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Author:
Decker, Corrie, author.
Title:
Mobilizing Zanzibari women : the struggle for respectability and self-reliance in colonial East Africa / Corrie Decker.
Publisher:
Palgrave Macmillan,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
xii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subject:
Women--Social aspects--Social aspects--Zanzibar.--Zanzibar.
Women--Political activity--Zanzibar.--Zanzibar.
Professional education of women--Zanzibar.--Zanzibar.
Zanzibar--Social life and customs--20th century.
Zanzibar--Colonial influence.
Colonial influence.
Manners and customs.
Professional education of women.
Women--Social aspects.--Social aspects.
Women--Political activity.
Tanzania--Zanzibar.
1900 - 1999
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-245) and index.
Contents:
Inducting girls into the regime of respectability -- Training girls for colonial development -- Writing self-reliance in respectability -- Developing agents of mobility -- Mobilizing women during the time of politics.
ISBN:
1137465298 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9781137465290 (hardcover : alk. paper)
OCLC:
(OCoLC)880831248
LCCN:
2014020340
Locations:
USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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