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Women and education in Sub-Saharan Africa : power, opportunities, and constraints

Author: Marianne N Bloch; Josephine A Beoku-Betts; B Robert Tabachnick
Publisher: Boulder : L. Rienner Publishers, 1998.
Series: Women and change in the developing world.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Marianne N Bloch; Josephine A Beoku-Betts; B Robert Tabachnick
ISBN: 1555877044 9781555877040
OCLC Number: 38258022
Notes: Based on a conference held at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Description: xv, 320 p. ; 24 cm.
Contents: Gender and educational research, policy and practice in Sub-Saharan Africa : Theoretical and empirical problems and prospects / Marianne Bloch and Frances Vavrus --
Agents in women's education: Some trends in the African context / Nelly Stromquist --
Rites and reason: Precolonial education and its relevance to the current production and transmission of knowledge / Lynda R. Day --
Beyond the three food groups: nutrition education for women in Africa / Joanne Csete --
Women and nonformal education in West Africa: policy and practice / Polly Diven --
Inside classrooms in Guinea: Girls' experiences / Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt, Marianne Bloch, and Aminata Maiga Soumaré --
Gender and classroom interactions in Liberia / Mary B. Brenner --
Gender and formal education in Africa: an exploration of the opportunity structure at the secondary and tertiary levels / Josephine A. Beoku-Betts --
"Education is my husband": Marriage, gender and reproduction in Northern Tanzania / Amy Stambach --
Single-sex schooling and its effects on Nigerian adolescents / Valerie E. Lee and Marlaine E. Lockheed --
Gender and education in rural South Africa / Adele Gordon, Doris Nkwe, and Mellony Graven --
The status of women in Southern Nigeria: Is education a help or a hindrance? / Marida Hollos --
Searching for Utopia: The politics of gender and education in Tanzania / Marjorie Mbilinyi --
Using the past to fashion an expanding future / B. Robert Tabachnick and Josephine A. Beoku-Betts.
Series Title: Women and change in the developing world.
Responsibility: edited by Marianne Bloch, Josephine A. Beoku-Betts, B. Robert Tabachnick.

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