Women and Photography in Africa : Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- List of contributors -- 1 New lines of sight: perspectives on women and photography in Africa -- Part I Writing women into photographic histories -- 2 A working woman's eye: Anne Fischer and the South African photography of Weimar women in exile -- 3 Curating images, performing narratives: women and photography in the Usakos old location -- 4 Women photographers in Angola and Mozambique (1909-1950): a history of an absence -- Part II Photographic dialogues with the past -- 5 'Don't touch': inheriting the Deo Gratias Photo Studio in Ghana - an interview with Kate Tamakloe-Vanderpuije -- 6 Photographic representations of Tunisian women from the late 1940s to the present: a transgenerational palimpsest -- 7 Some collaborative readings of personal and cultural photographs from Southern Africa in the 1980s -- Part III Gender and sexuality in photographic practice -- 8 'We own the night': youth and self-fashioning in Fatoumata Diabaté's Sutigi -- 9 Photographs and memory making: curating Kewpie: Daughter of District Six -- 10 Beyond the frame: Zanele Muholi's queer visual activism -- Part IV Feminist and postcolonial practices -- 11 Affective archives: re-animating family photographs in the works of Lebohang Kganye and Thenjiwe Niki Nkosi -- 12 Visual currencies: performative photography in South African contemporary art -- 13 Héla Ammar's Tarz: an affective and imaginative memory upon dispossession -- Bibliography -- Index.

This collection explores women's multifaceted historical and contemporary involvement in photography in Africa.

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