Research Catalog

Title

The great upheaval : women and nation in postwar Nigeria / Judith A. Byfield.

Author

Byfield, Judith A. (Judith Ann-Marie)

Publication

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2021]

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Details

Description

xiv, 320 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"In the years following World War II, the women of Abeokuta, Nigeria, staged a successful tax revolt that led to the formation first of the Abeokuta Women's Union and then of Nigeria's first national women's organization, the Nigerian Women's Union, in 1949. These organizations became ground zero for a new political vision of a vehicle for women across Nigeria to define their interests, desires, and needs while fulfilling the obligations and responsibilities of citizenship. In The Great Upheaval, Judith A. Byfield has crafted a finely textured social and intellectual history of gender and nation-making that not only tells a story of women's postwar activism but grounds it in a nuanced account of the complex tax system that generated the "upheaval." In capturing the dynamism of women's political activism in Nigeria's postwar period, Byfield illuminates the centrality of gender to the study of nationalism. She thus offers new lines of inquiry into the late colonial era and its consequences for the future Nigerian state. Ultimately, she challenges us to problematize the collapse of her female subjects' greatest aspiration, universal franchise, when the country achieved independence in 1960"--

Series Statement

New African histories

Uniform Title

New African histories series.

Subject

• To 1999
• Women > Political activity > History > Nigeria > Abeokuta > 20th century
• Women > Nigeria > Abeokuta > Economic conditions > 20th century
• Women > Nigeria > Abeokuta > Social conditions > 20th century
• Nationalism > Nigeria > History > 20th century
• Nationalism
• Politics and government
• Women > Economic conditions
• Women > Political activity
• Women > Social conditions
• Nigeria > History > 1900-1960
• Nigeria > Politics and government > To 1960
• Nigeria
• Nigeria > Abeokuta

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Birth and Demise of a Nation: The Egba United Government -- Abeokuta's Centenary: Masculinity and Nationalist Politics in a Colonial Space -- Race, Nation and Politics in the Interwar Period -- Women, Rice and War: Economic Crisis in Wartime Abeokuta -- "Freedom from Want": Politics, Protest and the Postwar Interlude -- Daughters of Tinubu: Crisis and Confrontation in Abeokuta.

Call Number

Sc E 22-938

ISBN

• 9780821423974
• 0821423975
• 9780821423981
• 0821423983

LCCN

2019031415

OCLC

1110122887

Author

Byfield, Judith A. (Judith Ann-Marie), author.

Title

The great upheaval : women and nation in postwar Nigeria / Judith A. Byfield.

Publisher

Athens, Ohio : Ohio University Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New African histories

New African histories series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

To 1999

Research Call Number

Sc E 22-938