Gendering ethnicity in African women's lives / [electronic resource]
edited by Jan Bender Shetler.
- 1 online resource (349 pages).
- Women in Africa and the diaspora .
- Women in Africa and the diaspora. .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Women's alternative practices of ethnicity / Jan Bender Shetler -- Part One. Forming interethnic alliances. Gendering the history of social memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania, as an antidote to tribal history / Jan Bender Shetler -- Living ethnicity: gender, livelihood, and ethnic identity in Mozambique / Heidi Gengenbach -- Part Two. Constructing new forms of identity. Re-reading the 1835 "Fingo Emancipation": women and ethnicity in the colonial archive / Poppy Fry -- New African marriage and panethnic politics in segregationist South Africa / Meghan Healy-Clancy -- Women and non-ethnic politics in East Africa, 1934-1947 / Ethan R. Sanders -- Part Three. Promoting gendered domains of ethnicity. Gender and the limits of "Ndebeleness," 1910-1960s: Abezansi churchwomen's domestic and associational alliances / Wendy Urban-Mead -- "Women were not supposed to fight": the gendered uses of martial and moral Zuluness during uDlame, 1990-1994 / Jill E. Kelly -- Sorting and suffering: social classification in post-genocide Rwanda / Jennie E. Burnet -- Part Four. Performing gendered ethnic power. Matriliny, masculinity, and contested gendered definitions of ethnic identity and power in nineteenth-century southeastern Nigeria / Ndubueze L. Mbah -- Shaming men, performing power: female authority in Zimbabwe and Tanzania on the eve of colonial rule / Heike I. Schmidt -- Muslim women legislators in postcolonial Kenya: between gender, ethnicity, and religion / Ousseina Alidou -- Afterword: Reflections on gender, ethnicity, and power / Dorothy L. Hodgson.