Gendering ethnicity in African women's lives / / edited by Jan Bender Shetler |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, Wisconsin : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (349 pages) |
Disciplina | 305.40967 |
Collana | Women in Africa and the diaspora |
Soggetto topico |
Women - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History
Women - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Social conditions Ethnicity - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN | 0-299-30393-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Women's alternative practices of ethnicity / Jan Bender Shetler -- Part One. Forming interethnic alliances. Gendering the history of social memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania, as an antidote to tribal history / Jan Bender Shetler -- Living ethnicity: gender, livelihood, and ethnic identity in Mozambique / Heidi Gengenbach -- Part Two. Constructing new forms of identity. Re-reading the 1835 "Fingo Emancipation": women and ethnicity in the colonial archive / Poppy Fry -- New African marriage and panethnic politics in segregationist South Africa / Meghan Healy-Clancy -- Women and non-ethnic politics in East Africa, 1934-1947 / Ethan R. Sanders -- Part Three. Promoting gendered domains of ethnicity. Gender and the limits of "Ndebeleness," 1910-1960s: Abezansi churchwomen's domestic and associational alliances / Wendy Urban-Mead -- "Women were not supposed to fight": the gendered uses of martial and moral Zuluness during uDlame, 1990-1994 / Jill E. Kelly -- Sorting and suffering: social classification in post-genocide Rwanda / Jennie E. Burnet -- Part Four. Performing gendered ethnic power. Matriliny, masculinity, and contested gendered definitions of ethnic identity and power in nineteenth-century southeastern Nigeria / Ndubueze L. Mbah -- Shaming men, performing power: female authority in Zimbabwe and Tanzania on the eve of colonial rule / Heike I. Schmidt -- Muslim women legislators in postcolonial Kenya: between gender, ethnicity, and religion / Ousseina Alidou -- Afterword: Reflections on gender, ethnicity, and power / Dorothy L. Hodgson. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910797055203321 |
Madison, Wisconsin : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , [2015] | ||
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Gendering ethnicity in African women's lives / / edited by Jan Bender Shetler |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Madison, Wisconsin : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , [2015] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (349 pages) |
Disciplina | 305.40967 |
Collana | Women in Africa and the diaspora |
Soggetto topico |
Women - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History
Women - Africa, Sub-Saharan - Social conditions Ethnicity - Africa, Sub-Saharan |
ISBN | 0-299-30393-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Women's alternative practices of ethnicity / Jan Bender Shetler -- Part One. Forming interethnic alliances. Gendering the history of social memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania, as an antidote to tribal history / Jan Bender Shetler -- Living ethnicity: gender, livelihood, and ethnic identity in Mozambique / Heidi Gengenbach -- Part Two. Constructing new forms of identity. Re-reading the 1835 "Fingo Emancipation": women and ethnicity in the colonial archive / Poppy Fry -- New African marriage and panethnic politics in segregationist South Africa / Meghan Healy-Clancy -- Women and non-ethnic politics in East Africa, 1934-1947 / Ethan R. Sanders -- Part Three. Promoting gendered domains of ethnicity. Gender and the limits of "Ndebeleness," 1910-1960s: Abezansi churchwomen's domestic and associational alliances / Wendy Urban-Mead -- "Women were not supposed to fight": the gendered uses of martial and moral Zuluness during uDlame, 1990-1994 / Jill E. Kelly -- Sorting and suffering: social classification in post-genocide Rwanda / Jennie E. Burnet -- Part Four. Performing gendered ethnic power. Matriliny, masculinity, and contested gendered definitions of ethnic identity and power in nineteenth-century southeastern Nigeria / Ndubueze L. Mbah -- Shaming men, performing power: female authority in Zimbabwe and Tanzania on the eve of colonial rule / Heike I. Schmidt -- Muslim women legislators in postcolonial Kenya: between gender, ethnicity, and religion / Ousseina Alidou -- Afterword: Reflections on gender, ethnicity, and power / Dorothy L. Hodgson. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910829056503321 |
Madison, Wisconsin : , : The University of Wisconsin Press, , [2015] | ||
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Historical dictionary of women in Sub-Saharan Africa / / Kathleen Sheldon |
Autore | Sheldon Kathleen E. <1952-> |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (521 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.4096703 |
Collana | Historical Dictionaries of Women in the World |
Soggetto topico |
Women - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History
Feminism - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History |
ISBN | 1-4422-6293-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Editor's Foreword; Preface; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Map; Chronology; Introduction; THE DICTIONARY; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography; About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910798264903321 |
Sheldon Kathleen E. <1952->
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Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 | ||
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Historical dictionary of women in Sub-Saharan Africa / / Kathleen Sheldon |
Autore | Sheldon Kathleen E. <1952-> |
Edizione | [2nd ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (521 p.) |
Disciplina | 305.4096703 |
Collana | Historical Dictionaries of Women in the World |
Soggetto topico |
Women - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History
Feminism - Africa, Sub-Saharan - History |
ISBN | 1-4422-6293-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Contents; Editor's Foreword; Preface; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Map; Chronology; Introduction; THE DICTIONARY; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z; Appendix 1; Appendix 2; Bibliography; About the Author |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910827166703321 |
Sheldon Kathleen E. <1952->
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Lanham, [Maryland] : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , 2016 | ||
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