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African encounters with domesticity

Author: Karen Tranberg Hansen
Publisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©1992.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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African encounters with domesticity.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c1992
(OCoLC)646968253
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Karen Tranberg Hansen
ISBN: 0813518032 : 9780813518039 0813518040 : 9780813518046
OCLC Number: 24430910
Description: xii, 315 p. ; 23 cm.
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.
Responsibility: edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen.

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