Includes bibliographical references and index.

What my heart wanted / Heidi Gengenbach -- Dynastic daughters / Wendy Urban-Mead -- Colonial midwives and modernizing childbirt h in French West Africa / Jane Turrittin -- Politics of perceptio n or perception of politics? / Nakanyike Musisi -- Woman in quest ion / Sean Hawkins -- Colonialism, education, and gender relation s in the Belgian Congo / Gertrude Mianda -- Virgin territory? / Teresa Barnes -- When in the white man's town / Lynette A. Ja ckson -- Queen mothers and good government in Buganda / Holly Han son -- 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 struggl e / Tanya Lyons.

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