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Title: WOMEN IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY AFRICA
By: Iris Berger
Format: Paperback

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ISBN 10: 0521741211
ISBN 13: 9780521741217
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Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS
Pub. date: 25 April, 2016
Series: New Approaches to African History 10
Pages: 244
Description: Explores the paradoxical image of African women as exceptionally oppressed, but also as strong, resourceful and rebellious.
Synopsis: During a turbulent colonial and postcolonial century, African women struggled to control their own marital, sexual and economic lives and to gain a significant voice in local and national politics. This book introduces many remarkable women, who organized religious and political movements, fought in anti-colonial wars, ran away to escape arranged marriages, and during the 1990s began successful campaigns for gender parity in national legislatures. The book also explores the apparent paradox in the conflicting images of African women - as singularly oppressed and dominated by men, but also as strong, resourceful, and willing to challenge governments and local traditions to protect themselves and their families. Understanding the tension between women's power and their oppression, between their strength and their vulnerability, offers a new lens for understanding the relationship between the state and society in the twentieth century.
Illustrations: 7 b/w illus. 3 maps
Publication: UK
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Returns: Returnable
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