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Women, education, and modernization of the family in West Africa

Title
Women, education, and modernization of the family in West Africa / edited by Helen Ware.
Publication
Canberra : Dept. of Demography, Australian National University ; Miami, Fla. : Distributed by Australian National University Press, 1981.

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Additional Authors
Ware, Helen Ruth Elizabeth.
Description
xxix, 178 pages; 25 cm.
Summary
Collection of studies on the social implications of the education of women for the traditional culture of the West African family - discusses male and female attitudes to working mothers and the woman worker, and the relationship between educational level, fertility and polygamy. Bibliography, references and statistical tables.
Series Statement
Changing African family project series ; monograph no. 7
Uniform Title
Changing African family project series ; monograph no. 7.
Subject
  • Women > Africa, West
  • Families > Africa, West
  • Education > Africa, West
  • Education
  • Families
  • Women
  • social implication
  • education of women
  • traditional culture
  • family
  • attitude
  • working mother
  • women workers
  • educational level
  • fertility
  • polygamy
  • statistical table
  • conséquences sociales
  • éducation des femmes
  • culture traditionnelle
  • famille
  • mère exerçant un emploi
  • travailleuses
  • niveau d'enseignement
  • fécondité
  • polygamie
  • tableau statistique
  • consecuencias sociales
  • educación de la mujer
  • cultura tradicional
  • familia
  • actitud
  • trabajadora madre de familia
  • trabajadoras
  • nivel educativo
  • fecundidad
  • poligamia
  • cuadros estadísticos
  • West Africa
  • West Africa
  • Afrique occidentale
  • Africa Occidental
Genre/Form
  • bibliography.
  • reference.
  • bibliographie.
  • référence bibliographique.
  • bibliografía.
  • referencia.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographies.
ISBN
  • 0909409129
  • 9780909409128
LCCN
81068948
OCLC
  • ocm08906707
  • 8906707
  • SCSB-65891
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library