African women
Subtitle: a reader
By: [edited by] Chima J. Korieh
Publisher: Cognella
Published: 2010
Place of publication: San Diego, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 510
ISBN-13: 9781934269688
Subjects: Women; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Gender biases in African historiography  -- Paul Tiyambe Zeleza; title: Bringing African women into the classroom : rethinking pedagogy and epistemology  -- Obioma Nnaemeka; title: Women of power  -- Barbara Watterson; title: The dual-sex political system in operation : Igbo women and community politics in mid western Nigeria  -- Kamene Okonjo; title: Daughters of cattle : the significance of herding in the growth of complex societies in southern Africa between the 10th and 15th centuries  -- Alinah Segobye; title: Women in the rural economy : past, present and future  -- Jeanne Koopman; title: The "status of women" in indigenous African societies  -- Niara Sudarkasa; title: Muslim women in African history  -- Roberta A. Dunbar; title: Women in the transatlantic slave trade in southeastern Nigeria  -- Joseph E. Inikori; title: Introduction from Gendered colonialism in African history  -- Nancy Hunt; title: Women in Francophone Africa in the 1930s : unraveling of a neglected report  -- Ghislaine Lydon; title: The invisible farmer? Women, gender, and colonial agricultural policy in the Igbo region of Nigeria, c. 1913-1954  -- Chima J. Korieh; title: Omu Okwei, the merchant queen of Ossomari : a biographical sketch  -- Felicia Ekejiuba; title: Queen mothers and good government in Buganda : the loss of women's political power in nineteenth-century East Africa  -- Holly Hanson; title: "This matter concerns women" : traditions and women's protests in colonial eastern Nigeria  -- Chima J. Korieh; title: Cheer the beloved country? Some thoughts on gendered representations, nationalism and the media  -- Jeanne Prinsloo; title: "Emancipate your husbands!" Women and nationalism in Guinea, 1953-1958  -- Elizabeth Schmidt; title: Becoming postcolonial : African women changing the meaning of citizenship  -- Patricia McFadden; title: Women in movement : transformations in African political landscapes  -- Aili Mari Tripp; title: Definitions of women and development : an African perspective  -- Achola O. Pala; title: The role of women in economic and political development in contemporary Africa  -- Fredoline O. Anunobi; title: "Other" bodies : Western feminism, race, and representation in female circumcision discourse  -- Chima J. Korieh; title: Civilizing the savage : towards a cross-cultural dialogue on human rights and reproductive self-determination for women in developing countries  -- Obijiofor Aginam; title: Globalization and change in Africa : patterns and implications  -- Jepkorir Rose Chepyator-Thomson; title: Home-sweet-home, but exactly where? African women's immigration and the challenges of establishing selves -- Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika.