Rhiannon Stephens

A History of African Motherhood

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book-length treatment of the history of motherhood in pre-colonial Africa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. März 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 408g
• ISBN-13: 9781107547193
• ISBN-10: 1107547199
• Artikelnr.: 42801248

Autorenporträt

Rhiannon Stephens is Assistant Professor of African History at Columbia University. Her work has been published in scholarly journals such as Past and Present and the Journal of African History. She received her PhD in history from Northwestern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction; 1. Writing pre-colonial African history: words and other
historical fragments; 2. Motherhood in North Nyanza, eighth through the
twelfth century; 3. Consolidation and adaptation: the politics of
motherhood in early Buganda and South Kyoga, thirteenth through the
fifteenth century; 4. Mothering the kingdoms: Buganda, Busoga, and East
Kyoga, sixteenth through the eighteenth century; 5. Contesting the
authority of mothers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries;
Conclusion.