TY - BOOK ID - 22303564 TI - Deep histories: gender and colonialism in southern Africa AU - Woodward, Wendy AU - Hayes, Patricia AU - Minkley, Gary PY - 2002 SN - 9042012293 9042012196 9789042012196 9789042012295 9789004486416 9004486410 PB - Amsterdam Rodopi DB - UniCat KW - Afrique australe KW - History of civilization KW - South Africa KW - Sex role KW - Women KW - Rôle selon le sexe KW - Femmes KW - Social conditions. KW - Conditions sociales KW - Africa, Southern KW - Colonization KW - History. KW - Colonisation KW - Histoire KW - Social conditions KW - Imperialism KW - Land settlement KW - Colonies KW - Decolonization KW - Emigration and immigration KW - Human females KW - Wimmin KW - Woman KW - Womon KW - Womyn KW - Females KW - Human beings KW - Femininity KW - Gender role KW - Sex (Psychology) KW - Sex differences (Psychology) KW - Social role KW - Gender expression KW - Sexism KW - Gender roles KW - Gendered role KW - Gendered roles KW - Role, Gender KW - Role, Gendered KW - Role, Sex KW - Roles, Gender KW - Roles, Gendered KW - Roles, Sex KW - Sex roles KW - Colonial studies KW - South africa UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:22303564 AB - 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. ER -