Women in African colonial histories [electronic resource] / Je an Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, editors. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2002. - viii, 338 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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


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])
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This volume is made possible by a grant from the An drew W. Mellon Foundation.




Women-- History.-- Africa


Africa-- Colonial influence.