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Claiming civic virtue : gendered network memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania /

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shetler, Jan Bender (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2019]
Series:Women in Africa and the diaspora.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Intro; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Gendered Memory as Civic Virtue; Part I. Expanding Regional Networks; 1. Grandmothers' Stories of Civic Virtue in Motion: Early Foundations; 2. Civic Virtue and the Dishonor of Slavery: Women's Memories of the Time of Disasters, 1880s-1910s; Part II. Contracting Colonial Networks; 3. Defense of Women's Virtue: Customary and Ritual Knowledge in the Colonial Era, 1920s-1930s; 4. Failure of Civic Virtue: Domestic Violence and the Loss of Networks, 1930s-1960s; Part III. Reformulating Networks
  • 5. Forming New Communities: Narratives of Civic Virtue in Religious Networks, 1940s-1950s6. Passing on the Legacy: Discourses of Civic Virtue in Postcolonial Gendered Networks, 1960s-Present; Notes; Bibliography; Index