Gendered colonialisms in African history

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colonialisme, genre, femme

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histoire

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Titre Gendered colonialisms in African history
Type de publication Livre
Langue principale de la publication anglais
Année de publication 1997
Editeur scientifique Nancy Rose HUNT
Tessie P. LIU
Jean Helen QUATAERT
Nombre de pages x-138
Éditeur Blackwell
Ville Oxford
Genre recueil d'études
Pays d'édition Royaume-Uni
ISBN (Forme EAN-13) 9780631204763
Localisation BnF (Paris)
Résumé/Présentation "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." 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).
Référence complète Hunt, Nancy R. ; Liu, Tessie P. ; Quataert, Jean Helen (ed.). Gendered colonialisms in African history. Oxford : Blackwell, 1997, X-138 p. : illustrations ; 23 cm. [Colonialismes et genres dans l'histoire de l'Afrique].