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Gendering Ethnicity
in African Women’s Lives
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w o m e n i n a f r i c a a n d
t h e d i a s p o r a
Ser ies Edi tors
stanl ie james
aili mari tripp
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Gendering Ethnicity in
African Women’s Lives
Edited by
Jan Bender Shetler
t h e u n i v e r s i t y o f w i s c o n s i n p r e s s
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Publication of this volume has been made possible, in part,
through the generous support of retired Goshen College history professor
James Hertzler and his wife, Diane.
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Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: Women’s Alternative Practices
of Ethnicity in Africa 3
jan bender shetler
Part I
Forming Interethnic Alliances
1 Gendering the History of Social Memory
in the Mara Region, Tanzania, as an Antidote
to “Tribal” History 31
jan bender shetler
2 Living Ethnicity: Gender, Livelihood, and
Ethnic Identity in Mozambique 57
heidi gengenbach
Part II
Constructing New Forms of Identity
3 Re-reading the 1835 “Fingo Emancipation”:
Women and Ethnicity in the Colonial Archive 87
poppy fry
4 New African Marriage and Panethnic Politics in
Segregationist South Africa 100
meghan healy-clancy
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5 Women and Non-ethnic Politics in East Africa,
1934–1947 123
ethan r. sanders
Part III
Promoting Gendered Domains of Ethnicity
6 Gender and the Limits of “Ndebeleness,”
1910–1960s: Abezansi Churchwomen’s Domestic
and Associational Alliances 153
wendy urban-mead
7 “Women Were Not Supposed to Fight”:
The Gendered Uses of Martial and Moral Zuluness
during uDlame, 1990–1994 178
jill e. kelly
8 Sorting and Suffering: Social Classification
in Postgenocide Rwanda 206
jennie e. burnet
Part IV
Performing Gendered Ethnic Power
9 Matriliny, Masculinity, and Contested Gendered
Definitions of Ethnic Identity and Power in
Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Nigeria 233
ndubueze l. mbah
10 Shaming Men, Performing Power: Female
Authority in Zimbabwe and Tanzania on the Eve
of Colonial Rule 265
heike i. schmidt
11 Muslim Women Legislators in Postcolonial Kenya:
Between Gender, Ethnicity, and Religion 290
ousseina d. alidou
Afterword: Reflections on Gender, Ethnicity, and
Power 309
dorothy l. hodgson
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Contents vii
Suggestions for Further Reading 315
Contributors 323
Index 327
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Acknowledgments
Thanks to the editors and readers at the University of Wisconsin Press for their
helpful insights and suggestions and for their conviction that we could make a
signifcant contribution to scholarship. We owe special thanks to Aili Tripp for
seeing the importance of this topic at the frst African Studies Association panel
in 2010 and to Stanlie James, the series coeditor, as well as Gwen Walker and
the great staff at the press. Thanks to Lauren Stoltzfus, a recent Goshen College
graduate, who did much of the frst round of editing, helping us to see how an
undergraduate might experience our writing and showing amazing ability at
a young age. Thanks to Goshen College for the grant money to do much of the
editing and preparation work. Thanks to Dorothy Hodgson for providing
guidance and support throughout the process, as well as insightful comments
on drafts.
Chapter 4, “New African Marriage and Panethnic Politics in Segregationist
South Africa” by Meghan Healy-Clancy, has been adapted from Meghan
Healy-Clancy, “The Politics of New African Marriage in Segregationist South
Africa,” African Studies Review 57, no. 1 (April 2014), copyright © 2014 by African
Studies Association. Reprinted with the permission of Cambridge University
Press.
Chapter 8, “Sorting and Suffering: Social Classifcation in Postgenocide
Rwanda” by Jennie E. Burnet, has been adapted from Jennie E. Burnet, Genocide
Lives in Us: Women, Memory, and Silence in Rwanda, copyright © 2012 by the
University of Wisconsin Press. Reprinted with the permission of the University
of Wisconsin Press.
Chapter 11, “Muslim Women Legislators in Postcolonial Kenya: Between
Gender, Ethnicity, and Religion “ by Ousseina D. Alidou, has been adapted
from Ousseina D. Alidou, Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya: Leadership,
Representation, and Social Change, copyright © 2013 by the University of Wiscon-
sin Press. Reprinted with the permission of the University of Wisconsin Press.
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