Wicked Women and the Reconfiguration of

Collection of detailed case studies demonstrates the centrality of women and

DOROTHY L. HODGSON is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University.SHERYL A. MCCURDY is a post-doctoral fellow at the Center for Health Promotion and Prevention Research in the University of Texas-Houston School of Public Health.

Illustrations

ix

Preface

xi

Introduction: ``Wicked'' Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa

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Dorothy L. Hodgson

Sheryl A. McCurdy

PART I: CONTESTING CONJUGALITY

Women, Marriage, Divorce and the Emerging Colonial State in Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1892-1904

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Judith Byfield

``She Thinks She's Like a Man'': Marriage and (De) constructing Gender Identity in Colonial Buha, Western Tanzania, 1943-1960

47

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Morgot Lovett

Wayward Women and Useless Men: Contest and Change in Gender Relations in Ado-Odo, S. W. Nigeria

67

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Andrea Cornwall

``Gone to Their Second Husbands'': Marital Metaphors and Conjugal Contracts in The Gambia's Female Garden Sector

85

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Richard A. Schroeder

PART II: CONFRONTING AUTHORITY

Dancing Women and Colonial Men: The Nwaobiala of 1925

109

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Misty L. Bastian

Rounding Up Spinsters: Gender Chaos and Unmarried Women in Colonial Asante

130

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Jean Allman

``My Daughter...Belongs to the Government Now'': Marriage, Maasai, and the Tanzanian State

149

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Dorothy L. Hodgson

PART III: TAKING SPACES/MAKING SPACES

Gender and the Cultural Construction of ``Bad Women'' in the Development of Kampala-Kibuga, 1900-1962

171

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Nakanyike B. Musisi

You Have Left Me Wandering About: Basotho Women and the Culture of Mobility

188

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David B. Coplan

Urban Threats: Manyema Women, Low Fertility, and Venereal Diseases in Tanganyika, 1926-1936

212

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Sheryl A. McCurdy

Negotiating Social Independence: The Challenges of Career Pursuits for Igbo Women in Postcolonial Nigeria

234

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Philomena E. Okeke

PART IV: NEGOTIATING DIFFERENCE

The Politics of Difference and Women's Associations in Niger: Of ``Prostitutes,'' ``the Public, and Politics''

255

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Barbara M. Cooper

``Wicked Women'' and ``Respectable Ladies'': Reconfiguring Gender on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1936-1964

274

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Jane L. Parpart

Gender and Profiteering: Ghana's Market Women as Devoted Mothers and ``Human Vampire Bats''

293

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Gracia Clark

Index

313

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About the Contributors

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