Papers by Stephan Miescher
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J.B. Metzler eBooks, 2006
<i>Hungochani: The History of a Dissident Sexuality in Southern Africa</i> (review)
Journal of the History of Sexuality, 2009
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Masculinities
John Wiley & Sons, Ltd eBooks, Sep 14, 2018
Been-To Visions
Ghana Studies, 2000
<i>A History of Indigenous Slavery in Ghana: From the 15th to the 19th Century</i>, Akosua Adoma Perbi
Africa Today, Dec 1, 2007
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International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2002
Introduction: When was gender?
African Studies Review, Jan 19, 2023
Emergent Masculinities is a groundbreaking study about Ohafia, the only matrilineal Igbo society.... more Emergent Masculinities is a groundbreaking study about Ohafia, the only matrilineal Igbo society. Most historical scholarship on masculinity has focused on the colonial and postcolonial eras, taking the late nineteenth century as an imagined baseline. Pushing back the exploration of masculinities into the precolonial period, Ndubueze Mbah presents the longue durée of a gender system in which women dominated men economically and politically. The book tracks how the process of achieving hegemonic masculinity changed in Ohafia, from cutting heads to gathering slaves, and then to accumulating commodities, academic degrees, and houses. As the first study to deploy such a deep historicization, the book radically alters our understanding of the construction of masculinities in West Africa. Mbah explores the gendered socio-political changes brought by the Atlantic slave trade, the Atlantic "legitimate trade," and the era of European colonialism. Scholars have treated the Atlantic age and European colonialism separately, and most gender historians have focused on the colonial and postcolonial periods. Mbah shows how the Ohafia dual-sex system, in which women enjoyed political and economic autonomy, evolved beginning in the sixteenth century. After 1750, Ohafia men asserted themselves by participating in the Atlantic slave trade and then in post-abolition mercantilism. British colonial rule ended women's socio-political dominance and brought new ways to achieve hegemonic masculinity. Mbah uses "Atlanticization"-the interrelationships between Atlantic trade and gendered socio-cultural transformations that shaped Ohafia and Caribbean planter societies-as an analytical framework. In Biafra, he explores the articulation of transAtlantic economies in the lives of men and women, including slaves. The book reveals how Ohafia and Jamaica, the main destination of slaves from Biafra, were interlinked. Mbah excels in his methodological sophistication and innovative use of sources. He consulted the national archives of Nigeria and the United Kingdom; accessed
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Das Afrika-Lexikon, 2004
Return to Nisa
The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2001
Energy Justice in Global Perspective: An Introduction
Media+Environment
Vom pato zur Wohnstube. Häuslichkeit, männlichkeit, religiöser Raum und alternative Archive im Gh... more Vom pato zur Wohnstube. Häuslichkeit, männlichkeit, religiöser Raum und alternative Archive im Ghana des 20. Jahrhunderts Die Missionare, die vor 150 Jahren im heutigen Südwest-Ghana ankamen, fanden eine Form häuslicher Architektur vor, die weitgehend von Gender-Prinzipien geprägt war. Jeder, der es sich leisten konnte, baute in seinem Gehöft einen auf drei Seiten geschlossenen Plattform (pato), wo er Besucher empfangen konnte. Ebenfalls wichtig war der Raum, in dem die sakralen Hocker der matrilinearen Ahnen aufbewahrt wurden. Mit der Ausbreitung des Christentums im frühen 20. Jahrhundert entstand eine neue Klasse gebildeter Männer, die zwar im Einklang mit den Forderungen der Missionare zusammen mit der Ehefrau und den Kindern in einem Haus wohnten, aber innerhalb davon eine Stube hatten, die einen männlichen Raum darstellte. Sie übernahm sowohl die Funktion des sakralen Hockerraums (sie war mit christlicher Ikonographie geschmückt und diente unter anderem als Gebetsraum) als auch...
Creating an American Island: The Volta Aluminium Company (VALCO) in Ghana, 1964-2000
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Introduction: Gender, Imperialism and Global Exchanges
Miescher/Gender, 2015
Marita, or the Folly of Love: A Novel by A. Native
The International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2003
... In the 1920s, the great nationalist and author JE Casely Hayford married at least one woman a... more ... In the 1920s, the great nationalist and author JE Casely Hayford married at least one woman according to custom.12 -* Western Echo, 24 April 1886: 4. &amp;quot;lb.\ emphasis retained. 2&amp;quot; See MMS, West Africa Synod, Minutes, Gold Coast for 1886-1889. &amp;quot;&amp;quot;See Gocking 1999:55. ...
Hungochani: The history of a dissident sexuality in southern Africa, by Marc Epprecht. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2004. xxvi + 317 pp. 18.95 paperback. ISBN 0-7735-2715-6 (paperback)
African Affairs, 2005
McGill-Queen's University Press 2004 ISBN 0-7735-2750-8 (cloth) ISBN 0-7735-2751-6 (paper) L... more McGill-Queen's University Press 2004 ISBN 0-7735-2750-8 (cloth) ISBN 0-7735-2751-6 (paper) Legal deposit fourth quarter 2004 Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper that is 100% ancient forest free (100% post-consumer recycled), ...
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