Courtyards, markets, city streets : urban women in Africa

Title
  1. Courtyards, markets, city streets : urban women in Africa / edited by Kathleen Sheldon.
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  1. Boulder, Colo. : WestviewPress, ©1996.

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Additional authors
  1. Sheldon, Kathleen E., 1952-
Description
  1. viii, 342 pages : map; 24 cm
Alternative title
  1. Urban women in Africa
Subject
  1. Urban women > Africa
  2. Urban women
  3. Einkommen
  4. Stadtleben
  5. Stadtbevölkerung
  6. Frau
  7. Vrouwen
  8. Steden
  9. Women > Africa
  10. Africa, Sub-Saharan
  11. Africa South of the Sahara
  12. Sub-Saharan Africa
  13. Africa
  14. Subsaharisches Afrika
Contents
  1. Part 1: Introduction. -- Urban African women: courtyards, markets, city streets / Kathleen Sheldon -- Part 2: Migration and urbanization. -- South African women and migration in Umtata, Transkei, 1800-1935 / Sean Redding -- Transitions in Kenyan patriarchy: attempts to control Nairobi area traders, 1920-1963 / Claire C. Robertson -- Three generations of Hausa women in Kaduna, Nigeria, 1925-1985 / Catherine M. Coles -- Part 3: Courtyards: marriage, family, and housing. -- Washing dirty laundry in public: local courts, custom, and gender relations in postcolonial Lusaka / Karen Tranberg Hansen -- Can polygyny be avoided in Dakar? / Philippe Antoine and Jeanne Nanitelamio -- Health, gender relations, and poverty in the AIDS era / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf -- Moving and coping: women tenants in Gweru, Zimbabwe / Miriam Grant -- Part 4: Markets: work and survival. -- Women in business: class and Nairobi's small and medium-sized producers / Dorothy McCormick -- Beyond simple survival: women microentrepreneurs in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe / Mary Johnson Osirim -- Prostitution, a petit-métier during economic crisis: a road to women's liberation? The case of Cameroon / Paulette Beat Songue -- Part 5: City streets: politics and community. -- 'I am with you as never before': women in urban protest movements, Alexandra Township, South Africa, 1912-1945 / John Nauright -- Urban women's movements and political liberalization in East Africa / Aili Mari Tripp.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-328) and index.