Women in African colonial histories / / Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, editors

• Pubblicazione: Bloomington, : Indiana University Press, 2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.4/096
• Soggetto topico: Women - Africa - History
• Soggetto geografico: Africa Colonial influence
• Altri autori: AllmanJean Marie GeigerSusan MusisiNakanyike
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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...1945 ; Chapter 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 Africa ; Chapter 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; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: How 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Women in African colonial histories
• ISBN: 9780253108876; 025310887X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910962079203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II