Required Reading (on Talis)

Susan Geiger; Nakanyike Musisi; Jean Marie Allman. Women in African colonial histories: Read Nakanyike Musisi. The Politics of Perception or Perception as Politics? Colonial and Missionary Representations of Baganda Women, 1900–1945, Ebook

Lynn Thomas. Imperial Concerns and ‘Women’s Affairs’: State Efforts to Regulate Clitoridectomy and Eradicate Abortion in Meru, Kenya,’ The Journal of African History

Elizabeth Schmidt. Negotiated Spaces and Contested Terrain: Men, Women, and the Law in Colonial Zimbabwe, 1890-1939, Journal of Southern Africa Studies

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Further Reading (on Talis)

Seminar Questions

How did colonial legislation impact gender relations in colonial Zimbabwe?

2. Why did attempts to restrict the practice of clitoridectomy cause such controversy in colonial Kenya?

3. “Colonial perceptions and representations of African women was an apparatus of power.” Discuss

4. What sources can historians use to find women and girls in the colonial African past?