Gender and Language in Sub-Saharan Africa

Abstract

1. Acknowledgements 2. Gender and language in sub-Saharan Africa: A valid epistemology? (by Atanga, Lilian Lem) 3. Part 1. Gender and linguistic description 4. Chapter 1. Issues of language and gender in iweto marriage as practised by the Kamba in Kenya (by Kitetu, Catherine Wawasi) 5. Chapter 2. Language, gender and age(ism) in Setswana (by Bagwasi, Mompoloki Mmangaka) 6. Chapter 3. Variation with gender in the tonal speech varieties of Kera (Chadic) (by Pearce, Mary) 7. Part 2. Public settings and gendered language use 8. Chapter 4. Language, gender and social construction in a pre-school in Gaborone (by Letsholo, Rose) 9. Chapter 5. Variation in address forms for Nigerian married and unmarried women in the workplace (by Mustapha, Abolaji S.) 10. Part 3. Mediated masculinities and femininities 11. Chapter 6. A new South African man?: Beer, masculinity and social change (by Milani, Tommaso M.) 12. Chapter 7. The 'Tinto' image in contemporary Tswana songs: Masculinities in crisis? (by Ellece, Sibonile Edith) 13. Chapter 8.Language and gender in popular music in Botswana (by Nhlekisana, Rosaleen O.B.) 14. Part 4. Gendered struggles and change 15. Chapter 9. Sex discourses and the construction of gender identity in Sesotho: A case study of police interviews of rape/sexual assault victims (by Thetela, Puleng Hanong) 16. Chapter 10. Student Pidgin: A masculine code encroached on by young women (by Dako, Kari) 17. Chapter 11. Gendered linguistic choices among isiZulu-speaking women in contemporary South Africa (by Rudwick, Stephanie) 18. Chapter 12. Homophobic language and linguistic resistance in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa (by Msibi, Thabo) 19. Chapter 13. I cannot be blamed for my own assault: Ghanaian media discourses on the context of blame in Mzbel's sexual assaults (by Diabah, Grace) 20. Part 5. Epilogue 21. African feminism? (by Atanga, Lilian Lem) 22. Gender, sexuality and language in African contexts: Bibliography 24. Index