Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Africa

Women, Gender, and Sexualities in AfricaThis book is a collection of significant analytical and critical writings on how the structures of power have exerted systematic governance over women. Women, Gender, and Sexualities in Africa also addresses how the rhetorical devices of tradition and modernity have played important roles in the control and appropriation of African womens bodies. The chapters draw on history, literature, political science, journalism, sociology, comparative studies,

The volume fittingly begins with "African Literature and Cultural Identity

Notable scholars whose works appear in this collection of relevant essays include James  L

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