Iris Berger

Women in Twentieth-Century Africa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and to gain a significant voice in local and national politics. This book introduces students to many remarkable women, who organized religious and political movements, fought in anti-colonial wars, ran away to escape arranged marriages, and during the 1990s began successful campaigns for gender parity in national legislatures. The book also explores the apparent paradox in the conflicting images of African women - as singularly oppressed and dominated by men, but also as strong, resourceful, and willing to challenge governments and local traditions to protect themselves and their families. Understanding the tension between women's power and their oppression, between their strength and their vulnerability, offers a new lens for understanding the relationship between the state and society in the twentieth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 415g
• ISBN-13: 9780521741217
• ISBN-10: 0521741211
• Artikelnr.: 44381311

Autorenporträt

Iris Berger is Professor of History, Emerita at the State University of New York, Albany.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Colonizing African families
2. Confrontation and adaptation
3. Domesticity and modernization
4. Mothers of nationalism
5. The struggle continues
6. 'Messengers of a new design': marriage, family and sexuality
7. Women's rights: the second decolonization?
8. Empowerment and inequality in a new global age
Conclusion.