Women in Africa Studies in Social and Economic Change

Name: Women in Africa Studies in Social and Economic Change
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ISBN: 9780804710114

ISBN-10: 0804710112

ISBN-13: 9780804710114

Edition: 1976

Authors: Nancy J. Hafkin, Edna G. Bay

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This collection of papers-all but one previously unpublished-presents the results of recent field research in the disciplines of history, political science, anthropology, sociology, and economics. The chief emphasis here is on change: on viewing African women as agents of change from the first arrival of Europeans to the present; and on seeking to change the perspective from which African women have been studied in the past.The papers encompass settings as diverse as eighteenth-century Senegal and contemporary Mozambique. Politically and socially, too, the local settings are various, including an Igbo village, the marketplaces of Abidjan and Accra, a development scheme in rural Tanzania,…

Book details

List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 1976
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Publication date: 6/1/1976
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Edna Bay is an associate professor in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory University and the author of Wives of the Leopard: Gender, Politics, and Culture in the Kingdom of Dahomey and other works.



Preface


Contributors


Introduction


The Signares of Saint-Louis and Gorï¿½e: Women Entrepreneurs in Eighteenth-Century Senegal


The Dual-Sex Political System in Operation: Igbo Women and Community Politics in Midwestern Nigeria


'Aba Riots' Or Igbo 'Women's War'? Ideology, Stratification, and the Invisibility of Women


Luo Women and Economic Change During the Colonial Period


The LImitations of Group Action Among Entrepreneurs: the Market Women of Abidjan, IVory Coast


Rebels Or Status-Seekers? Women as Spirit Mediums in East Africa


From Lelemama to Lobbying: Women's Associations in Mombasa, Kenya


Protestant Women's Associations in Freetown, Sierra Leone


Introduction


Women and Economic Change in Africa


Less Than Second-Class: Women in Rural Settlement Schemes in Tanzania


Reference Matter


References Cited


Index