Women in African colonial histories:
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Veröffentlicht: Bloomington Indiana University Press 2002
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Beschreibung:WOMEN IN AFRICAN COLONIAL HISTORIES; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; WOMEN IN AFRICAN COLONIAL HISTORIES: AN INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 -- What My Heart WantedŽ: Gendered Stories of Early Colonial Encounters in Southern Mozambique; Chapter 2 -- Dynastic Daughters: Three Royal Kwena Women and E.L. Price of the London Missionary Society, 1853 ... 1881; Chapter 3 -- Colonial Midwives and Modernizing Childbirth in French West Africa; Chapter 4 -- The Politics of Perception or Perception as Politics? Colonial and Missionary Representations of Baganda Women, 1900 ... 1945
Chapter 5 -- The Woman in QuestionŽ: Marriage and Identity in the Colonial Courts of Northern Ghana, 1907 ... 1954Chapter 6 -- Colonialism, Education, and Gender Relations in the Belgian Congo: The Évolué Case; Chapter 7 -- Virgin Territory? Travel and Migration by African Women in Twentieth-Century Southern Africa; Chapter 8 -- When in the White Man's TownŽ: Zimbabwean Women Remember Chibeura; Chapter 9 -- Queen Mothers and Good Government in Buganda: The Lo
By considering the lives of ordinary African women - farmers, queen mothers, midwives, urban dwellers, migrants, and political leaders - in the context of particular colonial conditions at specific places and time, Women in African Colonial Histories challenges the notion of a homogeneous 'African women's experience.' Innovative use of primary sources, including life histories, oral narratives, court cases, newspapers, colonial archives, and physical evidence, attests that African women's experiences defy statistical representation
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ISBN:025310887X
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