Women in twentieth-century Africa
著者
書誌事項
Women in twentieth-century Africa
（New approaches to African history, [10]）
Cambridge University Press, 2016
- : pbk
大学図書館所蔵 全3件
注記
Includes bibliographical references (p. 205-225) and index
内容説明・目次
内容説明
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 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.
目次
- 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.
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