Description: Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon, Paperback by Mougoué, Jacqueline-bethel Tchouta, ISBN 0472054139, ISBN-13 9780472054138, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "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, th 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. Th 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--in the project of demonstrating that West Cameroon, which comprised of English-Speaking regions, was a progressive and autonomous nation. Its sources include oral interviews and archival sources 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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Book Title: Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon
Number of Pages: 346 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Gender, Separatist Politics, and Embodied Nationalism in Cameroon
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Item Height: 0.6 in
Publication Year: 2019
Subject: Africa / West, Women in Politics, Africa / General, Women's Studies, Africa / Central, World / African
Item Weight: 23.5 Oz
Type: Textbook
Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, History
Author: Jacqueline-Bethel Tchouta Mougoué
Item Length: 9 in
Series: African Perspectives Ser.
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
