Browse  ▾ How to… ▾ Poetry Prize About the Press shopping_cart search Judith A. Byfield Judith A. Byfield is a professor of history at Cornell University. She is the author of The Bluest Hands: A Social and Economic History of Women Dyers in Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1890–1940 and coeditor of Global Africa: Into the Twenty-First Century, Africa and World War II, and Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture, and Historical Change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland. LISTED IN: Colonialism and Decolonization · African Studies · Social History · Nigeria · History | Africa | West · Women’s Studies The Great Upheaval Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria By Judith A. Byfield In this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making, Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in postwar Nigeria. She illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism, offering new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state. RELATED AUTHORS Lynn Schler Alicia C. Decker Abosede A. George BROWSE… New Titles Series Subjects Catalogs HOW TO… Contact Us Order a Book Request an Exam or Desk Copy Request Permission to Reprint Submit a Manuscript About the Press Support the Press Poetry Prize Privacy Policy Shopping Cart Follow us on Twitter Find us on Facebook Ohio University Press · Swallow Press Alden Library, Suite 101 30 Park Place Athens, OH 45701-2909 +1 740 593 1154