Judith A. Byfield

The Great Upheaval

Women and Nation in Postwar Nigeria

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• New African Histories
• Verlag: Ohio University Press
• Seitenzahl: 334
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 151mm x 228mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 488g
• ISBN-13: 9780821423981
• ISBN-10: 0821423983
• Artikelnr.: 56258218

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Birth and Demise of a Nation: The Egba United Government
Chapter 2. Abeokuta’s Centenary: Masculinity and Nationalist Politics in a
Colonial Space
Chapter 3. Race, Nation, and Politics in the Interwar Period
Chapter 4. Women, Rice, and War: Economic Crisis in Wartime Abeokuta
Chapter 5. “Freedom from Want”: Politics, Protest, and the Postwar
Interlude
Chapter 6. Daughters of Tinubu: Crisis and Confrontation in Abeokuta
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index