Gender, separatist politics, and embodied nationalism in Cameroon / Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoue.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mougoue, Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta, 1983- author.

Series:

African perspectives (University of Michigan. Press)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--Political activity--Cameroon--History--20th century.

Women.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

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.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Acknowledgments

A Note on Terminology

Abbreviations

Introduction. "What the Women of a Nation Are, So Shall the Nation Be": Gendered Nationalism in Cameroon

Chapter 1. Tracing the "Golden Age" of Anglophone Cameroon: Gender, Nationalism, and Political Identity

Chapter 2. Men Must Not "Die Alone in the Task of Nation-Building": Women's Organizations and Nationalist Activities

Chapter 3. "God Will Be Eating Grass": Cooking Anglophone Nationalism

Chapter 4. "Beauty Contest Not Only for Free Girls": Modeling Anglophone Identity

Chapter 5. The Plague of "Gossips and Vindictiveness": Mediating Social Behaviors and Delineating Public and Private Spheres

Chapter 6. "My Husband Stopped Maintaining Me So I Beat Up His Girl": Jealous Housewives, "Women Extremists," and Public Conduct

Chapter 7. "When Women Wear Slacks": "Single-Trouser Nationalism" and Public Space

Conclusion. Takumbeng Unleashed: Women's Continual Collective Mobilization in Anglophone Nationalism

Appendix: Methods and Sources

Notes

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

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OCLC:

1099470462