Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War
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Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War

Reframing Gender and Conflict in Africa

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eBook - ePub

Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War

Reframing Gender and Conflict in Africa

About this book

This first comprehensive study of the Nigeria-Biafra War (1967-1970) through the lens of gender explores the valiant and gallant ways women carried out old and new responsibilities in wartime and immediate postwar Nigeria. The book presents women as embodiments of vulnerability and agency, who demonstrated remarkable resilience and initiative, waging war on all fronts in the face of precarious conditions and scarcities, and maximizing opportunities occasioned by the hostilities. Women's experiences are highlighted through critical analyses of oral interviews, memoirs, life histories, fashion and material culture, international legal conventions, music, as well as governmental and non-governmental sources. The book fills the gap in the war scholarship that has minimized women's complex experiences fifty years after the hostilities ended. It highlights the cost of the conflict on Nigerian women, their participation in the hostilities, and their contributions to the survival of families, communities and the country. The chapters present counter-narratives to fictional and nonfictional accounts of the war, especially those written by men, which often peripheralize or stereotypically represent women as passive spectators or helpless victims of the conflict; and also highlight and exaggerate women's moral laxity and sensationalize their marital infidelities.

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Yes, you can access Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War by Gloria Chuku,Sussie U. Aham-Okoro in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Politics & International Relations & African History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Map of Nigeria
  2. List of Figures
  3. PART I: WRITING ABOUT WARRING WOMEN IN PREWAR, WARTIME, AND POSTWAR NIGERIA
  4. 1 Introduction: Writing about Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War
  5. 2 Undressing to Redress: The Sexual Politics of Protests in Colonial and Postcolonial Southeastern Nigeria
  6. PART II: WOMEN’S WAR LIFE STORIES AND MEMOIRS
  7. 3 Becoming Biafran: The Civil War Writing of Rosina Umelo
  8. 4 Nwanyi B’uno: Reflections on Angelina Ihejirika’s Memoir on the Nigeria-Biafra War
  9. 5 Invisible Loss: Rose Njoku’s Narration of Familial Loss in the Nigeria-Biafra War
  10. 6 Women, War Memories, and Counter Memories: Stories of Survival, Resilience, and Empowerment
  11. PART III: WAR CONDITIONS AND WOMEN’S COPING STRATEGIES
  12. 7 Rape as a Moral Attack against Women in the Nigeria-Biafra War
  13. 8 Igbo Maidens and the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1747–1750: Interethnic Marriage or Forced Migration?
  14. 9 Igbo Women’s Fashion and the Nigeria-Biafra War
  15. PART IV: WOMEN, CONSEQUENCES, AND POSTWAR REHABILITATION
  16. 10 Igbo Women and Postwar Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, and Reconciliation Efforts in Nigeria, 1748–1733
  17. 11 Impact of the Nigeria-Biafra War on the Education of Girls in Eastern Nigeria
  18. 12 Igbo Women’s Experience in Northern Nigeria during the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1747–1750: A Study in Lessons of Trauma and Backlash
  19. 13 Women and War Crimes: Highlighting Progress on Gender-Based Legislation in International Criminal Justice since the Nigeria-Biafra War
  20. PART V: THE WAR AND LITERARY REPRESENTATIONS OF WOMEN
  21. 14 Narratives of Trauma and Struggle in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun
  22. 15 The Wrath of War and the Ruin of the Woman: A Sociocritical Analysis of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
  23. About the Contributors