Deep hiStories

Gender and Colonialism in Southern Africa
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-90-420-1219-6
Verlag: Brill | Rodopi

Buch, Englisch, Band 57, 356 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 230 mm, Gewicht: 689 g

Reihe: Cross/Cultures

Deep hiStories represents the first substantial publication on gender and colonialism in Southern Africa in recent years, and suggests methodological ways forward for a post-apartheid and postcolonial generation of scholars. The volume’s theorizing, which is based on Southern African regional material, is certain to impact on international debates on gender – debates which have shifted from earlier feminisms towards theorizations which include sexual difference, subjectivities, colonial (and postcolonial) discourses and the politics of representation. Deep hiStories goes beyond the dichotomies which have largely characterized the discussion of women and gender in Africa, and explores alternative models of interpretation such as ‘genealogies of voice’. These ‘genealogies’ transcend the conventional binaries of visibility and invisibility, speaking and silence. Works covering South Africa from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and Zimbabwe, Namibia and Cameroon in the twentieth include:

Colonial readings of Foucault
Ideologies of domesticity
Torture and testimony of slave women
Women as missionary targets
Gender and the public sphere
Race, science and spectacle
Male nursing on mines
Infanticide, insanity and social control
Fertility and the postcolonial state
Literary reconstructions of the past
Gender-blending and code-switching
De/colonizing the queer

The collection includes diverse research on the body in Southern Africa for the first time. It brings new subtleties to the ongoing debates on culture, civility and sexuality, dealing centrally with constructions of race and whiteness in history and literature. It is an important resource for teachers and students of gender and colonial studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Woodward, Wendy

Hayes, Patricia

Minkley, Gary

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Postkoloniale Literatur
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of figures
Prologue
Introduction

Deep HiStories: Gender and Colonialism in Southern Africa
WENDY WOODWARD, PATRICIA HAYES AND GARY MINKLEY

Genealogies of voice

State Racism and the Education of Desires:

A Colonial Reading of Foucault
ANN LAURA STOLER

Domesticity and Dispossession: The Ideologies of Domesticity and ‘Home’ and the British Construction of the Primitive from the Eighteenth to the Early Nineteenth Centuries
ELIZABETH ELBOURNE

Contradictory Tongues: Torture and Testimony of Two Slave Women in the Eastern Cape Courts in 1934
WENDY WOODWARD

Women's Talk and the Colonial State: The Case of Sir John Wylde, 1931-1933
KIRSTEN MACKENZIE

Science and the Spectacle: /Khanako's South Africa, 1936-1937
CIRAJ RASSOOL AND PATRICIA HAYES

Steeped histories

‘Moedermeesteres’: Dutch-Afrikaans Women’s Entry into the Public Sphere in the Cape Colony 1860-1896
MARIJKE Du TOIT

‘We respected them for their colour’: Male Nursing on the Mines in Twentieth-Century South Africa
SHULA MARKS

Faithful Daughter, Murdering Mother: Transgression and Social Control in Colonial Namibia
MEREDITH MCKITTRICK WITH FANUEL SHINGENGE

Gender and Fertility in a Postcolonial Moment: The Prohibition of Depo-Provera in Zimbabwe 1981
AMY KALER

Sounding lines

Self-Representation and the Reconstruction of Southern African Pasts: Bessie Head’s A Bewitched Crossroad
DESIRÉE LEWIS

Gender-Blending and Code-Switching in the South African Novel: A Postcolonial Model
JOHAN JACOBS

Targeted for Change: Cameroonian Women and Missionary Designs in Some Fiction of Mongo Beti
ELIAS BONGMBA

Colonizing the Queer: Some Problems in Curating South Africa's First National Gay and Lesbian Art Exhibition
JOAN BELLIS
Notes on contributors