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Women of the Portuguese Guinea Liberation War: De-gendering the History of Anticolonial Struggle

Women of the Portuguese Guinea Liberation War: De-gendering the History of Anticolonial Struggle

          
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The Portuguese Guinea Liberation War is a major episode in 20th-century decolonization, as Portugual's defeat ultimately led to their abrupt withdrawal from their African colonies in 1974. Yet current accounts of the war, both popular and scholarly, tend to be distorted by gender bias: they usually focus on the charisma of male leaders and on male-dominated high politics and ideology, and they rarely ask how women contributed to independence.

In Women of the Portuguese Guinea Liberation War, Aliou Ly offers a much needed corrective. He does so not only through deep archival research, but also by documenting an entirely new oral history drawn from extensive interviews with women who participated in the war as spies, guerrilla fighters, and weapons transporters. Ly shows that women played major roles in winning the war, this largely because their motives for participating were often uniquely concrete: unlike most male participants, for example, many women joined the struggle in order to help fight for their families' food security.

However, women faced discrimination both during the war and immediately afterwards. They had to fight internally to be able to engage in active combat, and they returned to home to find that they were expected to take a back seat in the post-independence era-as one woman puts it, "Instead of sharing the pie with us, they gave us a slice of the pie." Ultimately, Ly shows, the legacy of this injustice feeds into distortions in contemporary narratives of the war. His accounts of the motives and experiences of female freedom fighters add new, urgent dimensions not only to these narratives, but also to received understandings of anticolonial struggle more broadly.

For its major intervention into the gendered nature of current debates around a major episode in 20th-century African independence struggles, this book is essential reading for students and researchers studying modern African history, African feminisms, and African gender studies.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781350383043
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: De-gendering the History of Anticolonial Struggle
  • Width: 156 mm
  • ISBN-10: 135038304X
  • Publisher Date: 16 May 2024
  • Height: 234 mm
  • No of Pages: 216
  • Spine Width: 13 mm
  • Weight: 480 gr


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