Gendering ethnicity in African women's lives / edited by Jan Bender Shetler.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shetler, Jan Bender, editor.

Series:

Women in Africa and the diaspora

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History.

Women.

Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Social conditions.

Ethnicity.

History.

Sub-Saharan Africa.

Social conditions.

Ethnicity--Africa, Sub-Saharan.

Women--Social conditions.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

ix, 335 pages ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015]

Contents:

Introduction: Women's alternative practices of ethnicity in Africa / Jan Bender Shetler

Part One. Forming interethnic alliances. Gendering the history of social memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania, as an antidote to "tribal" history / Jan Bender Shetler

Living ethnicity: gender, livelihood, and ethnic identity in Mozambique / Heidi Gengenbach

Part Two. Constructing new forms of identity. Re-reading the 1835 "Fingo Emancipation": women and ethnicity in the colonial archive / Poppy Fry

New African marriage and panethnic politics in segregationist South Africa / Meghan Healy-Clancy

Women and non-ethnic politics in East Africa, 1934-1947 / Ethan R. Sanders

Part Three. Promoting gendered domains of ethnicity. Gender and the limits of "Ndebeleness, " 1910-1960s: Abezansi churchwomen's domestic and associational alliances / Wendy Urban-Mead

"Women were not supposed to fight": the gendered uses of martial and moral Zuluness during uDlame, 1990-1994 / Jill E. Kelly

Sorting and suffering: social classification in post-genocide Rwanda / Jennie E. Burnet

Part Four. Performing gendered ethnic power. Matriliny, masculinity, and contested gendered definitions of ethnic identity and power in nineteenth-century southeastern Nigeria / Ndubueze L. Mbah

Shaming men, performing power: female authority in Zimbabwe and Tanzania on the eve of colonial rule / Heike I. Schmidt

Muslim women legislators in postcolonial Kenya: between gender, ethnicity, and religion / Ousseina D. Alidou

Afterword: Reflections on gender, ethnicity, and power / Dorothy L. Hodgson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780299303945

0299303942

OCLC:

889941219