Gender, Separatist Politics and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon Hardback
by Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoue
Part of the African Perspectives series
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Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon illuminates how issues of ideal womanhood shaped the Anglophone Cameroonian nationalist movement in the first decade of independence in Cameroon, a west-central African country.
Drawing upon history, political science, gender studies, and feminist epistemologies, the book examines how formally educated women sought to protect the cultural values and the self-determination of the Anglophone Cameroonian state as Francophone Cameroon prepared to dismantle the federal republic.
The book defines and uses the concept of embodied nationalism to illustrate the political importance of women’s everyday behavior—the clothes they wore, the foods they cooked, whether they gossiped, and their deference to their husbands.
The result, in this fascinating approach, reveals that West Cameroon, which included English-speaking areas, was a progressive and autonomous nation.
The author’s sources include oral interviews and archival records such as women’s newspaper advice columns, Cameroon’s first cooking book, and the first novel published by an Anglophone Cameroonian woman.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:336 pages, 12 illustrations
- Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
- Publication Date:30/10/2019
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- ISBN:9780472074136
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:336 pages, 12 illustrations
- Publisher:The University of Michigan Press
- Publication Date:30/10/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9780472074136
