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

Mougoué, Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta, 1983- [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2019]

xii, 330 Seiten : Illustrationen

Englisch

Introduction "What the women of a nation are, so shall the nation be" : gendered nationalism in Cameroon

Tracing the "golden age" of anglophone Cameroon : gender, nationalism, and political identity

Men must not "die alone in the task of nation-building" : women's organizations and nationalist activities

"God will be eating grass" : cooking anglophone nationalism

"Beauty contest not only for free girls" : modeling anglophone identity

The plague of "gossips and vindictiveness" : mediating social behaviors and delineating public and private spheres

"My husband stopped maintaining me so I beat up his girl" : jealous housewives, "women extremists," and public conduct

"When women wear slacks" : "single-trouser nationalism" and public space

Conclusion Takumbeng Unleashed : women's continual collective mobilization in anglophone nationalism

Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 301-321

978-0-472-07413-6 (hardback); 978-0-472-05413-8 (paper)

978-0-472-12524-1 (ISBN der parallelen Ausgabe im Fernzugriff)

2019019139

OCoLC: 1130268509     

LB 44529      Ähnliche Literatur

HQ1236.5.C17

305.4096711/0904

FIV Notation: RF02.04: Afrika südlich der Sahara / Zentralafrika / Kamerun ; SG02.02: Gesellschaft / Gesellschaftsentwicklung/Gesellschaftsstruktur / Gesellschaftliche Gruppen ; SF08: Staat / Regionen/Kommunen

GND-Schlagwörter: Kamerun ; Frau ; Politisches Verhalten ; Sozialverhalten ; Nationalismus ; Separatismus ; Geschichte

FIV-Themen: Kamerun ; Kamerun (Süd) ; Frauen ; Politisch-gesellschaftliches Verhalten ; Nationalismus ; Separatismus ; Kollektive Identität ; Geschichte

FIV-Aspekte: Frauenorganisation ; Gesellschaftliche/Politische Bewegung

LOC-SH: Women -- Political activity -- Cameroon -- History -- 20th century ; Women -- Cameroon -- History -- 20th century ; Women -- Identity ; Nationalism -- Cameroon -- History -- 20th century ; Cameroon -- Politics and government -- 20th century

"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"-- Back cover