disadvantaged situations through their association with various types of collective action groups or networks. In order to investigate the different impacts on women's lives, we analyze women's interest and motivations for these collective actions. We also identify the processes of adaptation to the new production relations through the coffee trade network and tomato cultivation groups, two local initiatives. We analyze the differences between these two forms of collective action and theorize on their different impacts on women's empowerment.

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Gender Inequality, Processes of Adaptation, and Female Local Initiatives in Cash Crop Production in Northern Tanzania

2016

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“…From a situation of holistic gender relations in traditional African societies during the pre-colonial era, women were disempowered, and their agency diminished during the colonial period. The introduction of Victorian values of domesticity with the distinction between the male public sphere and female private sphere altered women's power relations and reinforced western notions of gender inequality, which systemised and subordinated Ghanaian women at the expense of their traditional gender complementarity (Allman, Geiger, & Nakanyike, 2002;Berger, 2003;Sheldon, 2017). Yet, elite women collectively mobilized resources through the formation of charitable associations based on welfare concerns to create limited space that they could hold their own.…”

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Historicising The Women’s Manifesto for Ghana: A culmination of women’s activism in Ghana

Amoah-Boampong¹

2018

Legon J. Hum.

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Women are one of Ghana's hidden growth resources. Yet, Ghanaian women have been marginalized from the developmental discourse by a succession of hegemonic political administrations. At best, Ghanaian women were said to have a quiet activism, although each epoch had its own character of struggle. Bringing together history, gender and development, this article examines the historical trajectory of female agency in postcolonial Ghana. It argues that through the historisation of women's activism, Ghanaian women's agency and advocacy towards women's rights and gender equality concerns rose from the era of quiet activism characterised by women's groups whose operations hardly questioned women's social status to contestation with the state epitomized by the creation of The Women's Manifesto for Ghana in 2004 which played a critical role in women's collective organisation and served as a key pathway of empowerment.

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“…Insofar as its exceptional status reinscribes the norms of colonial thinking, invoking Dahomey as a precedent for Wakanda's fictitious modernity is problematic. As Iris Berger (2003) notes, independence movements that set the agenda for politics and intellectual life in midtwentieth-centur y African countries "tied their legitimacy in part to a reimagined past, both colonial and precolonial." Women's perspectives remained marginal to discourses on the formation of national identity.…”

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Desiring Blackness: A Queer Orientation to Marvel’sBlack Panther, 1998–2016

Carrington¹

2018

American Literature

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The socially symbolic figure of the superhero comes into close contact with vernacular intellectual critiques of race and modernity through the much-anticipated film adaptation of Marvel's Black Panther comics. This article analyzes the implications for queer approaches to black popular cultural production of the knowledge practices that inspire Black Panther 's depiction of an African utopia. The intertexts involved include histories, travel writings, and other comics. Focusing on the divergent treatments by authors Christopher Priest (1998-2003) and Ta-Nehisi Coates (2016) of the title character's black female comrades-in-arms, this reading interrogates how race consciousness and colonial legacies inform the discourses of desire operating within the text. The term desiring blackness describes an orientation to reading that defers to African Americanist and black diasporic considerations to ground the task of interpretation in conditions that elicit compromise among disparate lines of theoretical inquiry: queer phenomenology, decolonial epistemology, Afrofuturism, and queer of color critique.

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African Women's History: Themes and Perspectives

Cited by 13 publications

References 19 publications

Gender Inequality, Processes of Adaptation, and Female Local Initiatives in Cash Crop Production in Northern Tanzania

Gender Inequality, Processes of Adaptation, and Female Local Initiatives in Cash Crop Production in Northern Tanzania

Historicising The Women’s Manifesto for Ghana: A culmination of women’s activism in Ghana

Desiring Blackness: A Queer Orientation to Marvel’sBlack Panther, 1998–2016

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