Women in African Colonial Histories

By: Susan Geiger (Editor), Nakanyike Musisi (Editor), Jean Marie Allman (Editor)

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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 recognising the inherent violence and brutality of the colonial encounter, the thirteen essays in this lively anthology 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 to the diversity of African women's lives and reveals them as active agents whose 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.

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"Readers of this volume will find a number of real gemes in each section... Instructors can not only expose their students to the latest researchbut also provide a primary source that the students can use to hone their own reading and analytical skills." --Journal of African History "This is an interesting and revealing exploration of an important population that has long been neglected. All levels and collections." --Choice , December 2002

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Acknowledgments
Women in African Colonial Histories: An Introduction	p. 1
Encounters and Engagements
"What My Heart Wanted": Gendered Stories of Early Colonial Encounters in Southern Mozambique	p. 19
Dynastic Daughters: Three Royal Kwena Women and E. L. Price of the London Missionary Society, 1853-1881	p. 48
Colonial Midwives and Modernizing Childbirth in French West Africa	p. 71
Perceptions and Representations
The Politics of Perception or Perception as Politics? Colonial and Missionary Representations of Baganda Women, 1900-1945	p. 95
"The Woman in Question": Marriage and Identity in the Colonial Courts of Northern Ghana, 1907-1954	p. 116
Colonialism, Education, and Gender Relations in the Belgian Congo: The Evolue Case	p. 144
Virgin Territory? Travel and Migration by African Women in Twentieth-Century Southern Africa	p. 164
"When in the White Man's Town": Zimbabwean Women Remember Chibeura	p. 191
Power Reconfigured/Power Contested
Queen Mothers and Good Government in Buganda: The Loss of Women's Political Power in Nineteenth-Century East Africa	p. 219
Marrying and Marriage on a Shifting Terrain: Reconfigurations of Power and Authority in Early Colonial Asante	p. 237
"Vultures of the Marketplace": Southeastern Nigerian Women and Discourses of the Ogu Umunwaanyi (Women's War) of 1929	p. 260
"Emancipate Your Husbands!" Women and Nationalism in Guinea, 1953-1958	p. 282
Guerrilla Girls and Women in the Zimbabwean National Liberation Struggle	p. 305
Contributors	p. 327
Index	p. 331
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