African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-50
African Womanhood in Colonial Kenya, 1900-50

Author: Tabitha Kanogo

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0852554451

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Within a broad analysis of colonial oppurtunities for physical, social and educational mobility, Kanogo shows how African and British male authorities tried, with uncertain opinions and from different perspectives, to control female initiatives, and how, to very varying degrees, women managed to achieve increasing measures of control over their own lives. North America: Ohio U Press; Kenya: EAEP

Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai

Author: Tabitha Kanogo

Publisher: Ohio University Press

Published: 2020-04-07

Total Pages: 140

ISBN-13: 0821440713

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Wangari Muta Maathai is one of Africa’s most celebrated female activists. Originally trained as a scientist in Kenya and abroad, Professor Maathai returned to her home country of Kenya with a renewed political consciousness. There, she began her long career as an activist, campaigning for environmental and social justice while speaking out against government corruption. In 2004, Maathai was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for her leadership of the Green Belt Movement, a conservation effort that resulted in the restoration of African forests decimated during the colonial era. In this biography, Tabitha Kanogo follows Wangari Maathai from her modest, rural Kenyan upbringing to her rise as a national figure campaigning for environmental and ecological conservation, sustainable development, democracy, human rights, gender equality, and the eradication of poverty until her death in 2011.

Women in Twentieth-Century Africa
Women in Twentieth-Century Africa

Author: Iris Berger

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-04-26

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 0521517079

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Explores the paradoxical image of African women as exceptionally oppressed, but also as strong, resourceful and rebellious.

A Companion to Gender History
A Companion to Gender History

Author: Teresa A. Meade

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 691

ISBN-13: 0470692820

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A Companion to Gender History surveys the history of womenaround the world, studies their interaction with men in genderedsocieties, and looks at the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. An extensive survey of the history of women around the world,their interaction with men, and the role of gender in shaping humanbehavior over thousands of years. Discusses family history, the history of the body andsexuality, and cultural history alongside women’s history andgender history. Considers the importance of class, region, ethnicity, race andreligion to the formation of gendered societies. Contains both thematic essays and chronological-geographicessays. Gives due weight to pre-history and the pre-modern era as wellas to the modern era. Written by scholars from across the English-speaking world andscholars for whom English is not their first language.

African Womanhood and Incontinent Bodies
African Womanhood and Incontinent Bodies

Author: Kathomi Gatwiri

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-06-13

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 981130565X

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This book reveals the structures of poverty, power, patriarchy and imperialistic health policies that underpin what the World Health Organization calls the “hidden disease” of vaginal fistulas in Africa. By employing critical feminist and post-colonial perspectives, it shows how “leaking black female bodies” are constructed, ranked, stratified and marginalised in global maternal health care, and explains why women in Africa are at risk of developing vaginal fistulas and then having adequate treatment delayed or denied. Drawing on face-to-face, in-depth interviews with 30 Kenyan women, it paints a rare social portrait of the heartbreaking challenges for Kenyan women living with this most profound gender-related health issue – an experience of shame, taboo and abjection with severe implications for women’s wellbeing, health and sexuality. In absolutely groundbreaking depth, this book shows why research on vaginal fistulas must incorporate feminist understandings of bodily experience to inform future practices and knowledge.

Women in African Colonial Histories
Women in African Colonial Histories

Author: Susan Geiger

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2002-04

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 9780253215079

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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.

The Women of Colonial Latin America
The Women of Colonial Latin America

Author: Susan Migden Socolow

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-16

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 0521196655

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A highly readable survey of women's experiences in Latin America from the late fifteenth to the early nineteenth centuries.

Women in African History
Women in African History

Author: Patricia W. Romero

Publisher:

Published: 2012-10

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 9781558765764

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This is a survey of the roles women have played in Africa south of the Sahara, from the Queen of Sheba in Ethiopia to the present-day presidents of Liberia and Malawi. Romero discusses education and religion; the occult and power; diseases and treatment; women and war; and women's increasing presence on the political stage, including their roles as environmental activists. Drawing on the latest research, the book comprises documents, travellers' accounts, and case studies in its coverage of pre-colonial, colonial, and post-colonial Africa.