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Gendered Colonialisms in African History »

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Authors: Tristram Hunt, Liu, Quataert
ISBN-13: 9780631204763, ISBN-10: 0631204768
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Wiley, John & Sons, Incorporated
Date Published: June 1997
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: Tristram Hunt

Book Synopsis

Focusing on African and European women and men, five articles explore generational conflict, connections between representation and violence, the incorporation of gendered power into state formation, memory and forgetting, and consumption and commodity cultures.

Table of Contents

Editorial
Abstracts
Introduction1
'Ngaitana (I will circumcise myself)': The Gender and Generational Politics of the 1956 Ban on Clitoridectomy in Meru, Kenya16
'Cocky' Hahn and the 'Black Venus': The Making of a Native Commissioner in South West Africa, 1915-4642
'Not Welfare or Uplift Work': White Women, Masculinity and Policing in South Africa71
Love Magic and Political Morality in Central Madagascar, 1875-199094
'Fork Up and Smile': Marketing, Colonial Knowledge and the Female Subject in Zimbabwe118
Glossary135
Index137

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