In Idi Amin's shadow : women, gender, and militarism in Uganda /

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In Idi Amin;s Shadow is a rich social history examining Ugandan women's complex and sometimes paradoxical relationship to Amin's military state. Based on more than one hundred interviews with women who survived the regime, as well as a wide range of primary sources, this book reveals how t...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Decker, Alicia C. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2014]
Colección:New African histories series.
Temas:
Amin, Idi, > 1925-2003 > Political and social views.
Amin, Idi, > 1925-2003
1900-1999
Women > Uganda > Social conditions > 20th century.
Violence > Uganda > History > 20th century.
Women and the military > Uganda.
Women and war > Uganda.
Militarism > Uganda.
Sex role > Uganda.
Femmes > Ouganda > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Violence > Ouganda > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Femmes et armée > Ouganda.
Femmes et guerre > Ouganda.
Militarisme > Ouganda.
Rôle selon le sexe > Ouganda.
HISTORY > Africa > Central.
Militarism
Political and social views
Sex role
Social conditions
Violence
Women and the military
Women and war
Women > Social conditions
Uganda > Social conditions > 1971-1979.
Ouganda > Conditions sociales > 1971-1979.
Uganda
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: in search of Amin's women
  • Violence, militarism, and masculinity: the making of Idi Amin
  • Gender, performance, and pain: the rise of Amin's dictatorship
  • Of miniskirts and morality: femininity in service of the state
  • An accidental liberation: women on the front lines of the economic war
  • Neither a privilege nor a curse: women and the politics of empowerment
  • Widows without graves: disappearance and the politics of invisibility
  • Violence in the shadows: gender and the collapse of the military state
  • Militant motherhood: women on the front lines of the liberation war
  • Conclusion: gendered legacies of Amin's militarism.

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