Names Fashioned by Gender

ISBN-13: 9781032628196 / Twarda / 2023 / 370 str.

Opis

Names Fashioned by Gender is a collection of essays on onomastics—a linguistics field of study focusing on the origin, form, history and use of proper names in African societies. 

Spis treści

Acknowledgements

Foreword

Preface

Introduction: Towards developing feminist onomastics scholarship

Thenjiwe Meyiwa and Madoda Cekiso

Chapter 1: Assessing the origin and perceptions of gendered Yoruba names

Temitope O. Adekunle

Chapter 2: Gendered personal names in Yoruba and Chichewa

Alfred Jana Matiki and Modupe M. Alimi

Chapter 3: Setswana naming system: a gendered outlook

Goabilwe N. Ramaeba and Joyce T. Mathangwane

Chapter 4: Gender stereotypes embedded in the labels of female subjects in a cross section of Zimbabwean music

Duren Jhamba

Chapter 5: Child naming and gender transformation in Gutu, Zimbabwe

Christopher Rwodzi

Chapter 6: Beyond the name: Maniangas tribe ways of naming

Luvisa Bibiche Bazola

Chapter 7: Subculture socio-cultural nicknaming phenomena embedded in izindlavini of amaMpondo of the Eastern Cape

Thenjiwe Meyiwa and Madoda Cekiso

Chapter 8: Re-considering the idiom ‘If God is male, then the male is God’ in light of selected Shona personal names among Reformed Church in Zimbabwe Christians in Chivi, Zimbabwe

Excellent Chireshe

Chapter 9: Gender in the personal naming practices of the Shona in Zimbabwe: a socio-onomastic study

Zvinashe Mamvura and Margret Chipara

Chapter 10: Xhosa female initiates’ (intonjane) perceptions of meanings and values attached to their new names

Khanyisile Rose Masha and Ilse du Toit

Chapter 11: ‘Get this straight, that is (not) my name’, retorts a Xhosa woman

Nolutho Diko

Chapter 12: ‘Hold the roof woman’: exploring how the naming practices amongst isiXhosa speaking people contribute to a high divorce rate in South Africa

Nosisi Feza

Chapter 13: A feminist approach to the naming and circumstances of women in the Bible in relation to the naming of prominent Zulu women

Nobuhle Ndimande-Hlongwa and Thandi Mwelase

Chapter 14: An examination of names and gender in Ngugi’s Devil on the cross and I will marry when I want

Cheela Chilala

Chapter 15: Gender shift in the use of the formative -no- in Zulu given names

Adrian Koopman

Chapter 16: Fluid identities: naming and recognition in NoViolet Bulawayo’s We need new names and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah

Ken Junior Lipenga

Chapter 17: Queer(ing) onomastics: names and the construction of non-normative genders and sexualities in selected short stories in Queer Africa: New and collected fiction

Gibson Ncube

Chapter 18: A feminist interrogation of Owé gendered naming practices Josephine Olufunmilayo Alexander

Chapter 19: The gendered nature of naming children among the Shona in Zimbabwe

Vimbai Matiza-Mtombeni

Chapter 20: Names of council beer halls and shebeens in Bulawayo: A feminist analysis

Liketso Dube and Sambulo Ndlovu

Chapter 21: Anti-women nomenclature: a selection of Zimbabwean ergonyms in family businesses

Sambulo Ndlovu

Chapter 22: Interrogating the female politicians selected motherhood and wifehood label in the Zimbabwean print media: The case of the Financial Gazette 2002

Mandiedza Parichi

Chapter 23: Rethinking the framing of women in the nation through ‘self-naming’ and ‘self-definition’ of female nationalists in Zimbabwe

Phillip Mpofu and Charles Tembo

Chapter 24: Naming female characters to achieve a colonial agenda (‘de-womanisation’ of African womanhood): The case of Zvarevashe’s novel Kurauone

Tyanai Charamba

O autorze

Thenjiwe Meyiwa, a feminist scholar, is the lead editor of this book. She is Deputy Vice-chancellor for Research, Innovation, Commercialisation and Postgraduate Studies at Unisa. She is a member of various parastatals, community and civil society organisations, such as the Rural Women’s Movement where she is the Advisory Board member; the South African National Heraldry Council where she serves as its Chairperson and a Deputy Chair of the National Heritage Council; to name but a few. She has authored several research gender studies articles, including co-publishing five books.

Madoda Cekiso, the co-editor of this book, is senior professor at Tshwane University of Technology’s Department of English. He has published widely in the field of reading and writing with a significant number of his recent research projects and publications focusing on the gender analysis within this subject field.