Our New Husbands Are Here - Households, Gender, and Politics in a West African State from the Slave Trade to Colonial Rule - Emily Lynn Osborn -
Brand: Ohio University Press
Description
Investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization? This book addresses this question by exploring the relationship of the household to the state.
