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Courtyards, markets, city streets : urban women in Africa
- Title
- Courtyards, markets, city streets : urban women in Africa / edited by Kathleen Sheldon.
- Publication
- Boulder, Colo. : WestviewPress, c1996.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Sheldon, Kathleen E., 1952-
- Description
- viii, 342 p. : map; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-328) and index.
- Contents
- Part 1: Introduction. -- Urban African women: courtyards, markets, city streets / Kathleen Sheldon -- Part 2: Migration and urbanization. -- South African women and migration in Umtata, Transkei, 1800-1935 / Sean Redding -- Transitions in Kenyan patriarchy: attempts to control Nairobi area traders, 1920-1963 / Claire C. Robertson -- Three generations of Hausa women in Kaduna, Nigeria, 1925-1985 / Catherine M. Coles -- Part 3: Courtyards: marriage, family, and housing. -- Washing dirty laundry in public: local courts, custom, and gender relations in postcolonial Lusaka / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Can polygyny be avoided in Dakar? / Philippe Antoine and Jeanne Nanitelamio -- Health, gender relations, and poverty in the AIDS era / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf -- Moving and coping: women tenants in Gweru, Zimbabwe / Miriam Grant -- Part 4: Markets: work and survival. -- Women in business: class and Nairobi's small and medium-sized producers / Dorothy McCormick -- Beyond simple survival: women microentrepreneurs in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe / Mary Johnson Osirim -- Prostitution, a petit-métier during economic crisis: a road to women's liberation? The case of Cameroon / Paulette Beat Songue -- Part 5: City streets: politics and community. -- 'I am with you as never before': women in urban protest movements, Alexandra Township, South Africa, 1912-1945 / John Nauright -- Urban women's movements and political liberalization in East Africa / Aili Mari Tripp.
- Call Number
- Sc E 96-871
- ISBN
- 0813386853 (alk. paper)
- 0813386861 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 96026118
- OCLC
- 34933971
- Title
- Courtyards, markets, city streets : urban women in Africa / edited by Kathleen Sheldon.
- Imprint
- Boulder, Colo. : WestviewPress, c1996.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-328) and index.
- Added Author
- Sheldon, Kathleen E., 1952-
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 96-871