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Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War
Reframing Gender and Conflict in Africa
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2020
Summary
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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Copyright year
2020
ISBN-Print
978-1-7936-1784-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-7936-1785-9
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
338
Product type
Edited Book
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List of Figures No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Undressing to Redress No access
3. Becoming Biafran No access
4. Nwanyi B’uno No access
5. Invisible Loss No access
6. Women, War Memories, and Counter Memories No access
7. Rape as a Moral Attack against Women in the Nigeria-Biafra War No access
8. Igbo Maidens and the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967–1970 No access
9. Igbo Women’s Fashion and the Nigeria-Biafra War No access
10. Igbo Women and Postwar Reconstruction, Rehabilitation, and Reconciliation Efforts in Nigeria, 1968–1975 No access
11. Impact of the Nigeria-Biafra War on the Education of Girls in Eastern Nigeria No access
12. Igbo Women’s Experience in Northern Nigeria during the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967–1970 No access
13. Women and War Crimes No access
14. Narratives of Trauma and Struggle in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun No access
15. The Wrath of War and the Ruin of the Woman No access
