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Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Gendered Memory as Civic Virtue -- Part I. Expanding Regional Networks -- 1. Grandmothers' Stories of Civic Virtue in Motion: Early Foundations -- 2. Civic Virtue and the Dishonor of Slavery: Women's Memories of the Time of Disasters, 1880s-1910s -- Part II. Contracting Colonial Networks -- 3. Defense of Women's Virtue: Customary and Ritual Knowledge in the Colonial Era, 1920s-1930s -- 4. Failure of Civic Virtue: Domestic Violence and the Loss of Networks, 1930s-1960s -- Part III. Reformulating Networks -- 5. Forming New Communities: Narratives of Civic Virtue in Religious Networks, 1940s-1950s -- 6. Passing on the Legacy: Discourses of Civic Virtue in Postcolonial Gendered Networks, 1960s-Present -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Women's Alternative Practices of Ethnicity in Africa (Jan Bender Shetler) -- Part I. Forming Interethnic Alliances -- 1. Gendering the History of Social Memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania, as an Antidote to "Tribal" History (Jan Bender Shetler) -- 2. Living Ethnicity: Gender, Livelihood, and Ethnic Identity in Mozambique (Heidi Gengenbach) -- Part II. Constructing New Forms of Identity -- 3. Re-reading the 1835 "Fingo Emancipation": Women and Ethnicity in the Colonial Archive (Poppy Fry) -- 4. New African Marriage and Panethnic Politics in Segregationist South Africa (Meghan Healy-Clancy) -- 5. Women and Non-ethnic Politics in East Africa, 1934-1947 (Ethan R. Sanders) -- Part III. Promoting Gendered Domains of Ethnicity -- 6. Gender and the Limits of "Ndebeleness," 1910-1960s: Abezansi Churchwomen's Domestic and Associational Alliances (Wendy Urban-Mead) -- 7. "Women Were Not Supposed to Fight": The Gendered Uses of Martial and Moral Zuluness during uDlame, 1990-1994 (Jill E. Kelly) -- 8. Sorting and Suffering: Social Classification in Postgenocide Rwanda (Jennie E. Burnet) -- Part IV. Performing Gendered Ethnic Power -- 9. Matriliny, Masculinity, and Contested Gendered Definitions of Ethnic Identity and Power in Nineteenth-Century Southeastern Nigeria (Ndubueze L. Mbah) -- 10. Shaming Men, Performing Power: Female Authority in Zimbabwe and Tanzania on the Eve of Colonial Rule (Heike I. Schmidt) -- 11. Muslim Women Legislators in Postcolonial Kenya: Between Gender, Ethnicity, and Religion (Ousseina D. Alidou) -- Afterword: Reflections on Gender, Ethnicity, and Power (Dorothy L. Hodgson) -- Suggestions for Further Reading -- Contributors -- Index.