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In this timely addition to the Ohio Short Histories of Africa series, Pamela Scully takes us from the 1938 birth of Nobel Peace Prize winner and two-time Liberian president Ellen Johnson through the Ebola epidemic of 2014-15. Charting her childhood and adolescence, the book covers Sirleaf's relationship with her indigenous grandmother and urban parents, her early marriage, her years studying in the United States, and her career in international development and finance, where she developed her skill as a technocrat. The later chapters cover her years in and out of formal Liberian politics, her support for women's rights, and the Ebola outbreak. Sirleaf's story speaks to many of the key themes of the twenty-first century. Among these are the growing power of women in the arenas of international politics and human rights; the ravaging civil wars in which sexual violence is used as a weapon; and the challenges of transitional justice in building postconflict societies. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is an astute examination of the life of a pioneering feminist politician.

This work explores the effects of the transformations in the political economy of the Cape Colony at the end of the nineteenth century on the wine growing district of Stellenbosch. In the last three decades of the nineteenth century, both farmers and labourers in Stellenbosch were affected by the intensification and expansion of capitalist relations in Southern Africa subsequent to the discovery of diamonds and gold in the interior

This article analyses key documents and field reports in order to make explicit the kinds of conceptual perspectives that frame the work on sexual violence against women. It explores the ways in which the Beijing Declaration on Violence and Security Council Resolution 1325, which focus on women as victims of sexual violence, have framed the work on gender-based violence in the international arena. The article argues that the focus on women as the sole victims of violence hampers sustainable peacebuilding and development in post-conflict societies. Such a focus fails to address the ways in which boys and men experience different forms of sexual violence and limits the potential efficacy of interventions around gender-based violence.

Bibliography: pages 112-130. ; The thesis explores the effects on the wine growing district of Stellenbosch of the transformations in the political economy of the Cape Colony in the late nineteeth century. It is the first in depth study of Stellenbosch District and also contributes to other historical analyses concerned with the impact of industrialisation on rural society. Primary sources used include archival records, newspapers and the annual reports of the district branch of the Standard Bank. Labour legislation passed in the aftermath of slavery was most successful in tying labour to the farms when the labour market was confined to the agrarian sector. The mineral and transport revolutions of the late nineteenth century brought about the first major reformulation of social and economic relations in the Western Cape since emancipation. Between cl878 to 1896 wine farmers were hit by the general recession of the 1880s, by the excise tax on brandy, by phylloxera and by periodic labour shortages. Farmers, especially those capitalising their agricultural production, looked to the Zuid Afrikaansche Boere Beskermings Vereeniging and later the amalgamated Afrikaner Bond to press for state aid to wine farmers. In the late nineteenth century farmers finally experienced the implications of the proletarianisation of the rural underclass. Many labourers left to work in the growing urban sector, on the Public Works or in self employment as market gardeners. Farmers in Stellenbosch, like their peers in other societies confronting the implications of industrialisation, regarded labour mobility as illegitimate. They felt threatened by outbreaks of arson and theft, but also by the labourers' new assertiveness. For a time labour relations on the farms took place in a context where labourers had a measure of leverage against the power of the farmer. By 1910 the farmers' world had been righted and this was no longer the case.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- DRAMATIS PERSONAE -- Introduction -- 1 Winds of the Camdeboo -- 2 Cape of Storms -- 3 London Calling -- 4 Before the Law -- 5 Lost, and Found -- 6 Paris, City of Light -- 7 Ghosts of Sara Baartman -- EPILOGUE Family -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES -- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX

Introduction: Gender and slave emancipation in comparative perspective / Diana Paton and Pamela Scully -- Masculinity, citizenship, and the production of knowledge in the postemancipation Cape Colony, 1834-1844 / Pamela Scully -- Négresse, mulâtresse, citoyenne : gender and emancipation in the French Caribbean, 1650-1848 / Sue Peabody -- Acting as free men : subaltern masculinities and citizenship in postslavery Jamaica / Mimi Sheller -- Women and notions of womanhood in Brazilian abolitionism / Roger A. Kittleson -- A nation's sin : white women and U.S. policy toward freedpeople / Carol Faulkner -- Family strategies, gender, and the shift to wage labor in the British Caribbean / Bridget Brereton -- Gender and emancipation in French West Africa / Martin Klein and Richard Roberts -- Two stories of gender and slave emancipation in Cienfuegos and Santa Clara, central Cuba : a microhistorical approach to the Atlantic world / Michael Zeuske -- Libertos and libertas in the construction of the free worker in postemancipation Puerto Rico / Ileana Rodríguez-Silva -- Philanthropy, gender, and the production of public life in Barbados, ca. 1790-ca. 1850 / Melanie Newton -- Young ladies and dissolute women : conflicting views of culture and gender in public entertainment, Kingstown, St. Vincent, 1838-1888 / Sheena Boa -- Mulatas, crioulos, and morenas : racial hierarchy, gender relations, and national identity in postabolition popular song : southeastern Brazil, 1890-1920 / Martha Abreu ; translated from the Portuguese by Amy Chazkel and Junia Claudia Zaidan -- The rhetoric of miscegenation and the reconstruction of race : debating marriage, sex, and citizenship in postemancipation Arkansas / Hannah Rosen -- Gender and the politics of the household in Reconstruction Louisiana, 1865-1878 / Marek Steedman -- Bibliographic essay / Diana Paton.