Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xv
A Note on the Use of Names xvii
Introduction In Search of Amin's Women 1
Chapter 1 Violence, Militarism, and Masculinity: The Making of Idi Amin 16
Chapter 2 Gender, Performance, and Pain: The Rise of Amin's Dictatorship 40
Chapter 3 Of Miniskirts and Morality: Femininity in Service of the State 59
Chapter 4 An Accidental Liberation: Women on the Front Lines of the Economic War 75
Chapter 5 Neither a Privilege nor a Curse: Women and the Politics of Empowerment 92
Chapter 6 Widows without Graves: Disappearance and the Politics of Invisibility 114
Chapter 7 Violence in the Shadows: Gender and the Collapse of the Military State 135
Chapter 8 Militant Motherhood: Women on the Front Lines of the Liberation War 148
Conclusion: Gendered Legacies of Amin's Militarism 170
Appendix: Methods and Sources 175
Notes 181
Bibliography 221
Index 237