Our new husbands are here : households, gender, and politics in a West African state from the slave trade to colonial rule / Emily Lynn Osborn.

In Our New Husbands Are Here, Emily Lynn Osborn investigates a central puzzle of power and politics in West African history: Why do women figure frequently in the political narratives of the precolonial period, and then vanish altogether with colonization? Osborn addresses this question by exploring...

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Main Author: Osborn, Emily Lynn
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Athens : Ohio University Press, ©2011.
Series:New African histories series.
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