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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965549103321

Autore

Matera Marc <1976->

Titolo

The Women's War of 1929 : Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria / / by Marc Matera, Misty L. Bastian, S. Kingsley Kent, Susan Kingsley Kent

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2012

ISBN

9786613360991

9781283360999

1283360993

9780230356061

0230356060

Edizione

[1st ed. 2012.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (293 p.)

Classificazione

HIS015000HIS001000HIS037070HIS054000

Altri autori (Persone)

BastianMisty L. <1955->

KentSusan Kingsley <1952 May 9->

Disciplina

966.9/03

Soggetti

Africa - History

Social history

Great Britain - History

Sex

Imperialism

Military history

African History

Social History

History of Britain and Ireland

Gender Studies

Imperialism and Colonialism

Military History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Chronology of Major Events; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Pre- and Early Colonial Igbo Worlds; Chapter 2 The British View: The Chaotic World of Southeastern Nigeria; Chapter 3 The Twin Traumas of War and Influenza; Chapter 4 The Nwaobiala of



1925; Chapter 5 The Ogu Umunwaanyi; Chapter 6 The British Suppression of the Women's War; Chapter 7 "More Deadly than the Male": The Women's War in the British Imagination; Chapter 8 What the Women Wrought; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame.