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Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique: Re-Thinking Gender in Africa

Sexuality and Gender Politics in Mozambique: Re-Thinking Gender in Africa

Arnfred, Signe

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Literary CriticismGeneral Gender StudiesWomen's Studies

ISBN10: 1847010350
ISBN13: 9781847010353
Publisher: James Currey
Published: Oct 20 2011
Pages: 328
Weight: 1.60
Height: 1.00 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
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.

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