ISBN:
0253215072
,
0253340470
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 338 p)
,
ill
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2005 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Print version Women in African Colonial Histories
DDC:
305.4/096
Keywords:
Women History
;
Africa ; Colonial influence
;
Women ; Africa ; History
;
Electronic books
;
Africa Colonial influence
;
Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
How did African women negotiate the complex political, economic, and social forces of colonialism in their daily lives? How did they make meaningful lives for themselves in a world that challenged fundamental notions of work, sexuality, marriage, motherhood, and family? By considering the lives of ordinary African women -- farmers, queen mothers, midwives, urban dwellers, migrants, and political leaders -- in the context of particular colonial conditions at specific places and times, Women in African Colo
Description / Table of Contents:
WOMEN IN AFRICAN COLONIAL HISTORIES; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; WOMEN IN AFRICAN COLONIAL HISTORIES: AN INTRODUCTION ; Chapter 1 - What My Heart WantedŽ: Gendered Stories of Early Colonial Encounters in Southern Mozambique ; Chapter 2 - Dynastic Daughters: Three Royal Kwena Women and E. L. Price of the London Missionary Society, 1853…1881 ; Chapter 3 - Colonial Midwives and Modernizing Childbirth in French West Africa; Chapter 4 - The Politics of Perception or Perception as Politics? Colonial and Missionary Representations of Baganda Women, 1900…1945
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 5 - The Woman in QuestionŽ: Marriage and Identity in the Colonial Courts of Northern Ghana, 1907…1954Chapter 6 - Colonialism, Education, and Gender Relations in the Belgian Congo: The Évolué Case; Chapter 7 - Virgin Territory? Travel and Migration by African Women in Twentieth-Century Southern Africa; Chapter 8 - When in the White Man's TownŽ: Zimbabwean Women Remember Chibeura; Chapter 9 - Queen Mothers and Good Government in Buganda: The Loss of Women's Political Power in Nineteenth-Century East Africa
Description / Table of Contents:
Chapter 10 - Marrying and Marriage on a Shifting Terrain: Reconfigurations of Power and Authority in Early Colonial AsanteChapter 11 - Vultures of the MarketplaceŽ: Southeastern Nigerian Women and Discourses of the Ogu Umunwaanyi (Women's War) of 1929; Chapter 12 - Emancipate Your Husbands!Ž Women and Nationalism in Guinea, 1953…1958; Chapter 13 - Guerrilla Girls and Women in the Zimbabwean National Liberation Struggle; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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