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"I will not eat stone": a women's history of colonial Asante

Jean Marie Allman and Victoria B. Tashjian c2000 © Jean M. Allman
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Series
  • ACLS Fellows’ Publications
ISBN(s)
  • 9780852556412 (paper)
  • 9780852556917 (hardcover)
Subject
  • African
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  • Table of Contents

  • Reviews

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  • Frontmatter
  • Illustrations (page xi)
  • Acknowledgments (page xiii)
  • Glossary of Twi Terms (page xvii)
  • By Way of Introduction (page xxi)
  • 1 The World to Which They Were Born: Women's Life Stories and the Problem of Colonial Chronologies (page 1)
  • 2 "It's Mine" and "It's Ours" Are Not the Same Thing: Marrying and Marriage on a Shifting Colonial Terrain (page 45)
  • 3 Sika Yɛ Mogyal"Money Is Blood"?: Transformations in the Domestic Economy of Childrearing (page 85)
  • 4 "Serving a Man Is Wasted Labor": Women's Conjugal Strategies in a World of Cash and Cocoa (page 133)
  • 5 Making Proper Mothers and Dutiful Wives: Chiefs, Missions, and Order out of Chaos (page 169)
  • By Way of Concluding (page 221)
  • Bibliography (page 227)
  • Index (page 251)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JIH 33.1 (Summer.2002): 159-161 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/16345
AT 49.1 (Spring. 2002): 99-101 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/3157
JWoH 16.3 (Fall. 2004): 213-220 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/172173
AEH 30 (2002): 151-153 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3601611
JAR 57.3 (Autumn. 2001): 345-346 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3631427
JAFH 43.2 (2002): 335-336 http://www.jstor.org/stable/4100527
AAF 100.400 (Jul. 2001): 497-498 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3518595
AFSR 44.3 (Dec. 2001): 142-143 http://www.jstor.org/stable/525631
CJAS 35.2 (2001): 367-369 http://www.jstor.org/stable/486120
AHR 107.3 (June. 2002): 984-985 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/532651
IJAHS 34.2 (2001): 411-412 http://www.jstor.org/stable/3097489
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