Decoloniality in Gender Discourse and Praxis

A View from the Margins

Mtisunge Isabel Kamlongera

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2025
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040351413
• Topic: Politique et relations internationales
• Subtopic: Politique africaine

This book showcases Global South theorizations and understandings of gender.

By taking voices from the margins and putting them center stage, this book provides an important example of decoloniality in action, challenging a field that continues to be rooted in Western Feminist epistemology. This book first analyzes the history and development of gender discourse, before going on to investigate non-Western philosophy and frameworks around gender. Each chapter presents instances of decoloniality in action, with possible retheorizations and rationalizations of how to be decolonial within gender discourse and praxis. This book concludes by considering what the future implications of a truly decolonial gender discourse and praxis would be.

Offering detailed empirical accounts of decoloniality in action, this book will be a useful guide for researchers of gender and post-colonial studies.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 1 “Herstory” Reclaimed: African Women in Precolonial Societies
• 2 No Colonised Females Are Women: A Query into the Discursive Exclusion of Black Womxn from the Category of “Woman”
• 3 Challenging Western Paradigms: Decolonial Feminism and Gender Justice in Africa
• 4 Intersectionality, African Feminism and Decolonial African Feminist Praxis
• 5 Unlocking Women’s Political Agency in Africa through Decolonial Thinking
• 6 The Ontology of the ‘Swart Gevaar’: Decolonising Black Women’s Wombs in South Africa
• 7 Challenging Conventional Approaches: Examining Gender Dynamics and Decolonial Frameworks in Addressing Female Genital Cutting in Kenya
• 8 Localising Gender Expertise: Challenges and Prospects in the African Humanitarian Sector
• 9 Beyond Promises: Revisiting Empowerment through Decolonial Perspectives on Low-Carbon Technologies and Women’s Livelihoods in Malawi
• 10 Reconciling Agency and Belonging: African Women in Migration Stories
• Index