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Disputed Meanings of Women’s Liberation : Social Tensions and Symbolic Struggles During Angolan Independence

DOI zum Zitieren der Version auf EPub Bayreuth: https://doi.org/10.15495/EPub_UBT_00005986
URN zum Zitieren der Version auf EPub Bayreuth: urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-epub-5986-8

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Figueiredo, Fábio Baqueiro:
Disputed Meanings of Women’s Liberation : Social Tensions and Symbolic Struggles During Angolan Independence.
Institute of African Studies; Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Bayreuth, Germany , 2022 . - VI, 28 S. - (University of Bayreuth African Studies Working Papers ; 30 ) (Academy Reflects; 6)

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Cluster of Excellence Africa Multiple - Reconfiguring African Studies
EXC2052

Projektfinanzierung: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft

Abstract

During the armed struggle, the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) supported women's liberation and appointed women to several political, logistical, and military positions. Meanwhile, in colonial society, changes in economic activities, access to formal education, and urban sociability resulted in a more significant female presence in public spaces. After independence, women's liberation rose to prominence in a context of internal conflict and economic disruption. The new government promoted the “New Man” and a host of associated social personae, all of which were defined by a set of moral qualities individuals were expected to comply with if they wanted to qualify as legitimate actors in the making of independent Angola. Women ought to engage in “National Reconstruction” by joining the Organization of Angolan Women (OMA), which focused on literacy and hygienist campaigns aimed at fighting “obscurantism”. However, many urban women had their own agendas, which called for changes in gender roles in both public and domestic realms. This paper seeks to highlight the shifting gender patterns in Luanda and rural guerrilla zones during the late colonial period, and then analyze how, after independence, different groups of women conceived their place in the building of the new nation, and how the State tried to “domesticate” the possibilities of women's activism as such, in symbolic as well as practical ways.

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Publikationsform: Working paper, Diskussionspapier
Keywords: Women; women liberation; New Man; moralities; gender relations; nation-building; Angola
Themengebiete aus DDC: 300 Sozialwissenschaften > 320 Politikwissenschaft
900 Geschichte und Geografie > 960 Geschichte Afrikas
Institutionen der Universität: Profilfelder > Advanced Fields > Afrikastudien
Forschungseinrichtungen > Forschungsstellen > Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies
Forschungseinrichtungen > Sonderforschungsbereiche, Forschergruppen > EXC 2052 - Africa Multiple: Afrikastudien neu gestalten
Profilfelder
Profilfelder > Advanced Fields
Forschungseinrichtungen
Forschungseinrichtungen > Forschungsstellen
Forschungseinrichtungen > Sonderforschungsbereiche, Forschergruppen
Forschungseinrichtungen > Zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen > Institut für Afrikastudien - IAS > Bayreuth Academy of Advanced African Studies - BAAAS
Forschungseinrichtungen > Zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen
Forschungseinrichtungen > Zentrale wissenschaftliche Einrichtungen > Institut für Afrikastudien - IAS
Sprache: Englisch
Titel an der UBT entstanden: Ja
URN: urn:nbn:de:bvb:703-epub-5986-8
Eingestellt am: 09 Nov 2022 07:34
Letzte Änderung: 21 Nov 2022 09:57
URI: https://epub.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/5986

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