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Informationen zum Autor Judith A. Byfield is a professor of history at Cornell University. She is the author of The Bluest Hands: A Social and Economic History of Women Dyers in Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1890-1940 and coeditor of Global Africa: Into the Twenty-First Century, Africa and World War II, and Gendering the African Diaspora: Women, Culture, and Historical Change in the Caribbean and Nigerian Hinterland. Klappentext In this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making, Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in postwar Nigeria. She illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism, offering new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state. Zusammenfassung In this finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making, Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in postwar Nigeria. She illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism, offering new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Abbreviations Introduction Chapter 1. The Birth and Demise of a Nation: The Egba United Government Chapter 2. Abeokuta’s Centenary: Masculinity and Nationalist Politics in a Colonial Space Chapter 3. Race, Nation, and Politics in the Interwar Period Chapter 4. Women, Rice, and War: Economic Crisis in Wartime Abeokuta Chapter 5. “Freedom from Want”: Politics, Protest, and the Postwar Interlude Chapter 6. Daughters of Tinubu: Crisis and Confrontation in Abeokuta Conclusion Notes Bibliography Index
