The Women's War of 1929

Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria

• Author(s): Marc Matera, Misty L. Bastian, S. Kingsley Kent, Susan Kingsley Kent,
• Publisher: Springer
• Pages: 278
• ISBN_10: 0230356060
  ISBN_13: 9780230356061
  
• Language: en
• Categories: History / Africa / General , History / Social History , History / Europe / Great Britain / General , Social Science / Gender Studies , History / General , History / Military / General , Political Science / Colonialism & Post-Colonialism ,

Description:... 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.