Gendering ethnicity in African women's lives /edited by Jan Bender Shetler.
Gendering ethnicity in African women's lives /edited by Jan Bender Shetler.
- Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, (c)2015.
- 1 online resource.
- Women in Africa and the diaspora .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Women's alternative practices of ethnicity / Part One. Forming interethnic alliances. Gendering the history of social memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania, as an antidote to tribal history / Living ethnicity: gender, livelihood, and ethnic identity in Mozambique / Part Two. Constructing new forms of identity. Re-reading the 1835 "Fingo Emancipation": women and ethnicity in the colonial archive / New African marriage and panethnic politics in segregationist South Africa / Women and non-ethnic politics in East Africa, 1934-1947 / Part Three. Promoting gendered domains of ethnicity. Gender and the limits of "Ndebeleness," 1910-1960s: Abezansi churchwomen's domestic and associational alliances / "Women were not supposed to fight": the gendered uses of martial and moral Zuluness during uDlame, 1990-1994 / Sorting and suffering: social classification in post-genocide Rwanda / Part Four. Performing gendered ethnic power. Matriliny, masculinity, and contested gendered definitions of ethnic identity and power in nineteenth-century southeastern Nigeria / Shaming men, performing power: female authority in Zimbabwe and Tanzania on the eve of colonial rule / Muslim women legislators in postcolonial Kenya: between gender, ethnicity, and religion / Afterword: Reflections on gender, ethnicity, and power / Jan Bender Shetler -- Jan Bender Shetler -- Heidi Gengenbach -- Poppy Fry -- Meghan Healy-Clancy -- Ethan R. Sanders -- Wendy Urban-Mead -- Jill E. Kelly -- Jennie E. Burnet -- Ndubueze L. Mbah -- Heike I. Schmidt -- Ousseina Alidou -- Dorothy L. Hodgson.
9780299303938
Ethnicity--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Women--Social conditions.--Africa, Sub-Saharan
Women--History.--Africa, Sub-Saharan
Electronic Books.
HQ1787 / .G463 2015
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction: Women's alternative practices of ethnicity / Part One. Forming interethnic alliances. Gendering the history of social memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania, as an antidote to tribal history / Living ethnicity: gender, livelihood, and ethnic identity in Mozambique / Part Two. Constructing new forms of identity. Re-reading the 1835 "Fingo Emancipation": women and ethnicity in the colonial archive / New African marriage and panethnic politics in segregationist South Africa / Women and non-ethnic politics in East Africa, 1934-1947 / Part Three. Promoting gendered domains of ethnicity. Gender and the limits of "Ndebeleness," 1910-1960s: Abezansi churchwomen's domestic and associational alliances / "Women were not supposed to fight": the gendered uses of martial and moral Zuluness during uDlame, 1990-1994 / Sorting and suffering: social classification in post-genocide Rwanda / Part Four. Performing gendered ethnic power. Matriliny, masculinity, and contested gendered definitions of ethnic identity and power in nineteenth-century southeastern Nigeria / Shaming men, performing power: female authority in Zimbabwe and Tanzania on the eve of colonial rule / Muslim women legislators in postcolonial Kenya: between gender, ethnicity, and religion / Afterword: Reflections on gender, ethnicity, and power / Jan Bender Shetler -- Jan Bender Shetler -- Heidi Gengenbach -- Poppy Fry -- Meghan Healy-Clancy -- Ethan R. Sanders -- Wendy Urban-Mead -- Jill E. Kelly -- Jennie E. Burnet -- Ndubueze L. Mbah -- Heike I. Schmidt -- Ousseina Alidou -- Dorothy L. Hodgson.
9780299303938
Ethnicity--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Women--Social conditions.--Africa, Sub-Saharan
Women--History.--Africa, Sub-Saharan
Electronic Books.
HQ1787 / .G463 2015