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WS 301 Women from Africa:Cultures, Identities, RepresentationsREADING SCHEDULEWeek 1 – May 18Introduction to the course: Questions of MethodologyChandra Talpade Mohanty,“Under Western Eyes: Feminist Scholarship and Colonial Discourse”Screening: Reassemblage (dir. Trinh Minh-Ha, 1987)Week 2 – May 25Representation: Cultures, Identities, FeminismsNawal El Saadawi, “Why Keep Asking Me about My Identity?”Trinh T. Minh-Ha, “Not You / Like You: Post-Colonial Women and the Interlocking Questions ofIdentity and Difference”Gwendolyn Mikell, “African Feminism: Toward a New Politics of Representation”Obioma Nnaemeka, “Nego-Feminisms: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa‟s Way”(online, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29.2 (2003): 357-385)Screening: Sisters of the Screen (dir. Beti Ellerson, 2002)Week 3 – June 1North Africa and the Discourse of OrientalismLeila Ahmed, “The Discourse of the Veil”Winifred Woodhull, “Unveiling Algeria”Lila Abu-Lughod, “The Marriage of Feminism and Islamism in Egypt: Selective Repudiation as aDynamic of Postcolonial Cultural Politics”Fatima Mermissi, Doing Daily Battle: Interviews with Moroccan WomenScreening: The Battle of Algeria (dir. Gillo Pontecorvo, 1966)2
Week 4 – June 8Local and Global EconomiesCritical Response to Doing Daily Battle dueFelix K. Ekechi, “Gender and Economic Power: The Case of Igbo Market Women of Eastern Nigeria”Michael Kevane, “The Land Tenure Rights of African Women”Beverly Ott and Olivier Hauville, “Banking with Women in Togo and Benin”(online, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society 29.2 (2003):556-560)Kate Hampshire, “Flexibility in Domestic Organization and Seasonal Migration among the Fulani ofNorthern Burkina Faso” (online, Africa 76.3 (2006): 402-426)Screening: Europlex (dir. Ursula Biemann and Angela Sanders, 2003)Clip from Asante Market Women (Granada TV, 1982)Week 5 – June 15EducationMichael Kevane, “Investments in Education”Bill Gaudelli, “African Women: Educational Opportunities and the Dynamics of Change”Oystein Kravdal, “Education and Fertility in Sub-Saharan Africa: Individual and Community Effects”(online, Demography 39.2 (2002): 233-250)Karin Willemse, “„A Room of One‟s Own‟: Single Female Teachers Negotiating the Islamist Discourse inSudan” (online, Northeast African Studies 8.3 (2001): 99-128)Ama Ata Aidoo, Changes: A Love Story (Part I)Screening: Clip from Educating Lucia (2003)Week 6 – June 22Marriage, Gender relations, and the Politics of the BodyDorothy Dee Vellenga, “Who is a Wife? Legal Expressions of Heterosexual Conflicts in Ghana”Sean Hawkins, “„The Woman in Question‟: Marriage and Identity in the Colonial Courts of NorthernGhana, 1907-1954” (online book, Women in African Colonial Histories)Akosua Adomako Ampofo, “Whose „Unmet Need‟? Dis/Agreement about Childbearing amongGhanainan Couples”T.K. Biaya, “„Crushing the Pistachio‟: Eroticism in Senegal and the Art of Ousmane Ndiaye Dago”(electronic, Public Culture 12.3 (2000): 707-720)Melissa Tandiwe Myambo “Deciduous Gazettes” (pp. 29-31)Ama Aita Aidoo. Changes: A Love Story (Part II)Screening: Xala (dir. Sembène Ousmane, 1974)3
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