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• W292197715 abstract "GENDER ACTIVISM AND STUDIES IN AFRICA, EDITED BY SIGNE ARNFRED, AMANDA GOUWS, AND BABERE KERATA CHACHA, DAKAR: CODESRIA, 2005 ACTIVIST VOICES: FEMINIST STRUGGLES FOR AN ALTERNATIVE WORLD, EDITED BY MARJORIE MBILINYI, MARY RUSIMBI, CHACHAGE S. L. CHACHAGE, AND DEMERE KITUNGA, DAR ES SALAAM: E & D, 2003 Women's activism in Africa has taken many forms in its long history-from political commentaries of performers, to organized protests, to advocacy by national organizations. In these two important collections, (mostly) African and activists pull back from exhilaration and exhaustion of their daily struggles to reflect on their achievements, challenges, and future. As such, they offer rare insights into dynamic tensions and social divides inherent in efforts to scale up activism and advocacy from community to nation. Four chapters in Gender Activism and Studies in Africa provide insightful overviews of relationship between gender activism and formation of women's and gender studies programs in different countries: Nigeria (Charmaine Pereira), Ghana (Mansah Prah), South Africa (Amanda Gouws), and Uganda (Josephine Ahikire). Pereira analyzes gaps between academic agendas and daily experiences of gender inequity and subordination lived through by most Nigerian women. She explores how state funding, donor agendas, regional networking, international feminism, and professional aspirations of academic women have widened divide. In contrast, Prah argues that academic feminism and activism have so far had a fairly productive partnership (38) in Ghana, especially in mobilizing against domestic violence. This alliance, however, is predicated on a common middle-class background and thus a shared perspective on efficacy of rights-based approaches. Gouws contends that institutionalization of gender concerns in academy in South Africa has depoliticized activism, in part because of lack of a strong women's movement since end of apartheid in 1994. She argues that relationship between women academics and women activists has been at once uncomfortable and mutually beneficial, because of tensions over representation and racism and differences of experience (40). Finally, Ahikire's study of Uganda foregrounds debates over whether study of gender should be institutionally integrated or autonomous and produce theoretical versus applied knowledge. She rightly maintains that the thin line between academic feminism and activism becomes more complex when we consider lived situation of professed gender scholars (61). The authors of remaining five essays each pursue a different gender-related topic as a prism through which to view broader understandings of gender politics and gender studies. Charles Ukeje examines long history of social protest by women in oil-rich delta region of Nigeria. According to Ukeje, women's anticolonial struggles and their current demonstrations against oil companies share a concern with overcoming the crisis of capital accumulation and challenging contradictions of gender, class, impoverishment, and exploitation that fuel these crises (68). Babere Kerata Chacha explores practice of woman-to-woman marriage in Tanzania within frameworks of African customary law and colonial and postcolonial legal systems. In contrast to those who misrepresent practice as a sexual relationship between women, he draws on substantial evidence to show that although it was initially a way to enable women without sons to produce sons to secure their economic stability, it has become an economic relationship that allows some women to circumvent restrictions on their ability to obtain, invest in, and retain property. …" @default.
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