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African encounters with domesticity

Hansen, Karen Tranberg.

Year: c1992.

Publisher: Rutgers University Press.

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Frontmatter

List of Tables

Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction: Domesticity in Africa

Part 1: Varieties of African Domesticity

1. Home-Made Hegemony: Modernity, Domesticity, and Colonialism in South Africa

2. Harem Domesticity in Kano, Nigeria

3. Civilized Servants: Child Fosterage and Training for Status among the Glebo of Liberia

4. Domestic Science Training in Colonial Yorubaland, Nigeria

Part 2: Domestic Encounters

5. Colonial Fairy Tales and the Knife and Fork Doctrine in the Heart of Africa

6. Colonial and Missionary Education: Women and Domesticity in Uganda, 1900-1945

7. "Educating Eve": The Women's Club Movement and Political Consciousness among Rural African Women in Southern Rhodesia, 1950-1980

Part 3. Race, Class, Gender, and Domestic Work

8. Race, Sex, and Domestic Labor: The Question of African Female Servants in Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1939

9. Men at Work in the Tanzanian Home: How Did They Ever Learn?

10. Cookstoves and Charcoal Braziers: Culinary Practices, Gender, and Class in Zambia

11. Creches, Titias, and Mothers: Working Women and Child Care in Mozambique

Index

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Title:

African encounters with domesticity : Karen Tranberg Hansen, editor.

Author:

Hansen, Karen Tranberg

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2008
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African encounters with domesticity : Karen Tranberg Hansen, editor.
Hansen, Karen Tranberg
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, c1992.

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Subject Headings:

• Housewives -- Africa
• Women -- Africa -- Social conditions
• Home -- Africa
• Africa -- Social life and customs

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