"Wicked" Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa

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Introduction - and the reconfiguration of gender in Africa, Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl McCurdy. Part 1 Contesting conjugality: women, marriage, divorce and the emerging colonial state in Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1892-1904, Judith Byfield she thinks she's like a man - marriage and deconstructing gender identity in colonial Buha, Western Tanzania, 1943-1960, Margot Lovett wayward and useless men - contest and change in gender relations in Ado-Odo, South West Nigeria, Andrea Cornwall gone to their second husbands - marital metaphors and conjugal contracts in The Gambia's female garden sector, Richard A. Schroeder II. Part 2 Confronting authority: dancing and colonial men - the Nwaobiala of 1925, Misty L. Bastian rounding up spinsters - gender chaos and unmarried in colonial Asante, Jean Allman my daughter ... belongs to the government now - marriage, Maasai and the Tanzania state, Dorothy L. Hodgson. Part 3 Taking spaces/making spaces: gender and the cultural construction of bad women in the development of Kampala-Kibuga, 1900-62, Nakanyike B. Musisi you have left me wandering about - Basotho and the culture of mobility, David B. Coplan urban threats - Manyema women, low fertility and venereal diseases in British colonial Tanganyika, 1926-36, Sheryl McCurdy negotiating social independence - the challenges of career pursuits for Igbo in post-colonial Nigeria, Philomena E. Okeke. Part 4 Negotiating difference: the politics of difference and women's associations in Niger - of prostitutes, the public and politics, Barbara M. Cooper wicked women and respectable ladies - reconfiguring gender on the Zambian copperbelt, 1936-64, Jane L. Parpat gender and profiteering -Ghana's market as devoted mothers and human vampire bats, Gracia Clark.

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