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Issue 21. 2016: The Politics of Fashion and Beauty in Africa - view entire journal
Preliminary Pages
Editorial: The Politics of Fashion and Beauty in Africa – by Simidele Dosekun
Features
African Women Do Not Look Good in Wigs: Gender, Beauty Rituals and Cultural Identity in Anglophone Cameroon, 1961-1972 – by Jacqueline-Bethel Mougoué
Contesting Beauty: Black Lesbians on the Stage – by Zethu Matebeni
“These Girls’ Fashion is Sick!”: An African City and the Geography of Sartorial Worldliness – by Grace Adeniyi Ogunyankin
Skimpy Fashion and Sexuality in Sheebah Karungi’s Performances – by Evelyn Lutwama-Rukundo
Standpoints
The weave as an ‘unhappy’ technology of black femininity – by Simidele Dosekun
Dreadlocks as a Symbol of Resistance: Performance and Reflexivity – by Tendai Mutukwa
In Conversation
Doing Beauty as African Feminists: A Conversation between Aleya Kassam, Fatma Emam, Valérie Bah and Yewande Omotoso
Profiles
Profile: ‘Keep Your Eyes off My Thighs’: A Feminist Analysis of Uganda’s ‘Miniskirt Law’ – by Sylvia Tamale
Reviews
Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style, and the Global Politics of Soul. By Tanisha C. Ford. Durham: University of North Carolina Press, 2015 – by Kabura Nganga
Regarding Muslims: From Slavery to Postapartheid. By Gabeba Baderoon. Johannesburg: Wits University Press, 2014. – by Sa’diyya Shaikh
The Remaking of Social Contracts: Feminists in a Fierce New World. Edited by Gita Sen and Marina Durano for DAWN. London: Zed Books, 2014 – by Sehin Teferra
Tribute
Tribute: Hajiya Bilkisu Yusuf and Her ‘Jihad’ of the Heart (December 1952–September 2015) – by Maryam Uwais MFR
Contributors
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