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OverviewThe experiences of African women in the era before independence remain a woefully understudied facet of African history. This innovative and carefully argued study thus adds tremendously to our understanding of colonial history by focusing on women's education, professionalization, and political mobilization in the East African islands of Zanzibar. Full Product DetailsAuthor: C. DeckerPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 4.434kg ISBN: 9781137465290ISBN 10: 1137465298 Pages: 254 Publication Date: 06 November 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction: A Gendered Reading of Respectability, Development, and Nationalism 1. Imposing a Regime of Respectability 2. Creating a Culture of Development 3. Writing Self-Respect into Respectability 4. Integrating Respectability, Self-Respect, and Development 5. Discovering the Women's MovementReviews'Decker provides a detailed and richly-nuanced study of Muslim women's education in Zanzibar, revealing not only what colonial officials, Islamic scholars, and island elites sought to achieve by providing secular education to women, but more importantly how Zanzibari women used schooling for their own empowerment. Her study situates the development of girls' education in Zanzibar within larger global trends in the Islamic and Western worlds for 'modernization' and demonstrates how island women's movements into paid professional employment were also part of a larger twentieth-century global trend towards women's economic self-reliance.' - Laura Fair, Associate Professor, Michigan State University, USA Author InformationCorrie Decker is an Assistant Professor of History at University of California, Davis, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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