Author : Nina Emma Mba
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783318608
Nigerian Women Mobilized
Nina Emma Mba
Nigerian Women Mobilized
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For Women and the Nation
Cheryl Johnson-Odim,Nina Emma Mba
Author : Cheryl Johnson-Odim,Nina Emma Mba
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0252066138
For Women and the Nation by Cheryl Johnson-Odim,Nina Emma Mba Pdf
Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti was a Nigerian feminist who fought for suffrage and equal rights for her countrywomen long before the second wave of the women's movement in the United States. She also joined the struggle for Nigerian independence as an activist in the anticolonial movement.For Women and the Nation is the story of this courageous woman, one of a handful of full-length biographies of African women activists. It will be welcomed by students of women's studies, African history, and biography, as well as by opponents of the Nigerian military regime that has held one of her sons, Dr. Beko Ransome-Kuti, in solitary confinement since August 1995.CHERYL JOHNSON-ODIM, chair and associate professor of history at Loyola University in Chicago, is coeditor of Expanding the Boundaries of Women's History. NINA EMMA MBA, senior lecturer in history at the University of Lagos, Nigeria, is the author of Nigerian Women Mobilized and Ayo Rosijc.
Nigerian Women Mobilized
Nina Emma Mba
Author : Nina Emma Mba
Publisher : Institute of International Studies University of California
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X000537825
Nigerian Women Mobilized by Nina Emma Mba Pdf
Women in African Colonial Histories
Susan Geiger,Jean Allman,Nakanyike Musisi
Author : Susan Geiger,Jean Allman,Nakanyike Musisi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0253215072
Women in African Colonial Histories by Susan Geiger,Jean Allman,Nakanyike Musisi Pdf
While recognising the inherent violence and brutality of the colonial encounter, the essays in this anthology show that African women were not simply the hapless victims of European political rule.
Women and Revolution
Marie Josephine Diamond
Author : Marie Josephine Diamond
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401590723
Women and Revolution by Marie Josephine Diamond Pdf
Taking its starting point from women's contributions to the French revolution, this important anthology goes far beyond any particular historical, European or American context and expands its scope in space and time to an all-inclusive global theme, namely the contributions of radical women towards an ever-changing world and its revolutionary transformations everywhere. The superbly edited essays by diverse contributors from various continents and disciplines explore a wide platform of women's revolutionary involvements and elucidate the broad range of contributions by women scholars, scientists and activists to movements of social transformation, as well as to a reexamination of established methods of cultural analysis from enlightened liberalism to Marxism. The contributions of women scholars and activists from Africa, Asia and Latin America are particularly significant in that they transcend and expand European/North American feminism as relevant primarily to its own socio-cultural context and focus on women acting in terms of their own non-Western traditions and cultures, that is, on non-Western models based on indigenous strategies of social transformation. This rich anthology shuns any postulation of a single global model for revolution. Yet, despite the emergence of a `problematic relationship between Western or Western educated theorists and the causes of the oppressed', women's diverse social, cultural and historical experiences and strategies are united in this edition, as in their common causes, as emphasized by the following statement in the introduction: `the female body has become ... a privileged site for social analysis in the context of international capitalism as well as in the critique of traditional socialism.' Sabine Jell-Bahlsen, Ogbuide Films Women and Revolution covers an enormous socio-historical space, four continents - Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America – and quite a few countries within them. This huge field of human experience is looked at from the focal point which runs explicitly and implicitly through all nineteen chapters: the active if not revolutionary role women have played individually and collectively in various determining social situations, a role regularly suppressed by the coercive power of institutionalized domination. The impetus for this endeavor was the commemoration of the bicentennial of the French Revolution, an occasion to take an in-depth look at its less obvious agendas, through a focus on the activity of women, and on Olympe de Gouges in particular. But as Olympe de Gouges became acquainted with Mr. Guillotine, the considerable role of women became suppressed not only actually but as a kind of damnatio memoriae which the old Romans had already invented. As this work shows, there have been multiple forms and contents through which women have taken history into their own hands and have participated in emancipatory struggles throughout the world. They are at their best in their use of the resources of local village traditions, of dense social contexts, of mutual aid and in turning such grassroots resources into radical democratic struggles for the future. A fascinating and timely book!. Wolf-Dieter Narr, Freie Universität Berlin The vital role played by women in struggles for social transformation has scarcely been appreciated, and with the sense of defeat that hangs over the revolutionary project, stands to be further forgotten. That is why the publication of Women and Revolution is both welcome and necessary – on intellectual and scholarly grounds, but also because these are stories which have to be told if we are to resume the march toward a better world. Joel Kovel, Bard College
The Third Wave of Historical Scholarship on Nigeria
Saheed Aderinto,Paul Osifodunrin
Author : Saheed Aderinto,Paul Osifodunrin
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781443847124
The Third Wave of Historical Scholarship on Nigeria by Saheed Aderinto,Paul Osifodunrin Pdf
This festschrift in honor of Professor Ayodeji Olukoju, one of Nigeria’s brightest historians, brings together scholarship representative of the third wave of historical scholarship on Nigeria. Olukoju, a pioneering historian of Nigerian maritime history, also produced significant revisionist scholarship in the areas of economic, urban, and infrastructure history. The contributions in this volume epitomize the groundbreaking directions of his career; they are marked by a search for new explanations and venture into uncharted terrain in Nigerian history. Aside from its critical engagement of Olukoju’s impressive scholarship, this volume presents chapters on such underresearched aspects of Nigerian history as sexuality, children and youth, crime, memory, and HIV/AIDS. It offers historical explanations of a host of development challenges confronting Nigeria, Africa’s most populous country, and resilient reinterpretations of the place of history in nation building. The contributors, pioneering experts in their various subfields, bring their research and teaching experience to the fore and deploy neglected data as they unfold topics that shed light on Nigeria, its peoples, and cultures. They show that history, both as a daily practice and as an academic endeavor, remains vital as Africans seek solutions to the continent’s critical development challenges.
