Examination of gender, power, and authority among and between men and women in response to socioeconomic transformations in nineteenth and twentieth-century Africa. Themes include interpretations of gender, organization of labor, the missionary project, the state, and colonial rule.

Prerequisites:
History 49A or 49B or 147A or 147B or 147Q or Women’s Studies 147Q or upper-division standing. Same course as Women’s Studies 147G.

Stephan Miescher