03999nam 22006614a 450 991109770910332120251116142817.09780253108876025310887X2027/heb04111(CKB)111056485406262(EBL)127647(OCoLC)70739346(SSID)ssj0000085057(PQKBManifestationID)11126461(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085057(PQKBWorkID)10008209(PQKB)11555437(MiAaPQ)EBC127647(Au-PeEL)EBL127647(CaPaEBR)ebr10016678(dli)HEB04111(MiU)MIU01000000000000005410762(EXLCZ)9911105648540626220010612d2002 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrWomen in African colonial histories /Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, editors1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Press20021 online resource (353 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780253215079 0253215072 9780253340474 0253340470 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 influenceWomenHistory.305.4/096Allman Jean Marie858076Geiger Susan667873Musisi Nakanyike688307MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9911097709103321Women in African colonial histories1915798UNINA