History of African Motherhood - The Case of Uganda, 700-1900

Informationen zum Autor Rhiannon Stephens is Assistant Professor of African History at Columbia University. Her work has been published in scholarly journals such as Past and Present and the Journal of African History. She received her PhD in history from Northwestern University. Klappentext This is the first book-length treatment of the history of motherhood in pre-colonial Africa. Zusammenfassung This is the first book-length treatment of the history of motherhood in pre-colonial Africa. This book takes a new approach to longue duree African history through a focus on a highly gendered social institution! and changes our understanding of social and political organization in a region depicted as intensely patriarchal. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Writing pre-colonial African history: words and other historical fragments; 2. Motherhood in North Nyanza! eighth through the twelfth century; 3. Consolidation and adaptation: the politics of motherhood in early Buganda and South Kyoga! thirteenth through the fifteenth century; 4. Mothering the kingdoms: Buganda! Busoga! and East Kyoga! sixteenth through the eighteenth century; 5. Contesting the authority of mothers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Rhiannon Stephens, Rhiannon (Columbia University Stephens
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2013
• EAN: 9781107030800
• ISBN: 978-1-107-03080-0
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 238 mm x 20 mm
• Series: African Studies; African Studies; African Studies (Hardcover); African Studies, Series Number
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Non-fiction book