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Gender, separatist politics, and embodied nationalism in Cameroon
- Title
- Gender, separatist politics, and embodied nationalism in Cameroon / Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué.
- Author
- Mougoué, Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta, 1983-
- Publication
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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Details
- Description
- xii, 330 pages : illustrations; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon, a west-central African country. Drawing upon history, political science, gender studies, and feminist epistemologies, the book examines how formally educated women sought to protect the cultural values and the self-determination of the Anglophone Cameroonian state as Francophone Cameroon prepared to dismantle the federal republic. The book defines and uses the concept of embodied nationalism to illustrate the political importance of women's everyday behavior--the clothes they wore, the foods they cooked, whether they gossiped, and their deference to their husbands--in the project of demonstrating that West Cameroon, which comprised of English-Speaking regions, was a progressive and autonomous nation. Its sources include oral interviews and archival sources such as women's newspaper advice columns, Cameroon's first cooking book, and the first novel published by an Anglophone Cameroonian woman"--
- Series Statement
- African perspectives
- Uniform Title
- African perspectives (University of Michigan. Press)
- Subjects
- Women > Political activity
- Nationalism
- Cameroon
- Politics and government
- Women > Cameroon > History > 20th century
- History
- Women > Identity
- Women > Political activity > Cameroon > History > 20th century
- Nationalism > Cameroon > History > 20th century
- 1900-1999
- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Women's Studies
- HISTORY / Africa / Central
- Cameroon > Politics and government > 20th century
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 19-1676
- ISBN
- 9780472074136
- 047207413X
- 9780472054138
- 0472054139
- 9780472125241 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019019139
- OCLC
- 1045654910
- Author
- Mougoué, Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta, 1983- author.
- Title
- Gender, separatist politics, and embodied nationalism in Cameroon / Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué.
- Publisher
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2019.
- Copyright Date
- ©2019
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- African perspectivesAfrican perspectives (University of Michigan. Press)
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 19-1676