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Women, Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003

WOMEN AND GENDER Grace Bantebya Kyomuhendo and Marjorie Keniston Mcintosh. Women, Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003. Athens: Ohio University Press; Oxford: James Currey; Kampala: Fountain Publishers, 2006. xii + 308 pp. Maps. Figures. Illustrations. Table. Notes. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index. $55.00. Cloth. $26.95. Paper.

This book's value is not the authors' concept of "domestic virtue" but rather their contribution to the social history of Ugandan women. The authors are very interested in their idea of a shared African-British model of an ideal submissive and domestic woman; they contend that this model was imposed on women from the early twentieth century. But the concept ...

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