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