03845nam 22005894a 450 991045503890332120200520144314.00-253-10887-X(CKB)111056485406262(EBL)127647(OCoLC)70739346(SSID)ssj0000085057(PQKBManifestationID)11126461(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085057(PQKBWorkID)10008209(PQKB)11555437(MiAaPQ)EBC127647(Au-PeEL)EBL127647(CaPaEBR)ebr10016678(EXLCZ)9911105648540626220010612d2002 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWomen in African colonial histories[electronic resource] /Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, editorsBloomington Indiana University Press20021 online resource (353 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-21507-2 0-253-34047-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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...1945Chapter 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 AfricaChapter 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; INDEXHow 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 CWomenAfricaHistoryAfricaColonial influenceElectronic books.WomenHistory.305.4/096Allman Jean Marie858076Geiger Susan667873Musisi Nakanyike688307MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910455038903321Women in African colonial histories1915798UNINA