| Description |
xi, 297 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm |
| Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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| Contents |
Women in twentieth-century Hausa society / Catherine Coles and Beverly Mack -- Islamic leadership positions for women in contemporary Kano Society / Balaraba B. M. Sule and Priscilla E. Starratt -- From Accra to Kano : one woman's experience / Deborah Pellow -- Islamic values, the State, and "the development of women" : the case of Niger / Roberta Ann Dunbar -- Hausa-Fulani women : the state of the struggle / Bilkisu Yusuf -- Royal wives in Kano / Beverly Mack -- Women and the law in early-twentieth-century Kano / Allan Christelow -- The role of women in Kano City politics / Barbara J. Callaway -- Hausa women's work in a declining urban economy : Kaduna, Nigeria, 1980-1985 / Catherine Coles -- Hausa women in the urban economy of Kano / Alan Frishman -- Gender relationships and religion : women in the Hausa Bori of Ader, Niger / Nicole Echard -- Marriage in the Hausa Tatsuniya tradition : a cultural and cosmic balance / Connie Stephens -- Women's roles in the contemporary Hausa theater of Niger / Janet Beik -- Ideology, the mass media, and women : a study from Radio Kaduna, Nigeria / Ayesha M. Imam |
| Analysis |
Niger |
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Nigeria |
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Women Social conditions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-288) and index |
| Subject |
Muslim women.
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Women, Hausa.
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| Author |
Coles, Catherine M.
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Mack, Beverly B. (Beverly Blow), 1952-
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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| LC no. |
91014182 |
| ISBN |
0299130207 |
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029913024X (paperback) |
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