Table of Contents

Preliminary Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction Jean Allman, Susan Geiger, and Nakanyike Musisi

Part 1. Encounters and Engagements
1. "What My Heart Wanted": Gendered Stories of Early Colonial Encounters in Southern Mozambique Heidi Gengenbach
2. Dynastic Daughters: Three Royal Kwena Women and E. L. Price of the London Missionary Society, 1853-1881 Wendy Urban-Mead
3. Colonial Midwives and Modernizing Childbirth in French West Africa Jane Turrittin

Part 2. Perceptions and Representations
4. The Politics of Perception of Perception as Politics?: Colonial and Missionary Representations of Baganda Women, 1900-1945 Nakanyike Musisi
5. "The Woman in Question": Marriage and Identity in the Colonial Courts of Northern Ghana, 1907-1954 Sean Hawkins
6. Colonialism, Education, and Gender Relations in the Belgian Congo: The Évolué Case Gertrude Mianda
7. Virgin Territory?: Travel and Migration by African Women in Twentieth Century Southern Africa Teresa Barnes
8. "When in the White Man's Town": Zimbabwean Women Remember Chibeura Lynette Jackson

Part 3. Power Reconfigured/Power Contested
9. Queen Mothers and Good Government in Buganda: The Loss of Women's Political Power in Nineteenth Century East Africa Holly Hanson
10. Marrying and Marriage on a Shifting Terrain: Reconfigurations of Power and Authority in Early Colonial Asante Victoria Tashjian and Jean Allman
11. "Vultures of the Marketplace": Southeastern Nigerian Women and Discourses of the Ogu Umunwaayi (Women's War) of 1929 Misty Bastian
12. "Emancipate Your Husbands!": Women and Nationalism in Guinea, 1953-1958 Elizabeth Schmidt
13. Guerrilla Girls and Women in the Zimbabwean National Liberation Struggle Tanya Lyons

Afterword Susan Geiger
Contributors
Index

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About the Author

Jean Allman teaches African History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is author of The Quills of the Porcupine: Asante Nationalism in an Emergent Ghana and co-author (with Victoria Tashjian) of "I Will Not Eat Stone": A Women's History of Colonial Asante. Her research on gender, colonialism, and social change has appeared in numerous journals.

Susan Geiger is Professor Emeritus of Women's Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is author of TANU Women: Gender and Culture Change in the Making of Tanganyikan Nationalism, 1955-65. She has published over a dozen articles on African women's history and the uses of life history in historical research. She serves on the editorial board of SIGNS.

Nakanyike Musisi is Director of Makerere Institute of Social Research at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. She has authored many chapters and articles on Baganda women. Her research interests include state formation, customary law, education, and environmental issues.

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