LEADER 03845nam 22005894a 450 001 9910455038903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-253-10887-X 035 $a(CKB)111056485406262 035 $a(EBL)127647 035 $a(OCoLC)70739346 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000085057 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11126461 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000085057 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10008209 035 $a(PQKB)11555437 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC127647 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL127647 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10016678 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056485406262 100 $a20010612d2002 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aWomen in African colonial histories$b[electronic resource] /$fJean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, editors 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$d2002 215 $a1 online resource (353 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-21507-2 311 $a0-253-34047-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aWOMEN IN AFRICAN COLONIAL HISTORIES; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; WOMEN IN AFRICAN COLONIAL HISTORIES: AN INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 - What My Heart WantedZ?: 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 327 $aChapter 5 - The Woman in QuestionZ?: Marriage and Identity in the Colonial Courts of Northern Ghana, 1907...1954Chapter 6 - Colonialism, Education, and Gender Relations in the Belgian Congo: The E?volue? Case; Chapter 7 - Virgin Territory? Travel and Migration by African Women in Twentieth-Century Southern Africa; Chapter 8 - When in the White Man's TownZ?: 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 327 $aChapter 10 - Marrying and Marriage on a Shifting Terrain: Reconfigurations of Power and Authority in Early Colonial AsanteChapter 11 - Vultures of the MarketplaceZ?: Southeastern Nigerian Women and Discourses of the Ogu Umunwaanyi (Women's War) of 1929; Chapter 12 - Emancipate Your Husbands!Z? Women and Nationalism in Guinea, 1953...1958; Chapter 13 - Guerrilla Girls and Women in the Zimbabwean National Liberation Struggle; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX 330 $aHow 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 606 $aWomen$zAfrica$xHistory 607 $aAfrica$xColonial influence 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aWomen$xHistory. 676 $a305.4/096 701 $aAllman$b Jean Marie$0858076 701 $aGeiger$b Susan$0667873 701 $aMusisi$b Nakanyike$0688307 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910455038903321 996 $aWomen in African colonial histories$91915798 997 $aUNINA