The Great Upheaval
Judith A. Byfield
Author : Judith A. Byfield
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9780821446904
The Great Upheaval by Judith A. Byfield Pdf
This social and intellectual history of women’s political activism in postwar Nigeria reveals the importance of gender to the study of nationalism and poses new questions about Nigeria’s colonial past and independent future. In the years following World War II, the women of Abeokuta, Nigeria, staged a successful tax revolt that led to the formation first of the Abeokuta Women’s Union and then of Nigeria’s first national women’s organization, the Nigerian Women’s Union, in 1949. These organizations became central to a new political vision, a way for women across Nigeria to define their interests, desires, and needs while fulfilling the obligations and responsibilities of citizenship. In The Great Upheaval, Judith A. Byfield has crafted a finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation making that not only tells a story of women’s postwar activism but also grounds it in a nuanced account of the complex tax system that generated the “upheaval.” Byfield captures the dynamism of women’s political engagement in Nigeria’s postwar period and illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism. She thus offers new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state. Ultimately, she challenges readers to problematize the collapse of her female subjects' greatest aspiration, universal franchise, when the country achieved independence in 1960.
New Dawn for African Women
Michael Muonwe
Author : Michael Muonwe
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2016-12-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781524562892
New Dawn for African Women by Michael Muonwe Pdf
The need for renegotiation of the place and role of women in the family, the Church, and the society cannot be any more urgent than now, especially as people are more aware of the devastating effects of the evils of inequality, discrimination, and oppression. It is a pity that the excellent qualities of bravery, industry, resilience, and perseverance historically attributed to African women, with which they negotiated for better place in the family, the Church, and the society, have been manipulated to serve as instruments for their denigration. The problem is that the patriarchal articulations of gender relations from the western world that entered Africa through colonialism, Christianity, western education and globalization allied themselves with the macho elements in African culture, and institutionalized the oppression of women; a move that women have always resisted both overtly and covertly. But how long could they hang on? This book provides exceptional and critical assessment of these issues, especially from the perspective of the Igbo society of Nigeria. Apart from assessing the strengths and weaknesses of the efforts made by women themselves to surmount these challenges, it also explores how the autochthonous values of the traditional culture could integrate with Christian values to enthrone gender equality in the society. Fr Muonwe demonstrated in this present publication his pastoral zeal for justice especially on the predicaments of women in African nay Igbo society. He regrets as it were that the African (Igbo) traditional society is still far from realizing the Christian gospel ideal of dignity and equality of human person because of the obvious environment that is strictly androcentric and carefully crafted in patriarchal hegemony I thank Fr Muonwe for this timely publication especially for many Igbo Christian communities today experiencing crisis in several aspects of our culture I hope the Bishops, the Priests, the Religious and Laity will find in this present work a rare and indispensable treasure for solutions to our pastoral predicaments. Rev. Fr. Prof. Anthony B. C. Chiegboka. New Dawn for African Women is encyclopaedic in content and daunting in its wealth of documentation [It] is a well-written book. The contents covered much more than Igbo women, or gender issues. It addressed such other issues as Igbo cosmology, Igbo concept of life and death, the history of Christianity in Igboland and Igbo social anthropology, among others. It is a book, which every Nigerian, especially the Igbo, should read. The book is inspirational and provocative in the extreme; it is original and displays learning lightly carried. One cannot but return to it over and over again after the first reading. I very strongly recommend it to the Nigerian and African reading public. C. Ego Uzoezie (Ph.D.)
Writing Women’s History
Karen M. Offen,Ruth Roach Pierson,Jane Rendall
Author : Karen M. Offen,Ruth Roach Pierson,Jane Rendall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1991-08-23
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781349215126
Writing Women’s History by Karen M. Offen,Ruth Roach Pierson,Jane Rendall Pdf
Five essays address such themes as the relationship between feminist history and women's history, the use of the concept of "experience", the development of the history of gender, demographic history and women's history and the importance of post-structuralism to women's history.
