Mobilizing Zanzibari Women, 2014 The Struggle for Respectability and Self-Reliance in Colonial East Africa

The experiences of African women in the era before independence remain a woefully understudied facet of African history. This innovative and carefully argued study thus adds tremendously to our understanding of colonial history by focusing on women's education, professionalization, and political mobilization in the East African islands of Zanzibar.

Introduction: A Gendered Reading of Respectability, Development, and Nationalism 1. Imposing a Regime of Respectability 2. Creating a Culture of Development 3. Writing Self-Respect into Respectability 4. Integrating Respectability, Self-Respect, and Development 5. Discovering the Women's Movement