Gender Epistemologies in Africa: Gendering Traditions, Spaces, Social Institutions, and Identities - Hardcoverby O. Oyewumi (Author) This book brings together a variety of studies that are engaged with notions of gender in different African localities, institutions and historical time periods. The objective is to expand empirical and theoretical studies that take seriously the idea that in order to understand gender and gender relations in Africa, we must start with Africa. If gender emerges out of particular histories and social contexts, we must therefore