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African encounters with domesticity
Karen Tranberg Hansen
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Frontmatter
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List of Tables (page vii)
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Preface (page ix)
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List of Contributors (page xi)
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Introduction: Domesticity in Africa (Karen Tranberg Hansen, page 1)
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Part 1: Varieties of African Domesticity
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1. Home-Made Hegemony: Modernity, Domesticity, and Colonialism in South Africa (Jean and John L. Comaroff, page 37)
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2. Harem Domesticity in Kano, Nigeria (Beverly B. Mack, page 75)
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3. Civilized Servants: Child Fosterage and Training for Status among the Glebo of Liberia (Mary H. Moran, page 98)
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4. Domestic Science Training in Colonial Yorubaland, Nigeria (LaRay Denzer, page 116)
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Part 2: Domestic Encounters
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5. Colonial Fairy Tales and the Knife and Fork Doctrine in the Heart of Africa (Nancy Rose Hunt, page 143)
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6. Colonial and Missionary Education: Women and Domesticity in Uganda, 1900-1945 (Nakanyike B. Musisi, page 172)
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7. "Educating Eve": The Women's Club Movement and Political Consciousness among Rural African Women in Southern Rhodesia, 1950-1980 (Sita Ranchod-Nilsson, page 195)
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Part 3. Race, Class, Gender, and Domestic Work
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8. Race, Sex, and Domestic Labor: The Question of African Female Servants in Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1939 (Elizabeth Schmidt, page 221)
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9. Men at Work in the Tanzanian Home: How Did They Ever Learn? (Janet M. Bujra, page 242)
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10. Cookstoves and Charcoal Braziers: Culinary Practices, Gender, and Class in Zambia (Karen Tranberg Hansen, page 266)
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11. Creches, Titias, and Mothers: Working Women and Child Care in Mozambique (Kathleen Sheldon, page 290)
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Index (page 311)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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AFSR | 38.1 (Apr. 1995) 169-171 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-0206%28199504%2938%3A1%3C169%3AAEWD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-4 |
IJAHS | 27.1 (1994) 201-203 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-7882%281994%2927%3A1%3C201%3AAEWD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-Q |
AE | 22.1 (Feb. 1995) 200-201 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-0496%28199502%2922%3A1%3C200%3AAEWD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1 |
Man | 29.1 (Mar. 1994) 205-206 | http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-1496%28199403%292%3A29%3A1%3C205%3AAEWD%3E2.0.CO%3B2-M |
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Published: c1992
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
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