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Preface.
THIS ISSUE OF Feminist Studies explores constructions of gender and sexuality evident in the negotiation of life in regions as far apart as South Korea, the Appalachian United States, Nigeria, Spain, and France. The articles examine the crafting of gender--and especially masculinity--through the shifting relationships between "tradition" and "modernity" in the twentieth century. These constructions, the articles and creative pieces argue, are not monolithic or uniform, but are complexly articulated through local configurations of identity and practice. Rebecca R. Scott illustrates, through support for an environmentally destructive form of coal mining in a small ...
- The Honorable Ibrahim Turaki, Governor of the Jigawa State of Northern Nigeria,...
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...Jigawa State of Northern Nigeria issued a statement...attacks on the United States of America...attacks on the United States, they were...in much of Northern Nigeria. It was the...compassion of the United States knows no boundaries...
- UNITED STATES AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION SIGNS A GRANT TO SUPPORT...
- News wire article from: US Fed News Service, Including US State News July 3, 2009 700+ words
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- Colonialism and the economic demise and transformation of northern Nigeria's...
- Journal of Asian and African Studies Ferdnance, Tyrone August 1, 1998 700+ words
...that radically transformed Northern Nigeria's social formation. These included the military conquest of Northern Nigeria (the Sokoto Caliphate and...the slave class process in Northern Nigeria. The slave class process is...
- Muslim women traders of northern Nigeria: perspectives from the city of Yola.
- Magazine article from: Ethnology VerEecke, Catherine June 22, 1993 700+ words
...available for non-Hausa women in northern Nigeria, who constitute a sizeable percentage...study of Muslim women's trade in northern Nigeria, based on a review of the available...development plans. THE REGION: NORTHERN NIGERIA Popularly known as the Muslim North...
- The search for security in Muslim Northern Nigeria.
- Magazine article from: Africa Last, Murray January 1, 2008 700+ words
...physical and spiritual, in today's northern Nigeria. It is an anxiety partly millenarian...current varieties of vigilantism in northern Nigeria are products of a wider, older set...among those in the urban centres of northern Nigeria; there is a pervasive anxiety over...
- Shifting the imbalance: the impact of structural adjustment on rural-urban...
- Journal of Asian and African Studies Meagher, Kate June 1, 1997 700+ words
...history of rural-urban migration in northern Nigeria. This is followed by an analysis...recent fieldwork in various parts of northern Nigeria is then drawn together to suggest...History of Rural-Urban Migration in Northern Nigeria Northern Nigeria stretches from the...
- More than being housewives: images and roles of women in folk music and its...
- Magazine article from: Ethnologies Haruna, Zainab K. January 1, 2000 700+ words
Custom and social convention in northern Nigeria limit women's freedom of speech...of freedom. During my fieldwork in northern Nigeria over the past ten years, I noted...information. As a woman born and bred in northern Nigeria, who speaks some northern Nigerian...
- Identity, performance, and secrecy: gendered life and the "modern" in northern...
- Magazine article from: Feminist Studies Pierce, Steven September 22, 2007 700+ words
...REIMPOSITION OF Islamic criminal law in northern Nigeria has forcefully brought gender issues...stereotypical picture of gender relations in northern Nigeria--a normative description that some...least can be gracefully ignored. NORTHERN NIGERIA Popular coverage (and not a little...