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Author Day, Lynda Rose, 1953-

Title Gender and power in Sierra Leone : women chiefs of the last two centuries / Lynda Day
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 229 pages)
Contents Gender and Power: The Women Chiefs of Sierra Leone -- Men's and Women's Cultural Associations: The Construction of Gender and Gendered Authority -- Women of Authority Before the Colonial Era -- Women Chiefs During the Nineteenth Century Wars of Trade, Expansion, and State-Building -- Women Leaders and the Mediation of Colonial Rule -- Women Chiefs and the Nation State -- The Sierra Leone Civil War and the Challenges for Women's Customary Authority
Summary This book addresses thegendered political authority in Sierra Leone, a relatively unknown topic, and looks at the part it plays in women's history, political history, political transformation in Africa, and global women's political leadership
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Women -- Sierra Leone -- History
Power (Social sciences) -- Sierra Leone -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Women's Studies.
Power (Social sciences)
Women
Geschlechterrolle.
Häuptling.
Frau.
Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780230337923
0230337929
9781283439886
1283439883
9786613439888
6613439886