Gender, Culture and Empire: European Women in Colonial Nigeria (St Antony's Series)

and Sheelagh Wrench. I would also like to thank the few others who could not be reached whose permission I sought for the use of quotations and the many whose records proved enriching but were not cited in these pages for lack of space. Rhodes House, with the facilities of the Bodleian Library, supplied the illustrations for the use of which Elizabeth Paterson and Kathleen Player have kindly given their permission. The Oxford Development Records Project provided central documentation for this work; my thanks to its Director, Anthony Kirk-Greene, and also to Ingrid Thomas, Alison Smith and Mary Bull for their friendly co-operation. The Librarian of Rhodes House, Alan Bell, and the staff have been invariably helpful. I am also much indebted to Bob Townsend, Librarian of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, for assistance on many obscure details as well as routine matters. June Anderson, Librarian of the Institute of Social Anthropology, has supplied many books at opportune moments. Charles Allen offered the use of the tapes and transcripts of his interviews for his BBC programme and book, Talesfrom the Dark Continent. I am grateful to him and to the staff of the Imperial War Museum for making these available. Kenneth Robinson kindly sent me an unpublished lecture and made useful critical notes on part of a chapter. My intellectual and institutional debts stretch over many years: to mentors and colleagues at the Institute of Social Anthropology, Somerville College, St. Antony's College and Queen Elizabeth House. The Oxford University seminar on African affairs, convened by Professor Kenneth Kirkwood and Anthony Kirk-Greene, has been important in sustaining links with those who come from Africa as well as those with scholarly interests there. Since its initial meeting in 1973, the Thursday seminar on the social anthropology of women has provided a lively forum. In more recent years, I have benefited from the intellectual resources and support of the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research on Women, Queen Elizabeth House; my thanks to its Director, Shirley Ardener, Members and Visiting Fellows. In particular, the workship convened by Hilary Callan and Shirley Ardener resulting in their collection, The Incorporated Wife (1984), gave insights and stimulus for my study. Numerous friends and colleagues, too many to name, have given encouragement and ideas for this book. With janice Brownfoot, whose paper on European women in colonial Malaya sparked my interest in this topic, I have enjoyed many hours of fruitful talk on problems and sources. Hilary Callan,j ulie Marcus and Lidia Sciama each gave critical advice on specific chapters. Front Matter....Pages i-xiv Front Matter....Pages 1-2 Women in ‘A Man’s Country’....Pages 3-29 Imperial Representations of Gender....Pages 30-54 Power and Rank Made Visible....Pages 55-79 Front Matter....Pages 81-81 Women in Health Care....Pages 83-109 Women Education Officers....Pages 110-138 Women as Colonial Administrators....Pages 139-162 Front Matter....Pages 163-163 Part-Time Wives: before 1940....Pages 165-187 The Domestication of Colonial Life: after 1940....Pages 188-204 Identity and Commitment....Pages 205-224 Front Matter....Pages 225-225 Another Meaning....Pages 227-244 Back Matter....Pages 245-278