| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 247 pages) |
| Contents |
Western perceptions of African women in the 19th & early 20th centuries / Josephine Beoku-Betts -- Status of women in indigenous African societies / Niara Sudarkasa -- Mapping African feminisms / Obioma Nnaemeka -- Down to fundamentals : women-centered hearth-holds in rural west Africa / Felicia A. Ekejiuba -- Male lesbians & other queer notions in Hausa / Rudolf P. Gaudio -- Noise over camouflaged polygamy, colonial morality taxation, & a woman-naming crisis in Belgian Africa / Nancy Rose Hunt -- Fork up and smile : marketing, colonial knowledge, & the female subject in Zimbabwe / Timothy Burke -- Worries of the heart : widowed mothers, daughters, & masculinities in Maragoli, western Kenya, 1940-60 / Kenda Mutongi -- School fees & the marriage process for Mende girls in Sierra Leone / Caroline Bledsoe -- "No romance without finance" : commodities, masculinities, & relationships amongst Kampalan students / David Mills & Richard Ssewakiryanga -- "Dangerous" love : reflections on violence among Xhosa township youth / Katherine Wood & Rachel Jewkes -- Female farming in anthropology & African history / Jane I. Guyer -- "Gone to their second husbands" : marital metaphors & conjugal contracts in the Gambia's female garden sector / Richard |
|
A. Schroeder -- Which family? : problems in the reconstruction of the history of the family as an economic & cultural unit / Megan Vaughan |
|
Women "entrepreneurs" of early Nairobi / Janet M. Bujra -- Baganda women's night market activities / Nakanyike B. Musisi -- Shunting between masculine ideals : Nigerian railwaymen in the colonial era / Lisa A. Lindsay -- Rebels or status seekers? : women as spirit mediums in east Africa / Iris Berger -- Reflections on slavery, seclusion, & female labor in the Maradi region of Niger in the 19th & 20th centuries / Barbara Cooper -- Gender, culture, & capitalism : women & the remaking of Islamic tradition in a Sudanese village / Victorial Bernal -- Devout domesticity? : a century of African women's Christianity in South Africa / Deborah Gaitskell -- "Called to work for the kingdom of God" : the challenge of Presybyterian masculinities in colonial Ghana / Stephan F. Miescher -- Iyalode in the traditional Yoruba political system / Bolanle Awe -- Rounding up spinsters : gender chaos & unmarried women in colonial Asante / Jean Allmann -- Tanganyikan nationalism as "women's work" : life histories, collective biography, & changing historiography / Susan Geiger -- Gender & decolonization : a study of three women in west African public life / Laray Denzer -- No shortcuts to power : constraints on women's political effectiveness in Uganda |
|
Anne Marie Goetz -- Women in movement : transformations in African political landscapes / Aili Mari Tripp |
| Notes |
Published in association with the International African Institute |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
|
English |
|
digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
| Subject |
Sex role -- Africa
|
|
Women -- Africa -- Social conditions
|
|
Masculinity -- Africa
|
|
Sex (Psychology)
|
|
Gender identity.
|
|
Gender Identity
|
|
Masculinity
|
|
sex role.
|
|
Sexe.
|
|
Aspects psychologiques.
|
|
Rôle des femmes.
|
|
Gender identity
|
|
Masculinity
|
|
Sex (Psychology)
|
|
Sex role
|
|
Women -- Social conditions
|
|
Geschlechterrolle
|
|
Sekseverschillen.
|
|
Vrouwen.
|
| SUBJECT |
Africa. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001531
|
|
Africa |
| Subject |
Afrique subsaharienne.
|
|
Africa
|
|
Afrika
|
| Genre/Form |
Aufsatzsammlung.
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Cornwall, Andrea, 1963-
|
|
International African Institute.
|
|
