Gendering Ethnicity in African Women's Lives.
Shetler, Jan Bender.
Gendering Ethnicity in African Women's Lives. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (349 pages) - Women in Africa and the Diaspora Series . - Women in Africa and the Diaspora Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Women's Alternative Practices of Ethnicity in Africa (Jan Bender Shetler) -- Part I. Forming Interethnic Alliances -- 1. Gendering the History of Social Memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania, as an Antidote to "Tribal" History (Jan Bender Shetler) -- 2. Living Ethnicity: Gender, Livelihood, and Ethnic Identity in Mozambique (Heidi Gengenbach) -- Part II. Constructing New Forms of Identity -- 3. Re-reading the 1835 "Fingo Emancipation": Women and Ethnicity in the Colonial Archive (Poppy Fry) -- 4. New African Marriage and Panethnic Politics in Segregationist South Africa (Meghan Healy-Clancy) -- 5. Women and Non-ethnic Politics in East Africa, 1934-1947 (Ethan R. Sanders) -- Part III. Promoting Gendered Domains of Ethnicity -- 6. Gender and the Limits of "Ndebeleness," 1910-1960s: Abezansi Churchwomen's Domestic and Associational Alliances (Wendy Urban-Mead) -- 7. "Women Were Not Supposed to Fight": The Gendered Uses of Martial and Moral Zuluness during uDlame, 1990-1994 (Jill E. Kelly) -- 8. Sorting and Suffering: Social Classification in Postgenocide Rwanda (Jennie E. Burnet) -- Part IV. Performing Gendered Ethnic Power -- 9. Matriliny, Masculinity, and Contested Gendered Definitions of Ethnic Identity and Power in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Nigeria (Ndubueze L. Mbah) -- 10. Shaming Men, Performing Power: Female Authority in Zimbabwe and Tanzania on the Eve of Colonial Rule (Heike I. Schmidt) -- 11. Muslim Women Legislators in Postcolonial Kenya: Between Gender, Ethnicity, and Religion (Ousseina D. Alidou) -- Afterword: Reflections on Gender, Ethnicity, and Power (Dorothy L. Hodgson) -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index.
9780299303938
Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History.
Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Social conditions.
Ethnicity--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Electronic books.
HQ1787 .G457 2015
305.40967
Gendering Ethnicity in African Women's Lives. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (349 pages) - Women in Africa and the Diaspora Series . - Women in Africa and the Diaspora Series .
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Women's Alternative Practices of Ethnicity in Africa (Jan Bender Shetler) -- Part I. Forming Interethnic Alliances -- 1. Gendering the History of Social Memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania, as an Antidote to "Tribal" History (Jan Bender Shetler) -- 2. Living Ethnicity: Gender, Livelihood, and Ethnic Identity in Mozambique (Heidi Gengenbach) -- Part II. Constructing New Forms of Identity -- 3. Re-reading the 1835 "Fingo Emancipation": Women and Ethnicity in the Colonial Archive (Poppy Fry) -- 4. New African Marriage and Panethnic Politics in Segregationist South Africa (Meghan Healy-Clancy) -- 5. Women and Non-ethnic Politics in East Africa, 1934-1947 (Ethan R. Sanders) -- Part III. Promoting Gendered Domains of Ethnicity -- 6. Gender and the Limits of "Ndebeleness," 1910-1960s: Abezansi Churchwomen's Domestic and Associational Alliances (Wendy Urban-Mead) -- 7. "Women Were Not Supposed to Fight": The Gendered Uses of Martial and Moral Zuluness during uDlame, 1990-1994 (Jill E. Kelly) -- 8. Sorting and Suffering: Social Classification in Postgenocide Rwanda (Jennie E. Burnet) -- Part IV. Performing Gendered Ethnic Power -- 9. Matriliny, Masculinity, and Contested Gendered Definitions of Ethnic Identity and Power in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Nigeria (Ndubueze L. Mbah) -- 10. Shaming Men, Performing Power: Female Authority in Zimbabwe and Tanzania on the Eve of Colonial Rule (Heike I. Schmidt) -- 11. Muslim Women Legislators in Postcolonial Kenya: Between Gender, Ethnicity, and Religion (Ousseina D. Alidou) -- Afterword: Reflections on Gender, Ethnicity, and Power (Dorothy L. Hodgson) -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index.
9780299303938
Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History.
Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Social conditions.
Ethnicity--Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Electronic books.
HQ1787 .G457 2015
305.40967