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Title:

Courtyards, markets, city streets : urban women in Africa / edited by Kathleen Sheldon.

Publisher:

Westview Press,

Copyright Date:

1996

Description:

viii, 342 p. : maps ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Urban women--Africa.

Other Authors:

Sheldon, Kathleen E., 1952-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-328) and index.

Contents:

Part 5: City streets: politics and community. -- Urban women's movements and political liberalization in East Africa / Aili Mari Tripp. 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.

ISBN:

9780813386867 (paper : alk. paper)
0813386861 (paper : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)34933971

LCCN:

96026118

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)