Download or read book Gendered Encounters written by Maria Grosz-Ngate and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book makes a significant contribution to contemporary debates on "globalization," culture and gender. Focusing on intersections of the local and the global in Africa, contributors elucidate how translocal and transnational cultural currents are mediated by gender, how they reshape gender constructs and relations, and how they both manifest and impinge on relations of power.