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Women and work in Africa
Edna G Bay-
Frontmatter
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List of Tables and Figures (page ix)
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Preface (page xi)
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Maps (page xiii)
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Introduction (EDNA G. BAY, page 1)
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SECTION I WOMEN'S PRODUCTION OUTSIDE THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS
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1. Women, Work, and Ethnicity: The Sierra Leone Case (E. FRANCES WHITE, page 19)
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2. Control of Land, Labor, and Capital in Rural Southern Sierra Leone (CAROL P. MACCORMACK, page 35)
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3. Dependence and Autonomy: The Economic Activities of Secluded Hausa Women in Kano, Nigeria (ENID SCHILDKROUT, page 55)
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SECTION II ECONOMIC CHANGE AND IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICT
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4. Women and Agricultural Change in the Railway Region of Zambia: Dispossession and Counterstrategies, 1930-1970 (MAUD SHIMWAAYI MUNTEMBA, page 83)
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5. Marginal Lives: Conflict and Contradiction in the Position of Female Traders in Lusaka, Zambia (ILSA SCHUSTER, page 105)
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6. Colonialism, Education, and Work: Sex Differentiation in Colonial Zaire (BARBARA A. YATES, page 127)
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7. Reinventing the Past and Circumscribing the Future: Authenticité and the Negative Image of Women's Work in Zaire (FRANCILLE RUSAN WILSON, page 153)
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SECTION III DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF DEVELOPMENT POLICIES
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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)
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9. Women's Work in a Communal Setting: The Tanzanian Policy of Ujamaa (LOUISE FORTMANN, page 191)
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10. Women Farmers and Inequities in Agricultural Services (KATHLEEN A. STAUDT, page 207)
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11. Women's Employment and Development: A Conceptual Framework Applied to Ghana (WILLIAM F. STEEL AND CLAUDIA CAMPBELL, page 225)
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SECTION IV WOMEN AND WORK IN AFRICA: PRESENT AND FUTURE
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12. Fertility and Employment: An Assessment of Role Incompatibility among African Urban Women (BARBARA LEWIS, page 249)
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13. The Child-Care Dilemma of Working Mothers in African Cities: The Case of Lagos, Nigeria (ELEANOR R. FAPOHUNDA, page 277)
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14. Women's Cooperative Thrift and Credit Societies: An Element of Women's Programs in the Gambia (COUMBA CEESAY-MARENAH, page 289)
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Notes on Contributors (page 297)
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Index (page 301)
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Past Symposia of African Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (page 310)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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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
- 9780865313125 (hardcover)