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Gender, separatist politics, and embodied nationalism in Cameroon / Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougou.
LIBRA HQ1236.5.C17 M68 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mougoué, Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta, 1983- author.
- Series:
- African perspectives (University of Michigan. Press)
- African perspectives
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Political activity--Cameroon--History--20th century.
- Women.
- Women--Cameroon--History--20th century.
- Women--Identity.
- Nationalism--Cameroon--History--20th century.
- Nationalism.
- Politics and government.
- History.
- Women--Political activity.
- Cameroon--Politics and government--20th century.
- Cameroon.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 330 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- "Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon, a west-central African country. Drawing upon history, political science, gender studies, and feminist epistemologies, the book examines how formally educated women sought to protect the cultural values and the self-determination of the Anglophone Cameroonian state as Francophone Cameroon prepared to dismantle the federal republic. The book defines and uses the concept of embodied nationalism to illustrate the political importance of women's everyday behavior--the clothes they wore, the foods they cooked, whether they gossiped, and their deference to their husbands--in the project of demonstrating that West Cameroon, which comprised of English-Speaking regions, was a progressive and autonomous nation. Its sources include oral interviews and archival sources such as women's newspaper advice columns, Cameroon's first cooking book, and the first novel published by an Anglophone Cameroonian woman"-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Mougoué, Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta, 1983- author. Gender, separatist politics, and embodied nationalism in Cameroon
- ISBN:
- 9780472074136
- 047207413X
- 9780472054138
- 0472054139
- OCLC:
- 1045654910
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