The Women's War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria

In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in what is known as the Women's War. This book brings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame.

Author: Marc Matera, Misty L. Bastian, S. Kingsley Kent
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 10/27/2011
Pages: 278
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780230302952

About the Author
MARC MATERA Assistant Professor of Modern Britain, British Empire, and World History. He is the author of a number of articles on African and Caribbean intellectuals in Britain.
MISTY L. BASTIAN Professor of Anthropology at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, PA, USA. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Onitsha Igbo society, media and modern magic in southern Nigeria, Nigerian Pentecostalism in the twenty-first century, as well as on British colonialists and their encounters with Igbo-speaking peoples from 1870-1930.
SUSAN KINGSLEY KENT Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. She is the author of various publications including, most recently, History of Western Civilization since 1500: An Ecological Approach (2008, 2010); and Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918-1931 (2009).