ISBN:
9780472074136
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9780472054138
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 330 Seiten
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Illustrationen
Series Statement:
African perspectives
DDC:
305.4096711/0904
Keywords:
Women Political activity 20th century
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History
;
Women History 20th century
;
Women Identity
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Nationalism History 20th century
;
Frau
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Politisches Verhalten
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Sozialverhalten
;
Nationalismus
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Separatismus
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Geschichte
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Cameroon Politics and government 20th century
;
Kamerun
Abstract:
"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
Note:
Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 301-321
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Introduction "What the women of a nation are, so shall the nation be" : gendered nationalism in Cameroon
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Tracing the "golden age" of anglophone Cameroon : gender, nationalism, and political identity
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Men must not "die alone in the task of nation-building" : women's organizations and nationalist activities
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"God will be eating grass" : cooking anglophone nationalism
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"Beauty contest not only for free girls" : modeling anglophone identity
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The plague of "gossips and vindictiveness" : mediating social behaviors and delineating public and private spheres
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"My husband stopped maintaining me so I beat up his girl" : jealous housewives, "women extremists," and public conduct
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"When women wear slacks" : "single-trouser nationalism" and public space
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Conclusion Takumbeng Unleashed : women's continual collective mobilization in anglophone nationalism
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