Book Description
This digital document is an article from Canadian Journal of History, published by University of Saskatchewan on April 1, 2003. The length of the article is 725 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.Citation Details
Title: "This Matter of Women is Getting Very Bad": Gender, Development and Politics in Colonial Lesotho.(Book Review)
Author: Teresa Barnes
Publication: Canadian Journal of History (Refereed)
Date: April 1, 2003
Publisher: University of Saskatchewan
Volume: 38 Issue: 1 Page: 160(2)Article Type: Book ReviewDistributed by Thompson Gale
Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
by Marc Epprecht. Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, University of Natal Press, 2000. ix, 281 pp. $34.95 U.S. (paper).
In this book, Marc Epprecht sets out to challenge several enduring stereotypes of African women in Southern Africa: that gender subordination is timeless and a mere backdrop to the real action, and that there must be an inevitable androcentrism in the discourses of modern politics in Lesotho. I enjoyed several aspects of this book. Firstly, perhaps its strongest sections deal with gender relations in the pre-colonial and early colonial periods, which is rare in Southern African monographs. The sources are generally too sparse to enable anyone but the most imaginative of authors make more than enlightened guesses. Epprecht has several...
Home
