Women in African colonial histories

Jean Marie Allman, Susan Geiger, Nakanyike Musisi

The essays assembled here explore African women's encounters with European colonialisms. They focus on the ways in which women negotiated that range of political, economic, and social forces embraced by the term 'colonial' - from European rule, missions, taxation, and cash cropping to biomedicine, labour migration, white settlement, and racialized discourses of power.