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The Women's War of 1929 : gender and violence in colonial Nigeria / Marc Matera, Misty L. Bastian, Susan Kingsley Kent.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Matera, Marc, 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women's Revolt, Nigeria, 1929.
- Women political activists.
- Government, Resistance to.
- Nigeria--History--1900-1960.
- Nigeria.
- History.
- Nigeria--Politics and government--To 1960.
- Politics and government.
- Government, Resistance to--Nigeria.
- Women political activists--Nigeria.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiii, 278 pages) : illustrations, map
- Place of Publication:
- Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire, [publisher not identified], 2012.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- In late 1929, a remarkable series of demonstrations, protests, risings, and riots involving tens of thousands of Igbo and I bi bio-speaking women took place throughout southeastern Nigeria. In the course of what its perpetrators called the Women's War, more than fifty Igbo and Ibibio women were killed by British troops and an unknown number were wounded and otherwise traumatized. The Women's War marked a historical high point in West African resistance to colonialism, making an indelible impression on all who witnessed it, Britons and Africans alike. African scholars differ in their interpretations of the Women's War, while others simply dismissed the British actions as yet another instance of the violence that Has attended colonialism since the Spanish first set foot in the Americas. They were that, to be sure, but a fuller understanding of how the 'tensions of empire' played out requires the historicization of colonial violence. This look brings together for; the first time both sets of actors, analyzing their behaviors from the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants, and examining the various actions of the main protagonists within in single, gendered analytical frame. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Pre- and early colonial Igbo worlds
- The British view: the chaotic world of southeastern Nigeria
- The twin traumas of war and influenza
- The Nwaobiala of 1925
- The Ogu Umunwaanyi
- The British suppression of the Women's War
- "More deadly than the male": the Women's War in the British imagination
- What the women wrought.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-271) and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780230356061
- 0230356060
- Publisher Number:
- 99986797094
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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