Women in African Colonial Histories:

Book Description
Drawing on a wide variety of methodologies and sources, these essays explore encounters with colonialism by African women, both black and white. By considering the lives of farmers, queen-mothers, urban-dwellers, migrants and political leaders in the context of particular colonial conditions at specfic periods of time, it challenges, in fundamental ways, the notion of a homogeneous "African woman's experience."

About the Author
Jean Allman teaches African History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is author of The Quills of the Porcupine: Asante Nationalism in an Emergent Ghana and co-author (with Victoria Tashjian) of "I Will Not Eat Stone": A Women's History of Colonial Asante. Her research on gender, colonialism, and social change has appeared in numerous journals.


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Author Biography: Jean Allman teaches African History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is author of The Quills of the Porcupine: Asante Nationalism in an Emergent Ghana and co-author (with Victoria Tashjian) of "I Will Not Eat Stone": A Women's History of Colonial Asante. Her research on gender, colonialism, and social change has appeared in numerous journals.


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