TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berger,Iris
TI  - Women in twentieth-century Africa
T2  - New approaches to African history
SN  - 9780521517072
AV  - HQ1787 .B473 2016
U1  - 305.409609/04 23
KW  -  
KW  - Women
KW  - Africa
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women in the professions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Feminism
KW  - fast
KW  - Frau
KW  - gnd
KW  - Soziale Situation
KW  - Afrika
KW  - Afrique
KW  - rero
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-225) and index; Colonizing African families -- Confrontation and adaptation -- Domesticity and modernization -- Mothers of nationalism -- The struggle continues -- "Messengers of a new design": marriage, family and sexuality -- Women's rights: the second decolonization? -- Empowerment and inequality in a new global age -- Contradictions and challenges
N2  - "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." -- Publisher's description
ER  -