C. Decker

Mobilizing Zanzibari Women (eBook, PDF)

The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The experiences of African women in the era before independence remain a woefully understudied facet of African history. This innovative and carefully argued study thus adds tremendously to our understanding of colonial history by focusing on women's education, professionalization, and political mobilization in the East African islands of Zanzibar.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. November 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781137472632
• Artikelnr.: 44915615

Autorenporträt

Corrie Decker is an Assistant Professor of History at University of California, Davis, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Gendered Reading of Respectability, Development, and Nationalism 1. Imposing a Regime of Respectability 2. Creating a Culture of Development 3. Writing Self-Respect into Respectability 4. Integrating Respectability, Self-Respect, and Development 5. Discovering the Women's Movement