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The Women's War of 1929 : gender and violence in colonial Nigeria / / Marc Matera, Misty L. Bastian, Susan Kingsley Kent



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Autore: Matera Marc <1976-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: The Women's War of 1929 : gender and violence in colonial Nigeria / / Marc Matera, Misty L. Bastian, Susan Kingsley Kent Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012
Edizione: 1st ed. 2012.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (293 p.)
Disciplina: 966.9/03
Soggetto topico: Women's Revolt, Nigeria, 1929
Government, Resistance to - Nigeria
Women political activists - Nigeria
Soggetto geografico: Nigeria History 1900-1960
Nigeria Politics and government To 1960
Classificazione: HIS015000HIS001000HIS037070HIS054000
Altri autori: BastianMisty L. <1955->  
KentSusan Kingsley <1952 May 9->  
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Chronology of Major Events; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1 Pre- and Early Colonial Igbo Worlds; Chapter 2 The British View: The Chaotic World of Southeastern Nigeria; Chapter 3 The Twin Traumas of War and Influenza; Chapter 4 The Nwaobiala of 1925; Chapter 5 The Ogu Umunwaanyi; Chapter 6 The British Suppression of the Women's War; Chapter 7 "More Deadly than the Male": The Women's War in the British Imagination; Chapter 8 What the Women Wrought; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index
Sommario/riassunto: In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame.
Titolo autorizzato: The Women's War of 1929  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-283-36099-3
9786613360991
0-230-35606-0
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910812946703321
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