In 1929, tens of thousands of south eastern Nigerian women rose up against British authority in whatis known as the Women's War. This bookbrings togther, for the first time, the multiple perspectives of the war's colonized and colonial participants and examines its various actions within a single, gendered analytical frame.

Marc Matera is Assistant Professor of Modern Britain, British Empire, and World History at Northern Arizona University, USA. He is the author of a number of articles on African and Caribbean intellectuals in Britain. Misty L Bastian is Professor of Anthropology at Franklin Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylyania, USA. She is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on Onitsha Igbo society, media and modern magic in southern Nigeria, Nigerian Pentecostalism in the twenty-first century as well as on British colonialists and their encounters with Igbo-speaking peoples from 1870-1930. Susan Kingsley Kent is Professor of History at the University of Colorado, Boulder, USA. She is the author of various publications including, most recently; History of Western Civilization since 1500: An Ecological Approach (2008, 2010); and Aftershocks: Politics and Trauma in Britain, 1918-1931 (2009)."