Urges in the colony.
Men and women in colonial Windhoek, 1890 - 1905
Wolfram Hartmann
Abstract
This paper explores the sexual economy of the quasi-urban context of early colonial
Windhoek - a settlement characterised by the dominating presence of the German
colonial military - and elsewhere during the first two to three decades of colonial
control in Hereroland. Colonising men's and colonised women's sexual interaction
is explored in the different spatial and social settings of an incipient colonial
settlement. This encounter was characterised by violence and consent, mainly
transient, yet sometimes permanent and in manifold commercial and other arrangements,
at times even offering an economic niche for enterprising women.
Journal of Namibian Studies, 1 (2007): 39 - 71