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African encounters with domesticity

Title
  1. African encounters with domesticity / edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen.
Published by
  1. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c1992.

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Additional authors
  1. Hansen, Karen Tranberg.
Description
  1. xii, 315 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  1. Sex role > Africa
  2. Sexual division of labor > Africa
  3. Home economics > Africa
  4. Home > Africa
  5. Women > Africa > Social conditions
Contents
  1. Domesticity in Africa / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Home-made hegemony : modernity, domesticity, and colonialism in South Africa / Jean and John L. Comaroff -- Harem domesticity in Kano, Nigeria / Beverly B. Mack -- Civilized servants : child fosterage and training for status among the Glebo of Liberia / Mary H. Moran -- Domestic science training in colonial Yorubaland, Nigeria / LaRay Denzer -- Colonial fairy tales and the knife and fork doctrine in the heart of Africa / Nancy Rose Hunt -- Colonial and missionary education : women and domesticity in Uganda, 1900-1945 / Nakanyike B. Musisi -- "Educating Eve" : the women's club movement and political consciousness among rural African women in Southern Rhodesia, 1950-1980 / Sita Ranchod-Nilsson -- Race, sex, and domestic labor : the question of African female servants in Southern Rhodesia, 1900-1939 / Elizabeth Schmidt -- Men at work in the Tanzanian home / Janet M. Bujra -- Cookstoves and charcoal braziers : culinary practices, gender, and class in Zambia / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Creches, titias, and mothers : working women and child care in Mozambique / Kathleen Sheldon.
Call number
  1. Sc D 92-991
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Title
  1. African encounters with domesticity / edited by Karen Tranberg Hansen.
Imprint
  1. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c1992.
Bibliography
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added author
  1. Hansen, Karen Tranberg.
LCCN
  1. 91032144
ISBN
  1. 0813518032 (cloth) : $42.00
  2. 0813518040 (pbk.) : $16.00
Research call number
  1. Sc D 92-991
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