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Women and work in Africa

Edna G Bay
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  • Frontmatter
  • List of Tables and Figures (page ix)
  • Preface (page xi)
  • Maps (page xiii)
  • Introduction (EDNA G. BAY, page 1)
  • SECTION I WOMEN'S PRODUCTION OUTSIDE THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
    • 1. Women, Work, and Ethnicity: The Sierra Leone Case (E. FRANCES WHITE, page 19)
    • 2. Control of Land, Labor, and Capital in Rural Southern Sierra Leone (CAROL P. MACCORMACK, page 35)
    • 3. Dependence and Autonomy: The Economic Activities of Secluded Hausa Women in Kano, Nigeria (ENID SCHILDKROUT, page 55)
  • SECTION II ECONOMIC CHANGE AND IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICT
    • 4. Women and Agricultural Change in the Railway Region of Zambia: Dispossession and Counterstrategies, 1930-1970 (MAUD SHIMWAAYI MUNTEMBA, page 83)
    • 5. Marginal Lives: Conflict and Contradiction in the Position of Female Traders in Lusaka, Zambia (ILSA SCHUSTER, page 105)
    • 6. Colonialism, Education, and Work: Sex Differentiation in Colonial Zaire (BARBARA A. YATES, page 127)
    • 7. Reinventing the Past and Circumscribing the Future: Authenticité and the Negative Image of Women's Work in Zaire (FRANCILLE RUSAN WILSON, page 153)
  • SECTION III DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF DEVELOPMENT POLICIES
    • 8. International Development and the Evolution of Women's Economic Roles: A Case Study from Northern Gulma, Upper Volta (GRACE S. HEMMINGS-GAPIHAN, page 171)
    • 9. Women's Work in a Communal Setting: The Tanzanian Policy of Ujamaa (LOUISE FORTMANN, page 191)
    • 10. Women Farmers and Inequities in Agricultural Services (KATHLEEN A. STAUDT, page 207)
    • 11. Women's Employment and Development: A Conceptual Framework Applied to Ghana (WILLIAM F. STEEL AND CLAUDIA CAMPBELL, page 225)
  • SECTION IV WOMEN AND WORK IN AFRICA: PRESENT AND FUTURE
    • 12. Fertility and Employment: An Assessment of Role Incompatibility among African Urban Women (BARBARA LEWIS, page 249)
    • 13. The Child-Care Dilemma of Working Mothers in African Cities: The Case of Lagos, Nigeria (ELEANOR R. FAPOHUNDA, page 277)
    • 14. Women's Cooperative Thrift and Credit Societies: An Element of Women's Programs in the Gambia (COUMBA CEESAY-MARENAH, page 289)
  • Notes on Contributors (page 297)
  • Index (page 301)
  • Past Symposia of African Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (page 310)
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Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
IJAHS 16.2 (1983): 308-310 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0361-7882%281983%2916%3A2%3C308%3AWAWIA%3E2.0.CO%3B2-I
CS 12.5 (Sep. 1983): 495-497 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0094-3061%28198309%2912%3A5%3C495%3ARWWTR%3E2.0.CO%3B2-1
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Published: 1982
Publisher: Westview Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780865313125 (hardcover)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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