WGS 3118 Women, the State & Politics in African History
This course examines the formal and informal participation of African women in politics, their interaction with the state and their role in society. Themes will include: reconstructing the role of women in pre-colonial African society, women146s responses to colonial intervention and rule, African women in the independence struggle, African women in the post-colonial political economy, women and the military, and women146s contemporary political and social activism.