Chimakonam / du Toit African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women

1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-351-12008-1
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge African Studies

This book examines the underexplored notion of epistemic marginalisation of women by philosophy in the African intellectual place. Women's issues are still very much neglected by governments, corporate bodies and academics in the sub-Saharan Africa. The entrenched traditional world-views which privilege men over women make it difficult for the modern day challenges posed by the neglect of the feminine epistemic perspective to become obvious.

Contributors address these issues from both theoretical and practical perspectives, demonstrating what philosophy could do to ameliorate the epistemic marginalization of women, as well as ways in which African philosphy exacerbates the marginalization. Philosophy is supposed to teach us how to lead the good life in all ramifications, why is it failing in this duty in Africa where the issue of women’s epistemic vision is concerned? The chapters raises feminist agitations to a new level; beginning from the regular campaigns on various women’s rights and reaching a climax in an epistemic struggle in which the knowledge-controlling power to create, acquire, evaluate, regulate and disseminate is hoisted as the last frontier of feminism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Chimakonam, Jonathan O.

Chimakonam, Jonathan

du Toit, Louise

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements

Dedication

Preface

Introduction



- Addressing the Epistemic Marginalization of Women in African Philosophy and Building a Culture of Conversations

Dr. Jonathan O. Chimakonam (University of Calabar, Nigeria and University of Pretoria, South Africa)

- Henry Odera Oruka and the Female Sage: Re-evaluating the Nature of Sagacity

Dr. Pius Mosima (BIRD, University of Bamenda, Cameroon)

- Women and Ubuntu: Does Ubuntu Condone the Subordination of Women?

Dr. Rianna Oelofsen (University of Fort Hare, South Africa)

- African Philosophy, its Questions, the Place and the Role of Women and its Disconnect with its World

Dr. Olajumoke Akiode (University of Lagos, Nigeria)

- Dialogues and Alliances: Positions of Women in African Philosophy

Drs. Renate Schepen (University of Humanistic Studies Utrecht/VU Amsterdam, Netherlands)

- Dealing with the Trauma of a Loss: Interrogating the Feminine Experience of Coping with Spouse’s Death in African Traditions

Dr. Elvis Imafidon (Ambrose Alli University, Ekpoma, Nigeria)

- Human Rights Discourse: Friend or Foe of African Women’s Sexual Freedoms?

Prof. Louise du Toit (University of Stellenbosch, South Africa)

- African Philosophy’s Injustice against Women

Prof. Bernard Matolino (University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa)

- Conceptual Decolonization in African Philosophy: The Women Perspective

Prof. Oladele Balogun (Olabisi Onabanjo University, Nigeria)

- Women in the history of African Philosophy and the Imperative of ‘Her-Storical’ Perspective in the Contemporary African Philosophy

Dr. Mesembe I. Edet (University of Calabar, Nigeria)

- Buffeted: Developing an Afro Feminist Response to Environmental Questions

Dr. Betty Wambui (State University of New York, Oneonta)

- Ecofeminism in Africa: The Contribution of Wangari Maathai

Dr. Anke Graness (University of Vienna)

- Women in the Kitchen of Philosophy: Re-Asking the Questions of African Philosophy

Dr. Egbai Uti Ojah, (University of Calabar, Nigeria)

- Are Women Marginalized in African Philosophy?

Prof. Uduma Oji Uduma (Ebonyi State University Abakaliki, Nigeria)

Über Autor(innen)

Jonathan O. Chimakonam Ph.D, is a senior lecturer at the University of Calabar, Nigeria.

Louise du Toit Ph.D, is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Stellenbosch University, South Africa.