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Title: | Women's Mobilization in Uganda: Nonracial Ideologies in European-African-Asian Encounters, 1945-1962 |
Author: | Tripp, Aili M. |
Year: | 2001 |
Periodical: | International Journal of African Historical Studies |
Volume: | 34 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 543-564 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | Uganda |
Subjects: | race relations women's organizations History and Exploration colonialism Religion and Witchcraft Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Women's Issues Historical/Biographical Cultural Roles Ethnic and Race Relations |
External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/3097553 |
Abstract: | The current women's movement in Uganda is one of the most politically powerful social movements in Africa today. Some of the reasons for this lie in the earlier efforts at women's mobilization in the 1950s and 1960s. This article examines women's mobilization in Uganda from 1945 to 1962, in particular interactions between African, British and Asian women who sought to advance the status of women. It shows that racist ideologies were actively challenged by women's mobilization across racial lines in ways that were less evident in men's associations at the time. Women's organizations prided themselves on their efforts to minimize the importance of religion, race, ethnicity and political affiliation so that these would not stand in the way of their efforts to form a pressure group. The Uganda Council of Women (UCW) exemplifies this trend. One reason these interracial linkages were formed in ways less evident in other parts of Africa was the fact that a group of African women leaders had comparable education to the European women in Uganda at the time. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |