Women in African colonial histories
By: Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi, editors.
Contributors: Allman, Jean Marie.; Geiger, Susan.; Musisi, Nakanyike.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
Subjects: Women -- Africa -- History; Africa -- Colonial influence
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What my heart wanted -- Heidi Gengenbach; title: Dynastic daughters -- Wendy Urban-Mead; title: Colonial midwives and modernizing childbirth in French West Africa -- Jane Turrittin; title: Politics of perception or perception of politics? -- Nakanyike Musisi; title: Woman in question -- Sean Hawkins; title: Colonialism, education, and gender relations in the Belgian Congo -- Gertrude Mianda; title: Virgin territory? -- Teresa Barnes; title: When in the white man's town -- Lynette A. Jackson; title: Queen mothers and good government in Buganda -- Holly Hanson; title: Marrying and marriage on a shifting terrain -- Victoria B. Tashjian and Jean Allman; title: Vultures of the marketplace -- Misty L. Bastian; title: Emancipate your husbands! -- Elizabeth Schmidt; title: Guerrilla girls and woman in the Zimbabwean national liberation struggle-- Tanya Lyons.