A history of African motherhood : the case of Uganda, 700-1900 /
Rhiannon Stephens.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.
- xv, 223 p. : map ; 24 cm.
- African studies .
- African studies series. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-210) and index.
Writing precolonial African history: words and other historical fragments -- Motherhood in north Nyanza, eighth through the twelfth century -- Consolidation and adaptation: the politics of motherhood in early Buganda and south Kyoga, thirteenth through the fifteenth century -- Mothering the kingdoms: Buganda, Busoga and east Kyoga, sixteenth through the eighteenth century -- Contesting the authority of mothers in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.