Explore the ways Christianity and colonialism acted as hegemonic or counter hegemonic forces in the making of African societies. This volume addresses issues such as: missionary collaboration with the colonizing effort of European powers; disagreements between missionaries and colonizing agents; and more.

The authors collected in Gendering Global Transformations: Gender, Culture, Race, and Identity probe the effects of global and local forces in reshaping notions of gender, race, class, identity, human rights, and community across Africa and its Diaspora. The essays in this unique collection employ diverse interdisciplinary approaches--drawing from subjects such as history, sociology, religion, anthropology, gender studies, feminist studies--in an effort to centralize gender as a category of analysis in developing critical perspectives in a globalizing world. From this approach come a host of...