Women in African colonial histories / Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, editors.

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[2002], ©2002
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Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2002], ©2002.

Physical description

viii, 338 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Contents

What my heart wanted / Heidi Gengenbach -- Dynastic daughters / Wendy Urban-Mead -- Colonial midwives and modernizing childbirth in French West Africa / Jane Turrittin -- Politics of perception or perception of politics? / Nakanyike Musisi -- Woman in question / Sean Hawkins -- Colonialism, education, and gender relations in the Belgian Congo / Gertrude Mianda -- Virgin territory? / Teresa Barnes -- When in the white man's town / Lynette A. Jackson -- Queen mothers and good government in Buganda / Holly Hanson -- Marrying and marriage on a shifting terrain / Victoria B. Tashjian and Jean Allman -- Vultures of the marketplace / Misty L. Bastian -- Emancipate your husbands! / Elizabeth Schmidt -- Guerrilla girls and woman in the Zimbabwean national liberation struggle / Tanya Lyons.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2006. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet. This volume is made possible by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

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