Gender and power in Sierra Leone : women chiefs of the last two centuries / Lynda Day.

Author: Day, Lynda Rose, 1953-

Edition Statement:1st ed.

Imprint:New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Descriptionxiv, 229 p. : ill., maps ; 23 cm.

Note:Men's and women's cultural associations: the construction of gender and gendered authority -- Women of authority before the colonial era -- Women chiefs during the nineteenth-century wars of trade, expansion, and state building -- Women leaders and the mediation of colonial rule -- Women chiefs in building the independent state -- Civil war and the attack on women's customary authority.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

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