Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa
About the Book Series
Routledge Studies on Gender and Sexuality in Africa publishes high quality, original scholarship from new and established scholars across the world. The series brings together research from across the humanities and social sciences and offers critical, feminist, queer, trans, postcolonial, and intersectional perspectives.
Themes of the series include gender and health, LGBT movements, women’s political participation, sexual and domestic violence, pleasure, power and eroticism, same-sex intimacies, the political economy of sex, equality and media representations of gender
If you are interested in submitting a proposal, please contact Routledge African Studies editor Helena Hurd, [email protected]
Digital Expressions of Gender in Africa
1st Edition
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By Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula
December 08, 2025
This book investigates the ways in which gender is performed in Africa’s digital spaces. Social media and digital platforms provide young Africans with spaces to performatively resist gender conformance and assert bodies in transitions. These spaces allow gender identities to be fluidly made, ...
Gender Research in Africa: Theoretical and Methodological Pathways
1st Edition
By Vivian Ojong, R. Sooryamoorthy
September 30, 2025
This book considers how methodologies, theories and analytical frameworks from gender studies can be applied to African societies’ cultural, social, and historical contexts. The book advocates for the importance of feminist research practices which highlight women and their lived experiences within...
Fifty Years of Family Planning in the Democratic Republic of the Congo: The Dogged Pursuit of Progress
1st Edition
By Jane T. Bertrand
August 29, 2025
This book chronicles five decades of struggle to introduce family planning into one of the largest, most complex countries in sub-Saharan Africa: the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). Interweaving details of major political, social, and economic events into the history of family planning in ...
Young Masculinities and Sexual Health in Southern Africa
1st Edition
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By Deevia Bhana, Morten Skovdal, Kaymarlin Govender
May 19, 2025
This book examines the complex relationships between young masculinities and sexual health within Southern Africa. It considers how socio-cultural and economic factors shape young men’s experiences of masculinity and the effects on relationship dynamics, gender norms and sexual health. Through ...
African Women in the Fourth Industrial Revolution: Change, Policies, and Approaches
1st Edition
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By Tinuade Adekunbi Ojo, Bhaso Ndzendze
December 02, 2024
This book investigates how women in Africa are being impacted by the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which describes the twenty-first-century proliferation of mobile internet, machine learning and artificial intelligence. The move towards digitalization brings fundamental changes in the way people ...
COVID-19 and Gender-Based Violence in Zimbabwe: Women's Pandemic Experiences and Lessons for the Future
1st Edition
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By Isaiah Munyiswa, Pauline Mateveke, Ezra Chitando
December 02, 2024
This book investigates the experiences of women in Zimbabwe facing COVID-19 and gender-based violence, arguing that the insights from this extremely tough period could be used as a springboard for positive legal, cultural and policy changes. In 2020, COVID-19 caught the world by surprise, and...
Gendered Spaces, Religion and Migration in Zimbabwe: Implications for Economic Development
1st Edition
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By Ezra Chitando, Sophia Chirongoma, Molly Manyonganise
August 26, 2024
This book explores the intersections of gender, religion and migration within the context of post-independent Zimbabwe, with a specific focus on how gender disparities impact economic development. By demonstrating how these interconnections impact women’s and girls’ lived realities, the book ...
Girls Negotiating Porn in South Africa: Power, Play and Sexuality
1st Edition
By Deevia Bhana
August 26, 2024
The book investigates how teenage girls in South Africa encounter and consume pornography, situating their experiences within wider sociocultural and affective relations of power. It focuses on girls’ online playful and pleasurable pursuits as they explore and expand upon their sexual curiosities....
Gender-Inclusive Higher Education in Tanzania: Transforming Academia
1st Edition
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By Susan P. Murphy, Perpetua John Urio
August 02, 2024
Whilst there is an extensive body of research exploring the barriers to gender equality and female empowerment in high-income states, there are far fewer systematic analyses within lower-income settings. This book draws on extensive empirical data to analyse gender mainstreaming and gender ...
Gender, Conflict and Reintegration in Uganda: Abducted Girls, Returning Women
1st Edition
By Allen Kiconco
May 31, 2023
This book explores what happened when the tens of thousands of girls (now women) abducted by Lord’s Resistance Army and inducted into their campaign of violence against the Ugandan government, returned home. Drawing on extensive original research, the author considers the challenges which the ...
The Politics of Biography in Africa: Borders, Margins, and Alternative Histories of Power
1st Edition
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By Anaïs Angelo
May 31, 2023
Bringing together historians, political scientists, and literary analysts, this volume shows how biographical narratives can shed light on alternative, little known or under-researched aspects of state power in African politics. Part 1 shows how biographical narratives breathe new life into ...
Women and Peacebuilding in Africa
1st Edition
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By Anna Chitando
May 31, 2023
This volume re-centres African women scholars in the discourse on African women and peacebuilding, combining theoretical reflections with case studies in a range of African countries. The chapters outline the history of African women’s engagement in peacebuilding, introducing new and neglected ...