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In Idi Amin's Shadow - Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda (Paperback)
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In Idi Amin's Shadow - Women, Gender, and Militarism in Uganda (Paperback)
Series: New African Histories
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"A subtle, important, theoretically innovative, and elegantly
written study that centralizes feminist thinking and shows why it
matters." -Feminist Africa In Idi Amin's Shadow is a rich social
history examining Ugandan women's complex and sometimes paradoxical
relationship to Amin's military state. Based on more than one
hundred interviews with women who survived the regime, as well as a
wide range of primary sources, this book reveals how the violence
of Amin's militarism resulted in both opportunities and challenges
for women. Some assumed positions of political power or became
successful entrepreneurs, while others endured sexual assault or
experienced the trauma of watching their brothers, husbands, or
sons "disappeared" by the state's security forces. In Idi Amin's
Shadow considers the crucial ways that gender informed and was
informed by the ideology and practice of militarism in this period.
By exploring this relationship, Alicia C. Decker offers a nuanced
interpretation of Amin's Uganda and the lives of the women who
experienced and survived its violence. Each chapter begins with the
story of one woman whose experience illuminates some larger theme
of the book. In this way, it becomes clear that the politics of
military rule were highly relevant to women and gender relations,
just as the politics of gender were central to militarism. By
drawing upon critical security studies, feminist studies, and
violence studies, Decker demonstrates that Amin's dictatorship was
far more complex and his rule much more strategic than most
observers have ever imagined.
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