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

• Autore: Matera Marc <1976->
• 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
• ISBN: 1-283-36099-3; 9786613360991; 0-230-35606-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910812946703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II