EAN: 9783030172299

CAMBRIDGE IMPERIAL AND POST-COLONIAL STUDIES ...

This book examines how and why Portugal and Spain increasingly engaged with women in their
African colonies in the crucial period from the 1950s to the 1970s. It explores the rhetoric of
benevolent Iberian colonialism  gendered Westernization  and development for African women as
well as actual imperial practices ¿ from forced resettlement to sexual exploitation to
promoting domestic skills. Focusing on Angola  Mozambique  Western Sahara  and Equatorial
Guinea  the author mines newly available and neglected documents  including sources from
Portuguese and Spanish women¿s organizations overseas. They offer insights into how African
women perceived and responded to their assigned roles within an elite that was meant to
preserve the empires and stabilize Afro-Iberian ties. The book also retraces parallels and
differences between imperial strategies regarding women and the notions of African anticolonial
movements about what women should contribute to the struggle for independence and the creation
of new nation-states.

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