Focusing on African and European women and men, five articles explore generational conflict, connections between representation and violence, the incorporation of gendered power into state formation, memory and forgetting, and consumption and commodity cultures.
About the Author
Nancy Rose Hunt and Tessie P. Liu are the authors of Gendered Colonialisms in African History, published by Wiley.
Features
Nancy Rose Hunt's introduction places the essays in historiographical context for non-specialist readers.
Includes studies of men and masculinity and of the symbolic dimensions of gender as well as studies of African women's history.
Path-breaking work by younger scholars draws upon field work and archival research in Africa and Europe.
