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African encounters with domesticity
- Title
- African encounters with domesticity / edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen.
- Publication
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1992.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | HQ1787 .A34 1992 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Hansen, Karen Tranberg.
- Description
- xii, 315 pages; 23 cm
- Subject
- Sex role > Africa
- Sexual division of labor > Africa
- Home economics > Africa
- Home > Africa
- Women > Africa > Social conditions
- Home
- Home economics
- Manners and customs
- Sex role
- Sexual division of labor
- Women > Social conditions
- Frau
- Hausfrau
- Soziale Situation
- Soziale Stellung
- Huishouden
- Rôle selon le sexe > Afrique noire
- Division sexuelle du travail > Afrique noire
- Économie domestique > Afrique noire
- Femmes > Afrique noire > Conditions sociales
- Africa > Social life and customs
- Africa
- Afrika
- Afrique subsaharienne > Moeurs et coutumes
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : Domesticity in Africa / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Home-made hegemony : modernity, domesticity, and colonialism in South Africa / Jean and John L. Comaroff -- Harem domesticity in Kano, Nigeria / Beverly B. Mack -- Civilized servants : child fosterage and training for status among the Glebo of Liberia / Mary H. Moran -- Domestic science training in colonial Yorubaland, Nigeria / LaRay Denzer -- Colonial fairy tales and the knife and fork doctrine in the heart of Africa / Nancy Rose Hunt -- Colonial and missionary education : women and domesticity in Uganda, 1900-1945 / Nakanyike D. Musisi -- "Educating Eve" : the women's club movement and political consciousness among rural African women in Southern Rhodesia, 1950-1980 / Sita Ranchod-Nilsson -- Race, sex, and domestic labor : the question of African female servants in Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1939 / Elizabeth Schmidt -- Men at work in the Tanzanian home : how did they ever learn? / Janet M. Bujra -- Cookstoves and charcoal braziers : culinary practices, gender, and class in Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Creches, Titias, and mothers : working women and child care in Mozambique / Kathleen Sheldon.
- ISBN
- 0813518032
- 9780813518039
- 0813518040
- 9780813518046
- LCCN
- 91032144
- OCLC
- ocm24430910
- 24430910
- SCSB-14697045
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library