Women in African Colonial Histories

Acknowledgments ix Women in African Colonial Histories: An Introduction 1(18) Jean Allman Susan Geiger Nakanyike Musisi PART ONE: ENCOUNTERS AND ENGAGEMENTS ``What My Heart Wanted'': Gendered Stories of Early Colonial Encounters in Southern Mozambique 19(29) Heidi Gengenbach Dynastic Daughters: Three Royal Kwena Women and E. L. Price of the London Missionary Society, 1853--1881 48(23) Wendy Urban-Mead Colonial Midwives and Modernizing Childbirth in French West Africa 71(24) Jane Turrittin PART TWO: PERCEPTIONS AND REPRESENTATIONS The Politics of Perception or Perception as Politics? Colonial and Missionary Representations of Baganda Women, 1900--1945 95(21) Nakanyike Musisi ``The Woman in Question'': Marriage and Identity in the Colonial Courts of Northern Ghana, 1907-1954 116(28) Sean Hawkins Colonialism, Education, and Gender Relations in the Belgian Congo: The Evolue Case 144(20) Gertrude Mianda Virgin Territory? Travel and Migration by African Women in Twentieth-Century Southern Africa 164(27) Teresa Barnes ``When in the White Man's Town'': Zimbabwean Women Remember Chibeura 191(28) Lynette A. Jackson PART THREE: POWER RECONFIGURED/POWER CONTESTED Queen Mothers and Good Government in Buganda: The Loss of Women's Political Power in Nineteenth-Century East Africa 219(18) Holly Hanson Marrying and Marriage on a Shifting Terrain: Reconfigurations of Power and Authority in Early Colonial Asante 237(23) Victoria B. Tashjian Jean Allman ``Vultures of the Marketplace'': Southeastern Nigerian Women and Discourses of the Ogu Umunwaanyi (Women's War) of 1929 260(22) Misty L. Bastian ``Emancipate Your Husbands!'' Women and Nationalism in Guinea, 1953--1958 282(23) Elizabeth Schmidt Guerrilla Girls and Women in the Zimbabwean National Liberation Struggle 305(22) Tanya Lyons Contributors 327(4) Index 331