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UNINA9910779827803321 |
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Titolo |
Women in African colonial histories [[electronic resource] /] / Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, editors |
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Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2002 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (353 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AllmanJean Marie |
GeigerSusan |
MusisiNakanyike |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Women - Africa - History |
Africa Colonial influence |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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 |
Chapter 10 - Marrying and Marriage on a Shifting Terrain: Reconfigurations of Power and Authority in Early Colonial AsanteChapter 11 - Vultures of the MarketplaceŽ: Southeastern |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 C |
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