Africa After Gender?

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments A project of this scope comes to fruition only through the collaborative energies of many dedicated individuals and the ¤nancial generosity of institutions. The initial impetus for the book came from a conference entitled “Africa After Gender ? An Exploration of New Epistemologies for Africa Studies,” hosted by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s African Studies Research Focus Group at the University of California,Santa Barbara,in April 2001.Additional conference funding was provided by the University of California Humanities Research Institute in Irvine. Though we have only published here a few of the papers presented at the conference,we are grateful to all those who attended,for their ideas and interest spurred us to pursue the topic further. Support for editing the book was provided by the Academic Senate and the College of Letters and Sciences of UCSB as well as by the Ford Foundation. These institutions enabled the editors to meet in Accra and Santa Barbara. We especially want to thank our¤ne editorial assistants: ¤rst Adrienne MacIain and Teresa Algoso, then Bianca Murillo whose contribution in the ¤nal phase of completing this manuscript allowed two of the editors to travel and pursue their research. Thanks also to two anonymous readers. Dee Mortensen at Indiana University Press expressed an interest in this book early on but also asked the hard questions which helped us develop the ¤nal shape of this collection; Kate Babbitt has been a model copy editor—we are grateful to both of them. Africa After Gender? ...