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Women and class in Africa
Claire C. Robertson and Iris Berger
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Frontmatter
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1. Introduction: Analyzing Class and Gender‒African Perspectives (Claire Robertson and Iris Berger, page 3)
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I. Access to Critical Resources
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2. Kikuyu Women's Self‐Help Groups: Toward an Understanding of the Relation Between Sex‐Gender System and Mode of Production in Africa (Patricia Stamp, page 27)
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3. The Commoditization of Women in Tugen (Kenya) Social Organization (Bonnie Kettel, page 47)
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4. Matriliny, Patriliny, and Class Formation Among Women Cocoa Farmers in Two Rural Areas of Ghana (Dorothy Dee Vellenga, page 62)
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5. Land Control: A Critical Factor in Yoruba Gender Stratification (Simi Afonja, page 78)
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6. Women's Education and Class Formation in Africa, 1950‒1980 (Claire Robertson, page pa92)
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II. Dependence versus Autonomy
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7. "Urging Women to Redouble Their Efforts...": Class, Gender, and Capitalist Transformation in Africa (Janet M. Bujra, page 117)
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8. Class and Gender on the Copperbelt: Women in Northern Rhodesian Copper Mining Communities, 1926‒1964 (Jane L. Parpart, page 141)
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9. Women and Class Formation in a Dependent Economy: Kisangani Entrepreneurs (Janet MacGaffey, page 161)
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10. Stratification and the Lives of Women in Uganda (Christine Obbo, page 178)
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11. Stratification: Implications for Women's Politics (Kathleen Staudt, page 197)
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12. Sources of Class Consciousness: South African Women in Recent Labor Struggles (Iris Berger, page 216)
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13. Class and Gender: A Consideration of Yoruba Women during the Colonial Period (Cheryl Johnson, page 237)
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14. Labor Unrest Among Kikuyu Women in Colonial Kenya (Cora Ann Presley, page 255)
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Bibliography (page 274)
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Index (page 297)
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About the Contributors (page 309)
Journal Abbreviation | Label | URL |
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GS | 1.2 (Jun.,1987): 225-227 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/189952 |
PDR | 13.3 (Sep. 1987): 561 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1973152 |
JMAS | 25.4 (Dec. 1987): 691-692 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/160950 |
IJAHS | 20.4 (1987): 749-750 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/219675 |
AFSR | 31.2 (Sep. 1988): 156-157 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/524429 |
CJAS | 22.3 (1988): 677-680 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/485968 |
WRB | 4.3 (Dec. 1986): 6-7 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/4019895 |
AHR | 92.5 (Dec. 1987): 1245 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/1868586 |
AEH | 16 (1987): 115-122 | http://www.jstor.org/stable/3601272 |
Citable Link
Published: 1986
Publisher: Africana Publishing
- 9780841911871 (paper)
- 9780841909793 (hardcover)