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Mobilizing Zanzibari Women : The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa / by C. Decker.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Decker, C., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Africa.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- Sociology.
- Africa--History.
- Africa.
- Sex.
- Economic development.
- Education--Philosophy.
- Education.
- African Culture.
- African History.
- Gender Studies.
- Development Studies.
- Philosophy of Education.
- Local Subjects:
- African Culture.
- Sociology.
- African History.
- Gender Studies.
- Development Studies.
- Philosophy of Education.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (260 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2014.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The experiences of African women in the era before independence remain a woefully understudied facet of African history. This innovative and carefully argued study thus adds tremendously to our understanding of colonial history by focusing on women's education, professionalization, and political mobilization in the East African islands of Zanzibar.
- Contents:
- Inducting girls into the regime of respectability
- Training girls for colonial development
- Writing self-reliance in respectability
- Developing agents of mobility
- Mobilizing women during the time of politics.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781349690800
- 1349690805
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