The experiences of African women in the era before independence remain a woefully understudied facet of African history. This innovative and carefully argued study thus adds tremendously to our understanding of colonial history by focusing on women's education, professionalization, and political mobilization in the East African islands of Zanzibar.

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Corrie Decker is an Assistant Professor of History at University of California, Davis, USA.

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Book Title: Mobilizing Zanzibari Women
Book Subtitle: The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa
Authors: Corrie Decker
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137472632
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave History Collection, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2014
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-46529-0Published: 06 November 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-47263-2Published: 05 November 2014
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 254
Topics: African Culture, Sociology, general, African History, Gender Studies, Development Studies, Philosophy of Education

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

Front Matter

Introduction

Inducting Girls into the Regime of Respectability

Training Girls for Colonial Development

Writing Self-Reliance into Respectability

Developing Agents of Mobility

Mobilizing Women During the Time of Politics

Conclusion

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