Women In African Colonial Histories
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Women In African Colonial Histories
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Author : Jean Allman
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2002-04-01
Women In African Colonial Histories written by Jean Allman and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-04-01 with History categories.
How did African women negotiate the complex political, economic, and social forces of colonialism in their daily lives? How did they make meaningful lives for themselves in a world that challenged fundamental notions of work, sexuality, marriage, motherhood, and family? 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 times, Women in African Colonial Histories challenges the notion of a homogeneous "African women's experience." While recognizing the inherent violence and brutality of the colonial encounter, the essays in this lively volume show that African women were not simply the hapless victims of European political rule. 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 static representation. Readers at all levels will find this an important contribution to ongoing debates in African women's history and African colonial history.
African Women
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Author : Catherine Coquery-vidrovitch
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-10-08
African Women written by Catherine Coquery-vidrovitch and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10-08 with Political Science categories.
Over the last century, the social and economic roles played by African women have evolved dramatically. Long confined to home and field, overlooked by their menfolk and missionaries alike, African women worked, thought, dreamed, and struggled. They migrated to the cities, invented new jobs, and activated the so-called informal economy to become Africa's economic and social focal point. As a result, despite their lack of education and relatively low status, women are now Africa's best hope for the future. This sweeping and innovative book is the first to reconstruct the full history of women in sub-Saharan Africa. Tracing the lot of African women from the eve of the colonial period to the present, Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch explores the stages and forms of women's collective roles as well as their individual emancipation through revolts, urban migrations, economic impacts, social claims, political strength, and creativity. Comparing case studies drawn from throughout the region, she sheds light on issues ranging from gender to economy, politics, society, and culture. Utilizing an impressive array of sources, she highlights broad general patterns without overlooking crucial local variations. With its breadth of coverage and clear analysis of complex questions, this book is destined to become a standard text for scholars and students alike.
African Women
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Author : Kathleen Sheldon
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2017-04-24
African Women written by Kathleen Sheldon and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-24 with History categories.
African women's history is a topic as vast as the continent itself, embracing an array of societies in over fifty countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. In African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, Kathleen Sheldon masterfully delivers a comprehensive study of this expansive story from before the time of records to the present day. She provides rich background on descent systems and the roles of women in matrilineal and patrilineal systems. Sheldon's work profiles elite women, as well as those in leadership roles, traders and market women, religious women, slave women, women in resistance movements, and women in politics and development. The rich case studies and biographies in this thorough survey establish a grand narrative about women's roles in the history of Africa.
Deep Histories
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2021-11-22
Deep Histories written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-11-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
Deep hiStories represents the first substantial publication on gender and colonialism in Southern Africa in recent years, and suggests methodological ways forward for a post-apartheid and postcolonial generation of scholars. The volume’s theorizing, which is based on Southern African regional material, is certain to impact on international debates on gender – debates which have shifted from earlier feminisms towards theorizations which include sexual difference, subjectivities, colonial (and postcolonial) discourses and the politics of representation. Deep hiStories goes beyond the dichotomies which have largely characterized the discussion of women and gender in Africa, and explores alternative models of interpretation such as ‘genealogies of voice’. These ‘genealogies’ transcend the conventional binaries of visibility and invisibility, speaking and silence. Works covering South Africa from the eighteenth to the twentieth century and Zimbabwe, Namibia and Cameroon in the twentieth include: • Colonial readings of Foucault • Ideologies of domesticity • Torture and testimony of slave women • Women as missionary targets • Gender and the public sphere • Race, science and spectacle • Male nursing on mines • Infanticide, insanity and social control • Fertility and the postcolonial state • Literary reconstructions of the past • Gender-blending and code-switching • De/colonizing the queer The collection includes diverse research on the body in Southern Africa for the first time. It brings new subtleties to the ongoing debates on culture, civility and sexuality, dealing centrally with constructions of race and whiteness in history and literature. It is an important resource for teachers and students of gender and colonial studies.
Women In Twentieth Century Africa
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Author : Iris Berger
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2016-04-26
Women In Twentieth Century Africa written by Iris Berger and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-26 with History categories.
Explores the paradoxical image of African women as exceptionally oppressed, but also as strong, resourceful and rebellious.
The Palgrave Handbook Of African Colonial And Postcolonial History
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Author : Martin S. Shanguhyia
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2018-01-28
The Palgrave Handbook Of African Colonial And Postcolonial History written by Martin S. Shanguhyia and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-01-28 with History categories.
This wide-ranging volume presents the most complete appraisal of modern African history to date. It assembles dozens of new and established scholars to tackle the questions and subjects that define the field, ranging from the economy, the two world wars, nationalism, decolonization, and postcolonial politics to religion, development, sexuality, and the African youth experience. Contributors are drawn from numerous fields in African studies, including art, music, literature, education, and anthropology. The themes they cover illustrate the depth of modern African history and the diversity and originality of lenses available for examining it. Older themes in the field have been treated to an engaging re-assessment, while new and emerging themes are situated as the book’s core strength. The result is a comprehensive, vital picture of where the field of modern African history stands today.
Deep Histories
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Author : Wendy Woodward
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
Deep Histories written by Wendy Woodward and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with Africa, Southern categories.
African Womanhood In Colonial Kenya 1900 50
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Author : Tabitha Kanogo
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2005
African Womanhood In Colonial Kenya 1900 50 written by Tabitha Kanogo and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with African Women categories.
Within a broad analysis of colonial oppurtunities for physical, social and educational mobility, Kanogo shows how African and British male authorities tried, with uncertain opinions and from different perspectives, to control female initiatives, and how, to very varying degrees, women managed to achieve increasing measures of control over their own lives. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP
A Companion To Gender History
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Author : Teresa A. Meade
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
A Companion To Gender History written by Teresa A. Meade and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Social Science categories.
A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of womenaround the world, studies their interaction with men in genderedsocieties, and looks at the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. An extensive survey of the history of women around the world,their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. Discusses family history, the history of the body andsexuality, and cultural history alongside women’s history andgender history. Considers the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race andreligion to the formation of gendered societies. Contains both thematic essays and chronological-geographicessays. Gives due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern era as wellas to the modern era. Written by scholars from across the English-speaking world andscholars for whom English is not their first language.
The Female King Of Colonial Nigeria
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Author : Nwando Achebe
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2011-02-21
The Female King Of Colonial Nigeria written by Nwando Achebe and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-21 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
While providing critical perspectives on women, gender, sex and sexuality, and the colonial encounter, she considers how it was possible for this woman to take on the office and responsibilities of a traditionally male role.