Women in African colonial histories / Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Allman, Jean Marie.

Geiger, Susan.

Musisi, Nakanyike.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Africa--History.

Women.

Africa--Colonial influence.

Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How did African women negotiate the complex political, economic, and social forces of colonialism in their daily lives? How did they make meaningful lives for themselves in a world that challenged fundamental notions of work, sexuality, marriage, motherhood, and family? By considering the lives of ordinary African women -- farmers, queen mothers, midwives, urban dwellers, migrants, and political leaders -- in the context of particular colonial conditions at specific places and times, Women in African C

Contents:

WOMEN IN AFRICAN COLONIAL HISTORIES; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; WOMEN IN AFRICAN COLONIAL HISTORIES: AN INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 - What My Heart WantedŽ: Gendered Stories of Early Colonial Encounters in Southern Mozambique; Chapter 2 - Dynastic Daughters: Three Royal Kwena Women and E. L. Price of the London Missionary Society, 1853...1881; Chapter 3 - Colonial Midwives and Modernizing Childbirth in French West Africa; Chapter 4 - The Politics of Perception or Perception as Politics? Colonial and Missionary Representations of Baganda Women, 1900...1945

Chapter 5 - The Woman in QuestionŽ: Marriage and Identity in the Colonial Courts of Northern Ghana, 1907...1954Chapter 6 - Colonialism, Education, and Gender Relations in the Belgian Congo: The Évolué Case; Chapter 7 - Virgin Territory? Travel and Migration by African Women in Twentieth-Century Southern Africa; Chapter 8 - When in the White Man's TownŽ: Zimbabwean Women Remember Chibeura; Chapter 9 - Queen Mothers and Good Government in Buganda: The Loss of Women's Political Power in Nineteenth-Century East Africa

Chapter 10 - Marrying and Marriage on a Shifting Terrain: Reconfigurations of Power and Authority in Early Colonial AsanteChapter 11 - Vultures of the MarketplaceŽ: Southeastern Nigerian Women and Discourses of the Ogu Umunwaanyi (Women's War) of 1929; Chapter 12 - Emancipate Your Husbands!Ž Women and Nationalism in Guinea, 1953...1958; Chapter 13 - Guerrilla Girls and Women in the Zimbabwean National Liberation Struggle; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253108876

025310887X

OCLC:

70739346

Publisher Number:

2027/heb04111 hdl