Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa
Tradition, struggle and change
Editors
Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa: Tradition, Struggle and Change is the first book to bring together the topics of language and gender, African languages, and gender in African contexts, and it does so in a descriptive, explanatory and critical way. Including fascinating new work and new, often challenging data from Botswana, Chad, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this collection looks at some ‘traditional’ uses of language in relation to the gender of its speakers and the gendered nature of the languages themselves; it also identifies and explores social change in terms of both gender and sexuality, as reflected in and constructed by language and discourse. The contributions to this volume are accessibly written and will be of interest to students and established academics working on African sociolinguistics and discourse, as well as those whose interest is language, gender and sexuality.
[IMPACT: Studies in Language, Culture and Society, 33] 2013. xi, 331 pp.
Publishing status: Available
© John Benjamins Publishing Company
Table of Contents
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Acknowledgements | p. xi
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Gender and language in sub-Saharan Africa: A valid epistemology?Lilian Lem Atanga, Sibonile Edith Ellece, Lia Litosseliti and Jane Sunderland | pp. 1–26
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Part 1. Gender and linguistic description
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Chapter 1. Issues of language and gender in iweto marriage as practised by the Kamba in KenyaCatherine Wawasi Kitetu and Angelina Nduku Kioko | pp. 29–52
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Chapter 2. Language, gender and age(ism) in SetswanaMompoloki Mmangaka Bagwasi and Jane Sunderland | pp. 53–78
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Chapter 3. Variation with gender in the tonal speech varieties of Kera (Chadic)Mary Pearce | pp. 79–93
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Part 2. Public settings and gendered language use
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Chapter 4. Language, gender and social construction in a pre-school in GaboroneRose Letsholo | pp. 97–116
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Chapter 5. Variation in address forms for Nigerian married and unmarried women in the workplaceAbolaji S. Mustapha | pp. 117–128
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Part 3. Mediated masculinities and femininities
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Chapter 6. A new South African man? Beer, masculinity and social changeTommaso M. Milani and Mooniq Shaikjee | pp. 131–148
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Chapter 7. The ‘Tinto’ image in contemporary Tswana songs: Masculinities in crisis?Sibonile Edith Ellece | pp. 149–176
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Chapter 8.Language and gender in popular music in BotswanaRosaleen O.B. Nhlekisana | pp. 177–202
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Part 4. Gendered struggles and change
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Chapter 9. Sex discourses and the construction of gender identity in Sesotho: A case study of police interviews of rape/sexual assault victimsPuleng Hanong Thetela | pp. 205–215
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Chapter 10. Student Pidgin: A masculine code encroached on by young womenKari Dako | pp. 217–231
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Chapter 11. Gendered linguistic choices among isiZulu-speaking women in contemporary South AfricaStephanie Rudwick | pp. 233–251
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Chapter 12. Homophobic language and linguistic resistance in KwaZulu-Natal, South AfricaThabo Msibi | pp. 253–274
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Chapter 13. “I cannot be blamed for my own assault”: Ghanaian media discourses on the context of blame in Mzbel’s sexual assaultsGrace Diabah | pp. 275–298
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Part 5. Epilogue
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African feminism?Lilian Lem Atanga | pp. 301–314
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Gender, sexuality and language in African contexts: Bibliography | pp. 315–323
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Index | pp. 327–331
“This collection of chapters documents multimodal discourse practices of males and females in various African languages and national contexts, as well as the practices that constitute masculinity and femininity in these contexts. This, in and of itself, is a contribution to international scholarship on language, gender, and Africa. In addition, the edited volume contributes a number of distinct perspectives on what qualities African feminism(s) could or should have, especially African feminism(s) that could enhance research on language, culture, and society.”
Steven P. Black, Georgia State University, in Language and Society 43: 473–483, 2014
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Subjects
Main BIC Subject
CFB: Sociolinguistics
Main BISAC Subject
LAN009000: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General