Buch
Monografie
Igbo women and economic transformation in Southeastern Nigeria, 1900 - 1960
Verfasst von:
Chuku, Gloria
New York, NY [u. a.]:
Routledge
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2013
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320 S.
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| Einrichtung: | Frauensolidarität | Wien |
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| Verfasst von: | Chuku, Gloria |
| Schriftenreihe: |
African studies
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| Ausgabe: | 1. issued in paperback |
| Jahr: | 2013 |
| Maße: | 23 cm |
| ISBN: | 0415648424 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| This study analyzes the complexity and flexibility of gender relations in Igbo society, with emphasis on such major cultural zones as the Anioma, the Ngwa, the Onitsha, the Nsukka, and the Aro. Chuku’s study of the first half of the last century provides interesting thematic discussions including resistance movements, powerful middlewomen traders, transport systems, and the commercialization of agriculture during colonialism. In south-eastern Nigeria Chuku argues that women have played more important roles in the political economy of the region than previously acknowledged. Further, she posits that women concentrated their economic activities in agriculture, crafts and local industrial production and trade, thus contributing to both the export and domestic economies of British rule and the British war economy. However, she believes such contributions were tempered by the complexities of the Victorian gender ethos and shifting gender relations, where men were encouraged to enter previously female-dominated economic activities. | |
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| Literaturverz. S. 281 - 305 | |
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