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Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique - Re-thinking Gender in Africa (Hardcover, New)
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Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique - Re-thinking Gender in Africa (Hardcover, New)
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Demonstrates shortcomings in Western feminist conceptualizations,
and shows how insights from African feminist thinking may enhance
understandings of gender, both in and beyond Africa. Winner of the
2012 gender research award KRAKA-prisen. This book is about gender
politics in Mozambique over three decades from 1975 to 2005. The
book is also about different ways of understanding gender and
sexuality. Gender policies from Portuguese colonialism, through
Frelimo socialism to later neo-liberal economic regimes share
certain basic assumptions about men, women and gender relations.
But to what extent do such assumptions fit the ways in which rural
Mozambican men and women see themselves? A major line of argument
in the book is that gender relations should be investigated, not
assumed, and that policies not matching people's lives are not
likely to succeed. The empirical data, on which the argument is
based, are first a unique body of data material collected 1982-1984
by the national women's organization, the OMM [when the author was
employed as a sociologist in the organization] and secondly data
resulting from more recent fieldwork in northern Mozambique.
Importantly inspired by African post-colonial feminist lines of
thinking, the book engages in a project of re-mapping and
re-interpreting 'cultureand tradition'. In this context, the book
investigates in particular matriliny [c. 40% of Mozambique's
population live under conditions of matriliny] and female
initiation. The findings open new avenues for gender politics, and
for re-thinking sexuality and gender - in Africa and beyond. Signe
Arnfred is Associate Professor, Dept of Society &
Globalization, and Centre for Gender, Power & Diversity,
Roskilde University
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