Violence and gender in Africa's Iberian colonies : feminizing the Portuguese and Spanish Empire, 1950s-1970s / Andreas Stucki.
Stucki, Andreas, 1975- author.
2019
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Title
Violence and gender in Africa's Iberian colonies : feminizing the Portuguese and Spanish Empire, 1950s-1970s / Andreas Stucki.
Author
Stucki, Andreas, 1975- author.
ISBN
9783030172305 (electronic book)
3030172309 (electronic book)
9783030172299
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
Copyright
©2019
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations, map.
Call Number
HQ1787
Dewey Decimal Classification
305.42096
Summary
This book examines how and why Portugal and Spain increasingly engaged with women in their African colonies in the crucial period from the 1950s to the 1970s. It explores the rhetoric of benevolent Iberian colonialism, gendered Westernization, and development for African women as well as actual imperial practices – from forced resettlement to sexual exploitation to promoting domestic skills. Focusing on Angola, Mozambique, Western Sahara, and Equatorial Guinea, the author mines newly available and neglected documents, including sources from Portuguese and Spanish women’s organizations overseas. They offer insights into how African women perceived and responded to their assigned roles within an elite that was meant to preserve the empires and stabilize Afro-Iberian ties. The book also retraces parallels and differences between imperial strategies regarding women and the notions of African anticolonial movements about what women should contribute to the struggle for independence and the creation of new nation-states.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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Intro; Acknowledgements; Contents; About the Author; Abbreviations; List of Figures; Chapter 1 Introduction: Feminizing Empire; Decolonization and the Iberian Dictatorships; Transforming African Women; Perspectives: Violence and Gender in Africa's Iberian Colonies; Chapter 2 Soft Power: Uplifting "Native Women"; Between Metropoles and Colonies; First Steps and New Opportunities in Africa; Toward the Realities in the Colonies; Between Oppositions; Religion; Epilog: Toward Repressive Modernization?; Chapter 3 Violence: Authoritarian Transformations; Winning Hearts and Minds; Transformative Wars

Destruction and ConstructionDevelopment, the New Name for Peace; Epilog: Poor but Fraternal and Generous?; Chapter 4 "African Skin and a Hispanic Heart"? Racism, Ethnic Relations, Class, and Gender; Pride: Luso- and Hispanotropicalism, A Shared Discourse; Racial Prejudice and Cultural Inferiorization; Abuse and Sexual Exploitation; Epilog: Toward a Subordinated Female Elite; Chapter 5 The "Bargains" of African Women's Cooperation; The Empire: Cooperation and Collaboration; The Bargain of "Indigenous" Cooperation; Advantages and Disadvantages: Education in the Metropoles; Chosen

Obligations and Benefits and Their SubversionEpilog: Leaving to Stay; Chapter 6 Staging Iberian Domesticity in Africa; Implementing Iberian Domesticity in the Colonies; Spreading the Gospel; Folklore and Sports; Epilog: Nationalizing Through the Taste Buds?; Chapter 7 Empire and Nation-States: Competing Projects; Revolutionary Women's Organizations in Mozambique and Angola; The "Other" Modernizers: Frelimo and the MPLA; Competing Visions of the Nation; Epilog: Nationalisms and Nation-States; Chapter 8 Epilog: The Presence of Imperial Pasts; Exit Options; Contested Citizenship

Toward a Cultural Empire?Bibliography; Index; Blank Page; Blank Page; Blank Page; Blank Page; Blank Page; Blank Page

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