Readings in Gender in Africa

Twenty-eight truly fantastic essays covering themes from governance to religion to livelihoods to identity.... - -- Lara Scott * AFRICAN REVIEW OF BOOKS *
Cornwall's Readings in Gender in Africa brings together existing work in a number of key areas so placing the substantial growth of transdisciplinary teaching and research in African gender studies during the last three decades beyond refute. She is to be commended for including the work of leading African scholars alongside that of their European and North American counterparts, thus providing an excellent and long overdue teaching text that works to remedy the overdetermination of African scholarship by Western institutional and intellectual interests. African gender relations emerge as a key arena of social transformation, which has inspired theoretical insights of global import. - -- Amina Mama, African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town