Abstract

MENESES, Maria Paula. Insubmissive women? Changes and conflicts in North Mozambic. Ex aequo [online]. 2008, n.17, pp.71-87. ISSN 0874-5560.

This paper seeks to understand why gender relations represent a space of intense and complex interactions, both in colonial and in new, post-independence contexts. Having as a space of analysis the northern coastal area of Mozambique - which represents a «synthesis» of matrilineal and Muslim societies - this text, in the first part, contextualizes, from a historical perspective, how gender identities have been created and negotiated in the region. The second part seeks to analyze the construction of gender identities through the multiple mechanisms of conflict resolution which the population of northern Mozambique uses. This text will emphasize some of the most recurrent conflicts looking for to identify the ideology of gender that is inherent to it.

Keywords : postcolonialism; gender; conflict resolution; Islam; Mozambique.

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