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Informationen zum Autor Emily Lynn Osborn is an associate professor of history at University of Chicago. Klappentext In "Our New Husbands Are Here "Emily Lynn Osborn makes a significant contribution to our understanding of the role of gender in precolonial and colonial Africa. Well written and meticulously researched, this important book shows that women assumed a critical if understudied role in the precolonial state of Bate, in present-day Guinea. Osborn also reveals that the gender biases implicit in the French colonial project radically diminished women's political roles and created new opportunities and burdens for colonized men. By investigating the relationship between household-making and state- making, "Our New Husbands Are Here "generates a nuanced perspective on power in precolonial and colonial Africa and shows that previous studies have overlooked the shifting role of women and the domestic sphere in West African political history. Zusammenfassung Investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization? This book addresses this question by exploring the relationship of the household to the state.
