LEADER 02761nam 2200565Ia 450 001 9910822494803321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9956-728-18-7 010 $a9956-728-55-1 035 $a(CKB)2670000000343272 035 $a(EBL)1164430 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000938529 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11514750 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000938529 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10921685 035 $a(PQKB)11317327 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1164430 035 $a(OCoLC)834608015 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27009 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1164430 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10677897 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL499232 035 $a(PPN)254803571 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000343272 100 $a20130413d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aPetitioning for our rights, fighting for our nation $ethe history of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women, 1949-1960 /$fMeredith Terretta 210 $aOxford $cLangaa RPCIG$d2013 215 $a1 online resource (170 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a9956-728-05-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 145-157). 327 $aPreface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Cameroonian Women and the Writing of Popular Nationalism -- Ruben Um Nyobe and the Multi-Layered Origins of the UPC and UDEFEC -- UDEFEC's Political Awakening -- The Official Ban of the Nationalist Movement, and Reorganization in the Maquis -- City to Village: The Rejection of the Colonial Curse -- Conclusion : Towards a Nation of Outsiders -- Bibliography. 330 $aThousands of Cameroonian women played an essential role in the radically anti-colonial nationalist movement led by the Union of the Populations of Cameroon (UPC): they were the women of the Democratic Union of Cameroonian Women (UDEFEC). Drawing on women nationalistsi? petitions to the United Nations, one of the largest collections of political documents written by African women during the decolonization era, as well as archival research and oral interviews, this work shows how UDEFEC transcended ethnic, class, education and social divides, and popularized nationalism in both urban and rural 606 $aCameroon$xPolitics and government 606 $aWomen$xPolitical activity 615 0$aCameroon$xPolitics and government. 615 0$aWomen$xPolitical activity. 700 $aTerretta$b Meredith$01663017 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910822494803321 996 $aPetitioning for our rights, fighting for our nation$94074745 997 $aUNINA