Gendered colonialisms in African history /

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Imprint:Oxford ; Malden [Mass.] : Blackwell, 1997.
Description:x, 138 p. : ill., 1 map ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Gender & history
Subject:Sex discrimination against women -- Africa -- History.
Women -- Africa -- History.
Sex role -- Political aspects -- Africa -- History.
Colonies -- Africa -- History.
Sex discrimination against women.
Sex role -- Political aspects.
Women.
Africa.
History.
Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3900710
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Other authors / contributors:Hunt, Nancy Rose.
Liu, Tessie P.
Quataert, Jean H. (Jean Helen), 1945-
ISBN:0631204768 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. Ngaitana (I will circumcise myself)
  • The Gender and Generational Politics of the 1956 Ban on Clitoridectomy in Meru, Kenya
  • 2. "Cocky" Hahn and the "Black Venus"
  • The Making of a Native Commissioner in South West Africa, 1915-46
  • 3. "Not Welfare or Uplift Work"
  • White Women, Masculinity and Policing in South Africa
  • 4. Love Magic and Political Morality in Central Madagascar, 1875-1990
  • 5. "Fork Up and Smile"
  • Marketing, Colonial Knowledge and the Female Subject in Zimbabwe