Mobilizing Zanzibari Women [electronic resource] : The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa /
Decker, C.author.
The experiences of African women in the era before independence remain a woefully understudied facet of African history. This innovative and carefully argued study thus adds tremendously to our understanding of colonial history by focusing on women's education, professionalization, and political mobilization in the East African islands of Zanzibar.
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The experiences of African women in the era before independence remain a woefully understudied facet of African history. This innovative and carefully argued study thus adds tremendously to our understanding of colonial history by focusing on women's education, professionalization, and political mobilization in the East African islands of Zanzibar.
Inducting girls into the regime of respectability -- Training girls for colonial development -- Writing self-reliance in respectability -- Developing agents of mobility -- Mobilizing women during the time of politics.
Ethnology—Africa.
Sociology.
Africa—History.
Economic development.
Philosophy and social sciences.
African Culture.
Sociology, general.
African History.
Gender Studies.
Development Studies.
Philosophy of Education.