HIS481H1: Elite Women, Power, and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Africa

24S

The role of elite women in twentieth-century Africa has been overshadowed by studies of non-elite women so much so as to suggest that all women lacked power. This course aims to show how a very limited but important group of women negotiated power in a century of increasing patriarchy. It combines gender with class analysis.

300-level African History course or any of the African Studies courses offered at U of T.
Humanities
Society and its Institutions (3)