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Author:

Decker, Alicia C., author.

Title:

In Idi Amin's shadow : women, gender, and militarism in Uganda / Alicia C. Decker.

Publisher:

Ohio University Press,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

xvii, 244 pages: illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Uganda--Social conditions--1971-1979.
Women--Uganda--Social conditions--20th century.
Violence--Uganda--History--20th century.
Women and the military--Uganda.
Women and war--Uganda.
Amin, Idi,--1925-2003--Political and social views.
Militarism--Uganda.
Sex role--Uganda.
Amin, Idi,--1925-2003.
Militarism.
Political and social views.
Sex role.
Social conditions
Violence.
Women and the military.
Women and war.
Women--Social conditions.
Uganda.
1900 - 1999
History.
Amin Dada, Idi,--1924-2003.
Frau.
Militärdiktatur.
Soziale Situation.
Uganda.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 221- 235) and index.

Contents:

Conclusion: gendered legacies of Amin's militarism. Violence, militarism, and masculinity: the making of Idi Amin -- Gender, performance, and pain: the rise of Amin's dictatorship -- Of miniskirts and morality: femininity in service of the state -- An accidental liberation: women on the front lines of the economic war -- Neither a privilege nor a curse: women and the politics of empowerment -- Widows without graves: disappearance and the politics of invisibility -- Violence in the shadows: gender and the collapse of the military state -- Militant motherhood: women on the front lines of the liberation war -- Conclusion: gendered legacies of Amin's militarism.

Series:

New African histories

ISBN:

0821445022 (pdf)
9780821445020 (pdf)
0821421182 (pb : alk. paper)
9780821421185 (pb : alk. paper)
0821421174 (hc : alk. paper)
9780821421178 (hc : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)880966194

LCCN:

2014020779

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PRAX771 -- Cowles Library (Des Moines)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)