Trouble Showed the Way – Women, Men, and Trade in the Nairobi Area, 1890 – 1990

en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 noi 1997

Relates women's involvement in the staples trade to enhanced self-confidence, the rise of women's organizations, and changes in government policies. This study aims to show that their involvement with trade, not only changes their conceptions of themselves, but also their abilities and their physical beings.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780253211514
ISBN-10: 0253211514
Pagini: 368
Ilustrații: 20 b&w photos
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 23 mm
Greutate: 0.61 kg
Editura: MH – Indiana University Press

Recenzii

Based on extensive archival and oral research, Robertson's book offers a fascinating and previously untold story--that of women traders in central Kenya. Fundamental to the economic and social history of East Africa, women's trade both predated colonialism and outlasted it. Exploring the interlinkage of women's agricultural production and their trade, Robertson describes how, during the colonial period, central Kenyan women dominated the dried staples trade throughout much of the country and fed the rapidly growing urban center of Nairobi. She demonstrates the ways in which colonial policies, aided and abetted by African men, gradually circumscribed women's trading options and their economic activities, mobility, and sexuality. Women responded to these efforts with resistance and innovation. In the postindependence period, women's solidarity groups and campaigns of collective action have increasingly led to their empowerment, despite male antipathy and a hostile state. Robertson's book represents a powerful contribution to African social, economic, and women's history. Highly recommended. Upper--division undergraduates and above.E. S./P>--E. S. Schmidt, Loyola College in Maryland"Choice" (01/01/1998)

Notă biografică

Claire C. Robertson, Professor of History and Women s Studies at Ohio State University, is the author of Sharing the Same Bowl, winner of the 1985 Herskovits Prize, and co-author of Women and Slavery in Africa and Women and Class in Africa."

Descriere

Historian Claire Robertson employs a variety of approaches to an extensive case study of historical transformations in gender, agriculture, residence, and civil society. Comparing women commodities traders with men's trade, Robertson relates women's involvement in trade to enhanced self-confidence, the rise of women's organizations, and changes in government policies. 30 photos. 7 figures.

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