Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue canadienne des études africaines, Volume 30, Issue 1 (1996)

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Wayward Wives, Misfit Mothers, and Disobedient Daughters: “Wicked” Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa

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Wayward Wives, Misfit Mothers, and Disobedient Daughters: “Wicked” Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa
Dorothy L. Hodgson & Sheryl McCurdy
Pages: 1-9
Published online: 10 Mar 2014
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The 1932 “War” between Rival Ujiji (Tanganyika) Associations: Understanding Women's Motivations for Inciting Political Unrest
Sheryl McCurdy
Pages: 10-31
Published online: 10 Mar 2014
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Women, Marriage, Divorce and the Emerging Colonial State in Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1892–1904
Judith Byfield
Pages: 32-51
Published online: 10 Mar 2014
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“She Thinks She's Like a Man”: Marriage and (De)Constructing Gender Identity in Colonial Buha, Western Tanzania, 1943–1960
Margot Lovett
Pages: 52-68
Published online: 10 Mar 2014
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“Gone to Their Second Husbands”: Marital Metaphors and Conjugal Contracts in The Gambia's Female Garden Sector
Richard A. Schroeder
Pages: 69-87
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Narratives of Infanticide in the Aftermath of Slave Emancipation in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony, South Africa
Pamela Scully
Pages: 88-105
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“My Daughter…Belongs to the Government Now”: Marriage, Maasai and the Tanzanian State
Dorothy L. Hodgson
Pages: 106-123
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Contributors/Collaborateurs
Page: 124
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Book Reviews/Comptes rendus
E. Philip Morgan, Paul B. Henze, Peter Von Doepp, Henry Rempel, Christopher Adam, Rodger Yeager, P.S. Zachernuk, Stantie M. James, Raymond R. Gervais, Awuor Ayodo, Claude E. Welch jr. & William M. Welch jr.
Pages: 125-146
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