The Politics of Motherhood
Alexis Jetter,Annelise Orleck,Diana Taylor
Author : Alexis Jetter,Annelise Orleck,Diana Taylor
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Motherhood
ISBN : 087451780X
The Politics of Motherhood by Alexis Jetter,Annelise Orleck,Diana Taylor Pdf
Essays and interviews explode the myth of apolitical motherhood by showing how 20th century women have politicized their role as mothers in a wide range of social contexts.
The Women's War of 1929
Marc Matera,Misty L. Bastian,S. Kingsley Kent,Susan Kingsley Kent
Author : Marc Matera,Misty L. Bastian,S. Kingsley Kent,Susan Kingsley Kent
Publisher : Springer
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230356061
The Women's War of 1929 by Marc Matera,Misty L. Bastian,S. Kingsley Kent,Susan Kingsley Kent Pdf
In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame.
The Advance of African Capital
Tom G. Forrest
Author : Tom G. Forrest
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0813915627
The Advance of African Capital by Tom G. Forrest Pdf
Combining ethnographic and historical perspectives, Tom Forrest examines the strategies and patterns of development employed by business people from the colonial period to the present. Through a series of highly readable case studies, he provides a broad picture of the various forms of capital accumulation and sectoral advances in trade, transport, manufacture, agriculture, finance and other services. These are set within the context of changing economic opportunities, shifts in power and policy, relations with foreign capital, and attitudes towards private business and the state.
Readings in Gender in Africa
Andrea Cornwall,International African Institute
Author : Andrea Cornwall,International African Institute
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-02-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0253217407
Readings in Gender in Africa by Andrea Cornwall,International African Institute Pdf
Readings in Gender in Africa collects the most important critical and theoretical writings on how gender issues have transformed contemporary views of Africa. Scholarship from North America, Europe, and Africa is represented in this comprehensive volume. A synthetic introduction by Andrea Cornwall discusses efforts to include women in research about Africa. The volume not only shows how gender relations have been constructed on the African continent but reflects the changes in approach and inquiry that have been brought about as scholars consider gender identities and difference in their work. Specific themes covered here include the contestation and representation of gender, femininity and masculinity, livelihoods and lifeways, gender and religion, gender and culture, and gender and governance. Readers from across the landscape of African studies will find this an essential sourcebook. Published in association with the International African Institute, London
Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History
Toyin Falola,Saheed Aderinto
Author : Toyin Falola,Saheed Aderinto
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781580463584
Nigeria, Nationalism, and Writing History by Toyin Falola,Saheed Aderinto Pdf
The book traces the history of writing about Nigeria since the nineteenth century, with an emphasis on the rise of nationalist historiography and the leading themes. The second half of the twentieth century saw the publication of massive amounts of literature on Nigeria by Nigerian and non-Nigerian historians. This volume reflects on that literature, focusing on those works by Nigerians in thecontext of the rise and decline of African nationalist historiography. Given the diminishing share in the global output of literature on Africa by African historians, it has become crucial to reintroduce Africans into historicalwriting about Africa. As the authors attempt here to rescue older voices, they also rehabilitate a stale historiography by revisiting the issues, ideas, and moments that produced it. This revivalism also challenges Nigerian historians of the twenty-first century to study the nation in new ways, to comprehend its modernity, and to frame a new set of questions on Nigeria's future and globalization. In spite of current problems in Nigeria and its universities, that historical scholarship on Nigeria (and by extension, Africa) has come of age is indisputable. From a country that struggled for Western academic recognition in the 1950s to one that by the 1980s had emerged as one of the most studied countries in Africa, Nigeria is not only one of the early birthplaces of modern African history, but has also produced members of the first generation of African historians whose contributions to the development and expansion of modern African history is undeniable. Like their counterparts working on other parts of the world, these scholars have been sensitive to the need to explore virtually all aspects of Nigerian history. The book highlights the careers of some of Nigeria's notable historians of the first and second generation. Toyin Falola is Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Saheed Aderinto is Assistant Professor of History at Western Carolina University.
The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories
Janell Hobson
Author : Janell Hobson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2021-03-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780429516726
The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories by Janell Hobson Pdf
In the social and cultural histories of women and feminism, Black women have long been overlooked or ignored. The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories is an impressive and comprehensive reference work for contemporary scholarship on the cultural histories of Black women across the diaspora spanning different eras from ancient times into the twenty-first century. Comprising over 30 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Companion is divided into five parts: A fragmented past, an inclusive future Contested histories, subversive memories Gendered lives, racial frameworks Cultural shifts, social change Black identities, feminist formations Within these sections, a diverse range of women, places, and issues are explored, including ancient African queens, Black women in early modern European art and culture, enslaved Muslim women in the antebellum United States, Sally Hemings, Phillis Wheatley, Black women writers in early twentieth-century Paris, Black women, civil rights, South African apartheid, and sexual violence and resistance in the United States in recent history. The Routledge Companion to Black Women’s Cultural Histories is essential reading for students and researchers in Gender Studies, History, Africana Studies, and Cultural Studies.