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Mobilizing Zanzibari Women

The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa

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  1. Corrie Decker
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Corrie Decker
    Pages 1-20

  3. Inducting Girls into the Regime of Respectability

    • Corrie Decker
    Pages 21-45

  4. Training Girls for Colonial Development

    • Corrie Decker
    Pages 47-67

  5. Writing Self-Reliance into Respectability

    • Corrie Decker
    Pages 69-98

  6. Developing Agents of Mobility

    • Corrie Decker
    Pages 99-128

  7. Mobilizing Women During the Time of Politics

    • Corrie Decker
    Pages 129-154

  8. Conclusion

    • Corrie Decker
    Pages 155-161

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 163-254
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About this book

The experiences of African women in the era before independence remain a woefully understudied facet of African history. This innovative and carefully argued study thus adds tremendously to our understanding of colonial history by focusing on women's education, professionalization, and political mobilization in the East African islands of Zanzibar.

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Corrie Decker is an Assistant Professor of History at University of California, Davis, USA.

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