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| Document Type: | Book |
|---|---|
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dorothy Louise Hodgson; Sheryl McCurdy |
| ISBN: | 0325070059 9780325070056 0325070040 9780325070049 0852556950 9780852556955 0852556454 9780852556450 |
| OCLC Number: | 44425372 |
| Description: | xv, 325 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Women, marriage, divorce and the emerging Colonial state in Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1892-1904 / Judith Byfield -- "She thinks she's like a man": marriage and (de)constructing gender identity in Colonial Buha, Western Tanzania, 1943-1960 / Margot Lovett -- Wayward women and useless men : contest and change in gender relations in Ado-Odo / Andrea Cornwall -- "Gone to their second husbands": marital metaphors and conjugal contracts in the Gambia's female garden sector / Richard A. Schroeder -- Dancing women and Colonial men: the Nwaobiala of 1925 / Misty L. Bastian -- Rounding up spinsters : gender chaos and unmarried women in Colonial Asante / Jean Allman -- "My daughter...belongs to the government now" : marriage, Maasai, and the Tanzanian state / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- Gender and the cultural construction of "bad women" in the development of Kampala-Kibuga, 1900-1962 / Nakanyike B. Musisi -- You have left me wandering about: Basotho women and the culture of mobility / David B. Coplan -- Urban threats : Manyema women, low fertility, and venereal diseases in Tanganyika, 1926-1936 / Sheryl A. McCurdy -- Negotiating social independence : the challenges of career pursuits for Igbo women in Postcolonial Nigeria / Philomena E. Okeke -- Politics of difference and women's associations in Niger: of "prostitutes," the public, and politics / Barbara M. Cooper -- "Wicked women" and "respectable ladies" : reconfiguring gender on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1936-1964 / Jane L. Parpart -- Gender and profiteering: Ghana's market women as devoted mothers and "human vampire bats" / Gracia Clark. |
| Series Title: | Social history of Africa |
| Responsibility: | edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl A. McCurdy. |
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