基本説明
Explores the lives of African women, both black and white, in their diverse encounters with colonialism.
Full Description
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.
Contents
Preliminary Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi
Part 1. Encounters and Engagements
1. "What My Heart Wanted": Gendered Stories of Early Colonial Encounters in Southern Mozambique Heidi Gengenbach
2. Dynastic Daughters: Three Royal Kwena Women and E. L. Price of the London Missionary Society, 1853-1881 Wendy Urban-Mead
3. Colonial Midwives and Modernizing Childbirth in French West Africa Jane Turrittin
Part 2. Perceptions and Representations
4. The Politics of Perception of Perception as Politics?: Colonial and Missionary Representations of Baganda Women, 1900-1945 Nakanyike Musisi
5. "The Woman in Question": Marriage and Identity in the Colonial Courts of Northern Ghana, 1907-1954 Sean Hawkins
6. Colonialism, Education, and Gender Relations in the Belgian Congo: The Évolué Case Gertrude Mianda
7. Virgin Territory?: Travel and Migration by African Women in Twentieth Century Southern Africa Teresa Barnes
8. "When in the White Man's Town": Zimbabwean Women Remember Chibeura Lynette Jackson
Part 3. Power Reconfigured/Power Contested
9. Queen Mothers and Good Government in Buganda: The Loss of Women's Political Power in Nineteenth Century East Africa Holly Hanson
10. Marrying and Marriage on a Shifting Terrain: Reconfigurations of Power and Authority in Early Colonial Asante Victoria Tashjian and Jean Allman
11. "Vultures of the Marketplace": Southeastern Nigerian Women and Discourses of the Ogu Umunwaayi (Women's War) of 1929 Misty Bastian
12. "Emancipate Your Husbands!": Women and Nationalism in Guinea, 1953-1958 Elizabeth Schmidt
13. Guerrilla Girls and Women in the Zimbabwean National Liberation Struggle Tanya Lyons
Afterword Susan Geiger
Contributors
Index
