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African women : early history to the 21st century

Title
African women : early history to the 21st century / Kathleen Sheldon.
Author
Sheldon, Kathleen E., 1952-
Publication
  • Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, [2017]
  • ©2017

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Description
xvii, 330 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm
Summary
"African women's history is a topic as vast as the continent itself, embracing an array of societies in over fifty countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. In African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, Kathleen Sheldon masterfully delivers a comprehensive study of this expansive story from before the time of records to the present day. She provides rich background on descent systems and the roles of women in matrilineal and patrilineal systems. Sheldon's work profiles elite women, as well as those in leadership roles, traders and market women, religious women, slave women, women in resistance movements, and women in politics and development. The rich case studies and biographies in this thorough survey establish a grand narrative about women's roles in the history of Africa"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-314) and index.
Language (note)
  • Text in English.
Contents
Women and gender in Africa before 1700 -- Market traders, queens, and slaves in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Religion and slavery in the nineteenth century -- Colonial era, 1850s to 1945: work and family -- Politics, leadership, and resistance to colonialism until 1945 -- Liberation struggles and politics from the 1950s to the 1970s -- Work, family, and urbanization from the 1970s to the 1990s -- Women and politics after independence -- Women at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
Call Number
Sc E 20-37
ISBN
  • 9780253027221
  • 0253027225
  • 9780253027160
  • 0253027160
LCCN
  • 2017288750
  • 99972303217
OCLC
959033525
Author
Sheldon, Kathleen E., 1952- author.
Title
African women : early history to the 21st century / Kathleen Sheldon.
Publisher
Bloomington, Indiana, USA : Indiana University Press, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-314) and index.
Language
Text in English.
Local Note
AUTH: U. CALIFORNIA, LOS ANGELES.
Other Standard Identifier
99972303217
Research Call Number
Sc E 20-37
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