The Women's War of 1929 Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria

by Kingsley Kent, Susan; Bastian, Misty L.; Matera, Marc

• ISBN13: 9780230302952
• ISBN10: 0230302955
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in whatis known as the Women's War. This bookbrings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame.

Author Biography

Marc Matera is Assistant Professor of Modern Britain, British Empire, and World History at Northern Arizona University, USA. He is the author of a number of articles on African and Caribbean intellectuals in Britain. Misty L Bastian is Professor of Anthropology at Franklin Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylyania, USA. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Onitsha Igbo society, media and modern magic in southern Nigeria, Nigerian Pentecostalism in the twenty-first century as well as on British colonialists and their encounters with Igbo-speaking peoples from 1870-1930. Susan Kingsley Kent is Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. She is the author of various publications including, most recently; History of Western Civilization since 1500: An Ecological Approach (2008, 2010); and Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918-1931 (2009)."

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. viii
Chronology of Major Events	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Pre- and Early Colonial Igbo Worlds	p. 15
The British View: The Chaotic World of Southeastern Nigeria	p. 45
The Twin Traumas of War and Influenza	p. 78
The Nwaobiala of 1925	p. 108
The Ogu Umunwaanyi	p. 132
The British Suppression of the Women's War	p. 163
"More Deadly than the Male": The Women's War in the British Imagination	p. 188
What the Women Wrought	p. 218
Conclusion	p. 235
Notes	p. 240
Bibliography	p. 265
Index	p. 272
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