Hadija's Story: Diaspora, Gender, and Belonging in the Cameroon Grassfields
Author:   Harmony O'Rourke
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
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9780253023759


Pages:   266
Publication Date:   13 February 2017
Format:   Hardback
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Author:   Harmony O'Rourke
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.535kg
ISBN:  

9780253023759


ISBN 10:   0253023750
Pages:   266
Publication Date:   13 February 2017
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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"Acknowledgments Introduction Part I 1. ""Worthy Subjects"" 2. ""People of the North"" Part II 3. Slave or Daughter? 4. First Reversal: Marriage and Enslavement 5. Second Reversal: Death and Survival 6. Third Reversal: Conflict and Judgment Conclusion Glossary Bibliography Index"

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Steers the conversation on Hausa diaspora experiences and Hausa politics of belonging and identity toward recognition of the importance of gender and its expressions in contestations over marriage, morality, and belonging. Moses E. Ochonu, author of Colonialism by Proxy</p>


An excellent example of how legal cases may be employed to provide evidence of the complicated contradictions of dominant social ideologies, in this case about gender relations in Hausa Grassfields society. An original and important contribution. -Elisha P. Renne, author of Population and Progress in a Yoruba Town Steers the conversation on Hausa diaspora experiences and Hausa politics of belonging and identity toward recognition of the importance of gender and its expressions in contestations over marriage, morality, and belonging. -Moses E. Ochonu, author of Colonialism by Proxy


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Harmony O'Rourke is Assistant Professor of History at Pitzer College.

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