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Women in Africa : studies in social and economic change

Title
Women in Africa : studies in social and economic change / edited by Nancy J. Hafkin and Edna G. Bay.
Publication
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 1976.

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Additional Authors
  • Hafkin, Nancy J.
  • Bay, Edna G.
Description
x, 306 pages : maps; 23 cm
Summary
Compilation of field studies based on interdisciplinary research concerning African women as agents of social change in various historical and political aspects - seeks to improve research methods for study of these women and their social role. Bibliography pp. 285 to 298.
Subject
  • Women > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Social conditions
  • Women > Africa, Sub-Saharan > Economic conditions
  • Women > Economic conditions
  • Women > Social conditions
  • Frau
  • Vrouwen
  • Sociale verandering
  • interdisciplinary research
  • women
  • social change
  • history
  • political aspect
  • research method
  • social role
  • Women > Africa > Economic conditions
  • Women > Africa > Social conditions
  • recherche interdisciplinaire
  • femmes
  • changement social
  • histoire
  • aspect politique
  • méthode de recherche
  • rôle social
  • investigación interdisciplinaria
  • mujeres
  • cambio social
  • historia
  • aspecto político
  • método de investigación
  • papel social
  • Sub-Saharan Africa
  • Afrika
  • Africa
  • Afrique
Genre/Form
  • field study.
  • bibliography.
  • étude sur le terrain.
  • bibliographie.
  • estudio sobre el terreno.
  • bibliografía.
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [285]-298.
Contents
The limitations of group action among entrepreneurs: the market women of Abidjan, Ivory Coast / Barbara C. Lewis -- Rebels or status-seekers? Women as spirit mediums in East Africa / Iris Berger -- From lelemama to lobbying: women's associations in Mombasa, Kenya / Margaret Strobel -- Protestant women's associations in Freetown, Sierra Leone / Filomina Chiomasteady -- Women and economic change in Africa / Leith Mullings -- Less than second-class: women in rural settlement schemes in Tanzania / James L. Brain.
ISBN
  • 0804709068
  • 9780804709064
  • 0804710112
  • 9780804710114
LCCN
75044901
OCLC
  • ocm02550958
  • 2550958
  • SCSB-174592
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library