This course is inteded to introduce students to the history of women and gender in sub-Saharan Africa during the 19th and 20th centuries. We will touch upon many of the primary themes of historical scholarship by and about African women.
African history is contested terrain and the history of African women even more so.
Although our principal interest will be the events that took place in Africa, the role women played in these events, and the impacts upon them and their societies and cultures, we will also look at the ways these events have been represented to us by scholars of Africa.