ACLS Humanities E-Book: Women and work in Africa

Women and work in Africa

Bay, Edna G.

Year: 1982.

Publisher: Westview Press.

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table of contents

Frontmatter

List of Tables and Figures

Preface

Maps

Introduction

SECTION I WOMEN'S PRODUCTION OUTSIDE THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS

1. Women, Work, and Ethnicity: The Sierra Leone Case

2. Control of Land, Labor, and Capital in Rural Southern Sierra Leone

3. Dependence and Autonomy: The Economic Activities of Secluded Hausa Women in Kano, Nigeria

SECTION II ECONOMIC CHANGE AND IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICT

4. Women and Agricultural Change in the Railway Region of Zambia: Dispossession and Counterstrategies, 1930-1970

5. Marginal Lives: Conflict and Contradiction in the Position of Female Traders in Lusaka, Zambia

6. Colonialism, Education, and Work: Sex Differentiation in Colonial Zaire

7. Reinventing the Past and Circumscribing the Future: Authenticité and the Negative Image of Women's Work in Zaire

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

9. Women's Work in a Communal Setting: The Tanzanian Policy of Ujamaa

10. Women Farmers and Inequities in Agricultural Services

11. Women's Employment and Development: A Conceptual Framework Applied to Ghana

SECTION IV WOMEN AND WORK IN AFRICA: PRESENT AND FUTURE

12. Fertility and Employment: An Assessment of Role Incompatibility among African Urban Women

13. The Child-Care Dilemma of Working Mothers in African Cities: The Case of Lagos, Nigeria

14. Women's Cooperative Thrift and Credit Societies: An Element of Women's Programs in the Gambia

Notes on Contributors

Index

Past Symposia of African Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Title:

Women and work in Africa : edited by Edna G. Bay.

Author:

Bay, Edna G

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Women and work in Africa : edited by Edna G. Bay.
Bay, Edna G
Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1982.

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http://hdl.handle.net/2027/heb.04118

Subject Headings:

• Women -- Employment -- Africa -- Congresses

Notes:

• Based on the 1979 spring symposium of the African studies program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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