{"product_id":"women-and-the-nigeria-biafra-war-reframing-gender-and-conflict-in-africa-9781793617842","title":"Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War: Reframing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis first comprehensive study of the Nigeria-Biafra War (1967-1970) through the lens of gender explores the valiant and gallant ways women carried out old and new responsibilities in wartime and immediate postwar Nigeria. The book presents women as embodiments of vulnerability and agency, who demonstrated remarkable resilience and initiative, waging war on all fronts in the face of precarious conditions and scarcities, and maximizing opportunities occasioned by the hostilities. Women’s experiences are highlighted through critical analyses of oral interviews, memoirs, life histories, fashion and material culture, international legal conventions, music, as well as governmental and non-governmental sources. The book fills the gap in the war scholarship that has minimized women’s complex experiences fifty years after the hostilities ended. It highlights the cost of the conflict on Nigerian women, their participation in the hostilities, and their contributions to the survival of families, communities and the country. The chapters present counter-narratives to fictional and nonfictional accounts of the war, especially those written by men, which often peripheralize or stereotypically represent women as passive spectators or helpless victims of the conflict; and also highlight and exaggerate women’s moral laxity and sensationalize their marital infidelities.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart I: Writing about Warring Women in Prewar, Wartime and Postwar Nigeria\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Introduction: Writing about Women and the Nigeria-Biafra War\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGloria Chuku\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2: Undressing to Redress: The Sexual Politics of Protests in Colonial and Post-Colonial Southeastern Nigeria\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBright Alozie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3: Women and New Responsibilities in Wartimes: A Perspective Analysis of the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967 – 1970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAjishola Omojeje \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart II: Women’s War Life Stories and Memoirs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4: Becoming Biafran: The Civil War Writing of Rosina Umelo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eS. Elizabeth Bird\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 5: Nwanyi B’uno: Reflections on Angelina Ihejirika’s Memoir on the Nigeria-Biafra War\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChristine N. Ohale\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 6: Invisible Loss: Rose Njoku’s Narration of Familial Loss in the Nigeria-Biafra War\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eComfort Olajumoke Verissimo \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 7: Women, War Memories and Counter Memories: Stories of Survival, Resilience and Empowerment \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSussie U. Aham Okoro\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart III: War Conditions and Women’s Coping Strategies\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 8: Rape as a Moral Attack against Women in the Nigeria-Biafra War\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMary Rose-Claret Ogbuehi \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 9: Igbo Maidens and the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970: Interethnic Marriage or Forced Migration?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNathaniel B. Gimba Luka \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 10: Igbo Women's Fashion and the Nigeria-Biafra War\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChukwuemeka Nwigwe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart IV: Women, Consequences and Postwar Rehabilitation\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 11: Igbo Women and Postwar Reconstruction, Reconciliation and Reintegration Efforts in Nigeria, 1968-1975\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGloria Chuku\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 12: Impact of the Nigeria-Biafra War on the Education of Girls in Eastern Nigeria: 1967-1970\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eZara E. Kwaghe\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 13: Igbo Women’s Experience in Northern Nigeria during the Nigeria-Biafra War, 1967-1970: A Study in Lessons of Trauma and Backlash \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAisha Balarabe Bawa\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 14: Women and War Crimes: Highlighting Progress on Gender-Based Legislation in International Criminal Justice since the Nigeria-Biafra War\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChinyere Eze-Nliam\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePart V: The War and Literary Representations of Women\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 15: Narratives of Trauma and Struggle in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Half of a Yellow Sun \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBlessing Diala-Ogamba\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 16: The Wrath of War and the Ruin of the Woman: A Socio-critical Analysis of Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNgozi Kris-Ogbodo \u0026amp; Marinus Samoh Yong","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042639348055,"sku":"9781793617842","price":91.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793617842.jpg?v=1750954965","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/women-and-the-nigeria-biafra-war-reframing-gender-and-conflict-in-africa-9781793617842","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}