Overview

Focusing on African and European women and men, five articles explore generational conflict, connections between representation and violence, the incorporation of gendered power into state formation, memory and forgetting, and consumption and commodity cultures.

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Author:   Nancy Rose Hunt (University of Arizona) ,  Tessie P. Liu (Northwestern University) ,  Jean Quataert (Binghamton University)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.00cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.218kg
ISBN:  

9780631204763

ISBN 10:   0631204768
Pages:   152
Publication Date:   23 May 1997
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

"Introduction: Nancy Rose Hunt (University of Arizona, USA). 1. Ngaitana (I will circumcise myself): The Gender and Generational Politics of the 1956 Ban on Clitoridectomy in Meru, Kenya: Lynn M. Thomas (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA). 2. ""Cocky"" Hahn and the ""Black Venus"": The Making of a Native Commissioner in South West Africa, 1915-46: Patricia Hayes (University of the Western Cape, South Africa, and Zimbabwe). 3. ""Not Welfare or Uplift Work"": White Women, Masculinity and Policing in South Africa: Keith Shear (Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois, USA, and South Africa). 4. Love Magic and Political Morality in Central Madagascar, 1875-1990: David Graeber (University of Chicago, USA). 5. ""Fork Up and Smile"": Marketing, Colonial Knowledge and the Female Subject in Zimbabwe: Timothy Burke (Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania, USA)."

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These new works are likely to influence future research aimed at disentangling the complicated local and metropolitan interactions that gendered so many facets of colonial experiences in Africa and elsewhere. American Historical Review.

"""These new works are likely to influence future research aimed at disentangling the complicated local and metropolitan interactions that gendered so many facets of colonial experiences in Africa and elsewhere."" American Historical Review."

""These new works are likely to influence future research aimed at disentangling the complicated local and metropolitan interactions that gendered so many facets of colonial experiences in Africa and elsewhere."" American Historical Review.

Author Information

Nancy Rose Hunt and Tessie P. Liu are the authors of Gendered Colonialisms in African History, published by Wiley.

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