| Description |
xv, 361 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Changing the meaning of marriage: women and family law in Cote d'Ivoire / Jeanne Maddox Toungara -- Wives, children, and intestate succession in Ghana / Takyiwaa Manuh -- Pleas for domestic relief: Akan women and family courts / Gwendolyn Mikell -- Swazi women workers in cottage industries and factories / Betty J. Harris -- Alcohol and politics in urban Zambia: the intersection of gender and class / Ilsa M. Glazer -- Women's roles in settlement and resettlement in Mali / Dolores Koenig -- Ethiopian rural women and the state / Tsehai Berhane-Selassie -- Women and grassroots politics in Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire / Carlene H. Dei -- Kenyan women in politics and public decision making / Maria Nzomo -- "Our women keep our skies from falling": women's networks and survival imperatives in Tshunyane, South Africa / Shawn Riva Donaldson -- Technology and the fuel crisis: adjustment among women in Northern Nigeria / D.J. Shehu -- Swazi traditional healers, role transformation, and gender / Enid Gort -- AIDS, gender and sexuality during Africa's economic crisis / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf -- Conclusions: theorizing and strategizing about African women and state crisis / Gwendolyn Mikell. |
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Women in development -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Feminism -- Africa, Sub-Saharan.
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Women -- Africa, Sub-Saharan -- Social conditions.
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AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA.
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Feminisme.
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Sociaal-economische situatie.
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Women.
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Women in development.
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Women's rights.
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WOMEN'S STATUS.
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Feminism. (OCoLC)fst00922671
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Women in development. (OCoLC)fst01177865
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Women -- Social conditions.
(OCoLC)fst01176947
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Africa, Sub-Saharan. (OCoLC)fst01239520
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Feminisme.
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Sociaal-economische situatie.
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Frau.
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Schwarzafrika.
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WOMEN.
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WOMEN'S STATUS.
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WOMEN'S RIGHTS.
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WOMEN IN DEVELOPMENT.
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AFRICA SOUTH OF SAHARA.
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Feminismus. (DE-588)4222126-2
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Frau. (DE-588)4018202-2
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Frauenbewegung. (DE-588)4071428-7
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Soziale Situation. (DE-588)4077575-6
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Überlebensstrategie. (DE-588)4186608-3
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Subsaharisches Afrika. (DE-588)4053770-5
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| Added Author |
Mikell, Gwendolyn.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: African feminism. Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©1997 (OCoLC)607687503 |
| ISBN |
0812233492 (alk. paper) |
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9780812233490 (alk. paper) |
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081221580X (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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9780812215809 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
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