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" Researching African Women and Gender Studies: "
Mary Johnson Osirim, Josephine Beoku-Betts, Akosua Adomako Ampofo, et al.
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AL
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1063726
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LA107355
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10.1163/156921008X359560
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English
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Akosua Adomako Ampofo
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Josephine Beoku-Betts
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Mary Johnson Osirim
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Researching African Women and Gender Studies: [Article] : New Social Science Perspectives\ Mary Johnson Osirim, Josephine Beoku-Betts, Akosua Adomako Ampofo, et al.
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Leiden: Brill
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African and Asian Studies
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2008
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7/4
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327–341
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Research on African women and gender studies has grown substantially to a position where African-centered gender theories and praxis contribute to theorizing on global feminist scholarship. Africanist scholars in this field have explored new areas such as transnational and multiracial feminisms, both of which address the complex and interlocking conditions that impact women's lives and produce oppression, opportunity and privilege. In addition, emergent African-centered research on women and gender explores those critical areas of research frequently addressed in the global North which have historically been ignored or marginalized in the African context such as family, work, social and political movements, sexuality, health, technology, migration, and popular culture. This article examines these developments in African gender studies scholarship and highlights the contributions that new research on understudied linguistic populations, masculinity, migration, political development and social movements and the virtual world are making to global feminist discourse. Research on African women and gender studies has grown substantially to a position where African-centered gender theories and praxis contribute to theorizing on global feminist scholarship. Africanist scholars in this field have explored new areas such as transnational and multiracial feminisms, both of which address the complex and interlocking conditions that impact women's lives and produce oppression, opportunity and privilege. In addition, emergent African-centered research on women and gender explores those critical areas of research frequently addressed in the global North which have historically been ignored or marginalized in the African context such as family, work, social and political movements, sexuality, health, technology, migration, and popular culture. This article examines these developments in African gender studies scholarship and highlights the contributions that new research on understudied linguistic populations, masculinity, migration, political development and social movements and the virtual world are making to global feminist discourse.
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FEMINISM
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INTERSECTIONALITY
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LINGUISTIC REGIONS
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MASCULINITY
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MIGRATION
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SOCIAL MOVEMENTS
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TRANSNATIONAL FEMINISM
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TRANSNATIONALISM
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VIRTUAL MIGRATION
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10.1163/156921008X359560
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