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Women in African colonial histories
Susan. Geiger, Nakanyike. Musisi and Jean Marie Allman
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Frontmatter
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Acknowledgments (page ix)
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Women in African Colonial Histories: An Introduction (Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, page 1)
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PART ONE: ENCOUNTERS AND ENGAGEMENTS
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1. "What My Heart Wanted": Gendered Stories of Early Colonial Encounters in Southern Mozambique (Heidi Gengenbach, page 19)
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2. Dynastic Daughters: Three Royal Kwena Women and E. L. Price of the London Missionary Society, 1853-1881 (Wendy Urban-Mead, page 48)
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3. Colonial Midwives and Modernizing Childbirth in French West Africa (Jane Turrittin, page 71)
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PART TWO: PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS
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4. The Politics of Perception or Perception as Politics? Colonial and Missionary Representations of Baganda Women, 1900-1945 (Nakanyike Musisi, page 95)
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5. "The Woman in Question": Marriage and Identity in the Colonial Courts of Northern Ghana, 1907-1954 (Sean Hawkins, page 116)
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6. Colonialism, Education, and Gender Relations in the Belgian Congo: The Évolué Case (Gertrude Mianda, page 144)
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7. Virgin Territory? Travel and Migration by African Women in Twentieth-Century Southern Africa (Teresa Barnes, page 164)
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8. "When in the White Man's Town": Zimbabwean Women Remember Chibeura (Lynette A. Jackson, page 191)
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PART THREE: POWER RECONFIGURED/POWER CONTESTED
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9. Queen Mothers and Good Government in Buganda: The Loss of Women's Political Power in Nineteenth-Century East Africa (Holly Hanson, page 219)
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10. Marrying and Marriage on a Shifting Terrain: Reconfigurations of Power and Authority in Early Colonial Asante (Victoria B. Tashjian and Jean Allman, page 237)
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11. "Vultures of the Marketplace": Southeastern Nigerian Women and Discourses of the Ogu Umunwaanyi (Women's War) of 1929 (Misty L. Bastian, page 260)
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12. "Emancipate Your Husbands!" Women and Nationalism in Guinea, 1953-1958 (Elizabeth Schmidt, page 282)
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13. Guerrilla Girls and Women in the Zimbabwean National Liberation Struggle (Tanya Lyons, page 305)
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Contributors (page 327)
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Index (page 331)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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IJAHS | 35.2/3 (2002): 520-522 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-7882%282002%2935%3A2%2F3%3C520%3AWIACH%3E2.0.CO%3B2-R |
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Published: c2002
Publisher: Indiana University Press
- 9780253340474 (hardcover)
- 9780253108876 (ebook)
- 9780253215079 (paper)