Engendering African Social Sciences (Entrepreneur Magazine's Expert Advice) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 286978063X ISBN 13: 9782869780637

Publisher: CODESRIA, 1997

Synopsis

This was one of the most pioneering works in the field of gender and social sciences in the African context, and remains an authoritative text. It is an extensively researched and forcefully argued study offering a critique and directions for gendering the social sciences in Africa. The sixteen chapters cover methodological and epistemological questions and substantive issues in the various social science disciplines, ranging from economics, politics, and history, to sociology and anthropology. Thirteen scholars contribute, including the three distinguished women editors. The translation, which is edited from the English and newly introduced by the renowned feminist scholar Fatou Sow, is an achievement itself, an incursion into the notorious difficulties of translating what are notably Anglo-Saxon concepts of sex and gender into the French language and distinctive academic environment; of interpreting western concepts of feminism within the African environment; as well as being an opportunity to revisit what deserves to become a classic text and reach a wider audience.

Edition details

• Publisher: CODESRIA
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 286978063X
• ISBN 13: 9782869780637
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 484
• Editor: Imam Ayesha, Mama Amina