Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Tables VII
4. Preface IX
5. List of Contributors XI
6. Introduction: Domesticity in Africa 1
7. Part 1: Varieties of African Domesticity
8. 1. Home-Made Hegemony: Modernity, Domesticity, and Colonialism in South Africa 37
9. 2. Harem Domesticity in Kano, Nigeria 75
10. 3. Civilized Servants: Child Fosterage and Training for Status among the Glebo of Liberia 98
11. 4. Domestic Science Training in Colonial Yorubaland, Nigeria 116
12. Part 2: Domestic Encounters
13. 5. Colonial Fairy Tales and the Knife and Fork Doctrine in the Heart of Africa 143
14. 6. Colonial and Missionary Education: Women and Domesticity in Uganda, 1900-1945 172
15. 7. "Educating Eve": The Women's Club Movement and Political Consciousness among Rural African Women in Southern Rhodesia, 1950-1980 195
16. Part 3: Race, Class, Gender, and Domestic Work
17. 8. Race, Sex, and Domestic Labor: The Question of African Female Servants in Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1939 221
18. 9. Men at Work in the Tanzanian Home: How Did They Ever Learn? 242
19. 10. Cookstoves and Charcoal Braziers: Culinary Practices, Gender, and Class in Zambia 266
20. 11. Creches, Titias, and Mothers: Working Women and Child Care in Mozambique 290
21. Index 311