| Description |
viii, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
What my heart wanted / Heidi Gengenbach -- Dynastic daughters / Wendy Urban-Mead -- Colonial midwives and modernizing childbirth in French West Africa / Jane Turrittin -- Politics of perception or perception of politics? / Nakanyike Musisi -- Woman in question / Sean Hawkins -- Colonialism, education, and gender relations in the Belgian Congo / Gertrude Mianda -- Virgin territory? / Teresa Barnes -- When in the white man's town / Lynette A. Jackson -- Queen mothers and good government in Buganda / Holly Hanson -- Marrying and marriage on a shifting terrain / Victoria B. Tashjian and Jean Allman -- Vultures of the marketplace / Misty L. Bastian -- Emancipate your husbands! / Elizabeth Schmidt -- Guerrilla girls and women in the Zimbabwean national liberation struggle / Tanya Lyons |
| Summary |
While recognising the inherent violence and brutality of the colonial encounter, the essays in this anthology show that African women were not simply the hapless victims of European political rule |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Women -- Africa -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Africa -- Colonial influence.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008114108
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Author |
Allman, Jean Marie.
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Geiger, Susan.
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Musisi, Nakanyike.
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| LC no. |
2001003447 |
| ISBN |
0253215072 |
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9780253215079 |
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0253340470 |
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9780253340474 |
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