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

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

• ISBN13: 9781137377777
• ISBN10: 1137377771
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-08-30
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings together, 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 Assistant Professor of Modern Britain, British Empire, and World History. He is the author of a number of articles on African and Caribbean intellectuals in Britain.
MISTY L. BASTIAN Professor of Anthropology at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, 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 KENTProfessor 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

1. Introduction
2. Pre-and Early Colonial Igbo Life
3. The British View: The Chaos of Igbo Life
4. The Twin Traumas of War and Flu
5. The Nwaobiala of 1925
6. The Ogu Umunwaanyi
7. The British Suppression of the Women's War
8. 'More Deadly than the Male'
9. What the Women Wrought
10. Conclusion