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GENDER (COLONIAL (POPULATION CRISIS (Could gain status by being successful…
GENDER
COLONIAL
POPULATION CRISIS
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Intrusive, compulsory medical interventions
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Doyle - women excluded from power due to attempts to homogenise Ganda identity and quash dissident voices and identities
BUNYORO
Women banned from migrating to areas of specialised cotton production - Beattie believed was to prevent tem from being able to repay bride wealth and escape
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Many Nyoro women were forced to take on an increaesd productive load in colonial period but didnt get any benefits or money
high levels of divorce - educated n christian women expect more - might leave if husband marries 2nd wife - Doyle
Local parish council in Bunyoro recommends that pregnant women should marry the father and divorced women should re-marry - Beattie
1900 Agreement in Buganda - forced shift to cash economy and high taxes meant high workload for women while men controlled wealth and participated more in cash economy - Tuck
Men had to travel to fulfil labour obligations - away for months at a time, had to take care of entire homestead and meet demand for food if labourers were staying in area
Musisi - women change their names and name their children to reflect their unhappiness in marriage - popular among Christian women - more educated, expected more
Marriage laws get v messy in colonial period - colonial, christian, islam and traditional marriages
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PRE-COLONIAL
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Namasole
Powerful, own lands and estates - can influence + make a kabaka
Role was to challenge and check kabaka, depose + enthrone
Queen Mother in Mutesa's time refused to wear imported cloth - reduce influence of Europeans - Hanson
Had own taxes, ministers, lands, independence, court
Queen sisters - male gendered, picked husbands + paid brideprice
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Marriage
Less sub-servient than initially thought - R Stephens - some women had control over who they married, women w supportive family had more freedom in role in marriage/divorce
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Motherhood
Could improve status in pre-colonial era, esp if senior wife/mothered heir to the family - mostly only attainable for wealthier women w strong support from kin
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