LEADER 03735nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910792132503321 005 20230802210054.0 010 $a0-299-13023-1 024 7 $a2027/heb04124 035 $a(CKB)2660000000000325 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000333282 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11248457 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000333282 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10355104 035 $a(PQKB)11005365 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3445113 035 $a(OCoLC)669520311 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse12082 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3445113 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10417075 035 $a(dli)HEB04124 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000006961136 035 $a(EXLCZ)992660000000000325 100 $a19910329h19911991 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 00$aHausa women in the twentieth century /$fedited by Catherine Coles and Beverly Mack 210 1$aMadison, Wis. :$cUniversity of Wisconsin Press,$d1991. 210 4$aŠ1991 215 $a1 online resource (xi, 297 pages) $cillustrations, map 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-299-13020-7 311 0 $a0-299-13024-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $apt. 1. Hausa women in Islam -- pt. 2. The power of women -- pt. 3. Women in the changing economy -- pt. 4. Women's voices : feminine gender in ritual, the arts, and media. 330 $aThe Hausa are one of the largest ethnic groups in Africa, with populations in Nigeria, Niger, and Ghana. Their long history of city-states and Islamic caliphates, their complex trading economies, and their cultural traditions have attracted the attention of historians, political economists, linguists, and anthropologists. The large body of scholarship on Hausa society, however, has assumed the subordination of women to men. Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century refutes the notion that Hausa women are pawns in a patriarchal Muslim society. The contributors, all of whom have done field research in Hausaland, explore the ways Hausa women have balanced the demands of Islamic expectations and Western choices as their society moved from a precolonial system through British colonial administration to inclusion in the modern Nigerian nation. This volume examines the roles of a wide variety of women, from wives and workers to political activists and mythical figures, and it emphasizes that women have been educators and spiritual leaders in Hausa society since precolonial times. From royalty to slaves and concubines, in traditional Hausa cities and in newer towns, from the urban poor to the newly educated elite, the "invisible women" whose lives are documented here demonstrate that standard accounts of Hausa society must be revised. Scholars of Hausa and neighboring West African societies will find in this collection a wealth of new material and a model of how research on women can be integrated with general accounts of Hausa social, religious, political, and economic life. For students and scholars looking at gender and women's roles cross-culturally, this volume provides an invaluable African perspective.--Publisher description 606 $aWomen, Hausa 606 $aMuslim women 615 0$aWomen, Hausa. 615 0$aMuslim women. 676 $a305.48/8937 701 $aColes$b Catherine M$01579848 701 $aMack$b Beverly B$g(Beverly Blow),$f1952-$0667876 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910792132503321 996 $aHausa women in the twentieth century$93860230 997 $aUNINA