The Women's War of 1929

Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria
2012. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-230-30295-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 278 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 211 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Matera, Marc

Bastian, Misty L

Kent, S Kingsley

Kingsley Kent, Susan

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chronology of Major Events Introduction Pre-and Early Colonial Igbo Life The British View: The Chaos of Igbo Life The Twin Traumas of War and Flu The Nwaobiala of 1925 The Ogu Umunwaanyi The British Suppression of the Women's War  'More Deadly than the Male'  What the Women Wrought Conclusion Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

MARC MATERA Assistant Professor of Modern Britain, British Empire, and World History. He is the author of a number of articles on African and Caribbean intellectuals in Britain.
MISTY L. BASTIAN Professor of Anthropology at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, USA. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Onitsha Igbo society, media and modern magic in southern Nigeria, Nigerian Pentecostalism in the twenty-first century, as well as on British colonialists and their encounters with Igbo-speaking peoples from 1870-1930. 
SUSAN KINGSLEY KENT Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. She is the author of various publications including, most recently,  (2008, 2010); and (2009).