Women in Twentieth-Century Africa

Informationen zum Autor Iris Berger is Professor of History, Emerita at the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is the author of South Africa in World History (2009), Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Restoring Women to History, with E. Frances White (1999); Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry, 1900–1980 (1992); and the award-winning Religion and Resistance: East African Kingdoms in the Precolonial Period (1981). She is also the co-editor of African Asylum at a Crossroads: Activism, Expert Testimony and Refugee Rights (2015) and Women and Class in Africa (1986) and a past President of the African Studies Association. Klappentext Explores the paradoxical image of African women as exceptionally oppressed, but also as strong, resourceful and rebellious.During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and to gain a significant voice in local and national politics. This book introduces students to these remarkable women. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Colonizing African families; 2. Confrontation and adaptation; 3. Domesticity and modernization; 4. Mothers of nationalism; 5. The struggle continues; 6. 'Messengers of a new design': marriage, family and sexuality; 7. Women's rights: the second decolonization?; 8. Empowerment and inequality in a new global age; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Iris Berger, Iris (State University of New York Berger, Berger Iris
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.04.2016
• EAN: 9780521517072
• ISBN: 978-0-521-51707-2
• No. of pages: 248
• Series: New Approaches to African History; New Approaches to African Hist
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies, 20th Century, HISTORY / Africa / General, Africa, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / Women, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, African History, Gender studies: women, Gender studies: women and girls