Patriarchy and Gender in Africa

Veronica Fynn Bruey

• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Year: 2021
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781978757240
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Gender Studies
• Index: Social Sciences

This timely and expansive multidisciplinary and transdisciplinary collection dissects precolonial, colonial, and post-independence issues of male dominance, power, and control over the female body in the legal, socio-cultural, and political contexts in Africa. Contributors focus on the historical, theoretical, and empirical narratives of intersecting perspectives of gender and patriarchy in at least ten countries across the major sub-regions of the African continent. In these well-researched chapters, authors provide a deeper understanding of patriarchy and gender inequality in identifying misogyny, resisting male supremacy, reforming discriminatory laws, embracing human-centered public policies, expanding academic scholarship on the continent, and more.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Patriarchy and Gender in Africa
• Patriarchy and Gender in Africa
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1
• The Past Before Us
• Chapter 2
• Intersectionality, Women’s Rights in Africa, and the Maputo Protocol
• Chapter 3
• Building the Patriarchy Index for Sub-Saharan Africa
• Chapter 4
• Patriarchy and Gender Challenges in Africa
• Chapter 5
• Widow Inheritance in Northern Uganda
• Chapter 6
• Patriarchal and Traditional Gender Roles in Pre- and Post-Independent Eritrea
• Chapter 7
• Equal Spaces or Patriarchy?
• Chapter 8
• Zambia’s Prison Laws and Allied Legislation
• Chapter 9
• Challenging “Supernormal Patriarchy” in Artisanal and Small-Scale Mining Policies and Laws in Zambia
• Chapter 10
• Football Stadiums as Patriarchal Spaces
• Chapter 11
• Mame Diarra
• Chapter 12
• Misogyny, Xenophobia, and Masculinity in the Academy
• Index
• About the Contributors
• About the Editor