"Wicked" women and the reconfiguration of gender in Africa, edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl A. McCurdy

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"Wicked" women and the reconfiguration of gender in Africa, edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl A. McCurdy

Statement of responsibility

edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl A. McCurdy

Instantiates

• "Wicked" women and the reconfiguration of gender in Africa

Publication

• Portsmouth, NH, Heinemann, Oxford, James Currey, Cape Town, David Philip, 2001, ©2001

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Carrier category

volume

Carrier category code

• nc

Carrier MARC source

rdacarrier

Content category

text

Content type code

• txt

Content type MARC source

rdacontent

Contents

Women, marriage, divorce and the emerging Colonial state in Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1892-1904 / Judith Byfield -- "She thinks she's like a man": marriage and (de)constructing gender identity in Colonial Buha, Western Tanzania, 1943-1960 / Margot Lovett -- Wayward women and useless men : contest and change in gender relations in Ado-Odo / Andrea Cornwall -- "Gone to their second husbands": marital metaphors and conjugal contracts in the Gambia's female garden sector / Richard A. Schroeder -- Dancing women and Colonial men: the Nwaobiala of 1925 / Misty L. Bastian -- Rounding up spinsters : gender chaos and unmarried women in Colonial Asante / Jean Allman -- "My daughter...belongs to the government now" : marriage, Maasai, and the Tanzanian state / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- Gender and the cultural construction of "bad women" in the development of Kampala-Kibuga, 1900-1962 / Nakanyike B. Musisi -- You have left me wandering about: Basotho women and the culture of mobility / David B. Coplan -- Urban threats : Manyema women, low fertility, and venereal diseases in Tanganyika, 1926-1936 / Sheryl A. McCurdy -- Negotiating social independence : the challenges of career pursuits for Igbo women in Postcolonial Nigeria / Philomena E. Okeke -- Politics of difference and women's associations in Niger: of "prostitutes," the public, and politics / Barbara M. Cooper -- "Wicked women" and "respectable ladies" : reconfiguring gender on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1936-1964 / Jane L. Parpart -- Gender and profiteering: Ghana's market women as devoted mothers and "human vampire bats" / Gracia Clark

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44425372

Dimensions

25 cm.

Extent

xv, 325 pages

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9780852556955

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(Currey : cloth)

Lccn

00040882

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unmediated

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rdamedia

Media type code

• n

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illustrations, maps

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http://search.mel.org/iii/encore/record/C__Rb12953353