Women, work & domestic virtue in Uganda 1900-2003

Authors:Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo, Marjorie Keniston McIntosh

Summary:This groundbreaking book by two leading scholars offers a complete historical picture of women and their work in Uganda, tracing developments from precolonial times to the present and into the future.

Print Book, English, 2006

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Publisher: James Currey, Oxford, 2006

Series:

Eastern African studies

Physical Description:xii, 308 p. : illustrations ; 22 cm.

ISBN:

9780852559888, 9780852559871, 9789970025862, 9780821417331, 9780821417348, 0852559887, 0852559879, 9970025864, 0821417339, 0821417347

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:1005150579

Subjects:

Women Employment Uganda History

Women Uganda Social conditions

Contents:

I INTRODUCTION; Introduction; Uganda: its districts & people; II THE GENERATIONS OF GRADUAL CHANGE, 1900-71; The early colonial world, 1900-39; Women's issues & the domestic virtue model; The late colonial period, 1940-62; The early independence years, 1962-71; III RADICAL TRANSFORMATIONS FOR UGANDA & ITS WOMEN, 1971-2003; The Amin/Obote II period, 1971-86; The broader developments for women during the NRM period, 1986-2003; Work & gender issues in the NRM years; Women & work in 2003: assessment & recommendations.