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Cover
About the author
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Introduction: Writing African women: gender, popular culture and literature in West Africa
Part I Theory and Politics
1 Reading towards a theorization of African women’s writing: African women writers within feminist gynocriticism
2 Masculinity: the military, women and cultural politics in Nigeria
3 Women’s role in Ghana’s social development
Part II Literatures
4 A life on the women’s page: Treena Kwenta’s Diary
5 Recovering lost voices: the short stories of Mabel Dove-Danquah
6 Rewriting popular myths of female subordination: selected stories by Theodora Adimora-Ezeigbo and May Ifeoma Nwoye
7 Gender conflict in Flora Nwapa’s novels
8 Culture and gender semantics in Flora Nwapa’s poetry
9 Behind the veil in northern Nigeria: the writing of Zaynab Alkali and Hauwa Ali
10 The onus of womanhood: Mariama Ba and Zaynab Alkali
11 Narrative technique and the politics of gender: Ama Ata Aidoo’s Our Sister Killjoy and No Sweetness Here
Part III Popular Culture
12 Hausa women as oral storytellers in northern Nigeria
13 Gender politics in West African mask performance
14 Anatomy of masculine power: three perspectives on marriage and gender in Nigerian non-fiction
15 Gender tempered through metal: women in metal-casting in Benin City, Nigeria
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