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African women: a modern history

Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch and Beth Gillian Raps
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xiii)
  • Introduction (page 1)
  • Part One: Nineteenth-Century Women
    • 1 Peasant Women (page 9)
    • 2 Slave Women (page 21)
    • 3 Women and Trade at the Dawn of Colonialism (page 30)
    • 4 Powerful Women (page 34)
    • 5 Female Identity and Culture (page 45)
  • Part Two: From the Country to the City
    • 6 Rural Women and Colonialism (page 59)
    • 7 Women and Urban Migration (page 73)
  • Part Three: Women in the City from Colonization to Independence
    • 8 The Urban Condition (page 89)
    • 9 Women and Trade (page 94)
    • 10 Domestic Service (page 109)
    • 11 Prostitution: From "Free" Women to Women with AIDS (page 117)
    • 12 Women and Factory Work (page 129)
    • 13 Women and Poverty: The Future of Female Informal-Sector Employment (page 136)
  • Part Four: Women and Modern Life
    • 14 Women and School (page 143)
    • 15 Women and Politics: Resistance and Action in West Africa (page 159)
    • 16 Women and Politics: Delay in Zaire (page 184)
    • 17 Women and Politics: The Wars for National Liberation (page 188)
    • 18 Sexuality and Emancipation (page 200)
  • Conclusion: The Future (page 231)
  • Notes (page 235)
  • Bibliography: African Women in Modern History (page 265)
  • About the Book and Author (page 286)
  • Index (page 287)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
IA 73.4 (Oct. 1997): 789-790 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2624490
CJAS 32.2 (1998): 402-404 http://www.jstor.org/stable/486160
AANTH 101.1 (Mar. 1999): 223-224 http://www.jstor.org/stable/683399
AHR 103.1 (Feb. 1998): 244 http://www.jstor.org/stable/2650900
IJAHS 31.2 (1998): 462-463 http://www.jstor.org/stable/221147
AAF 97.389 (Oct. 1998): 584-585 http://www.jstor.org/stable/723359
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Published: 1997
Publisher: Westview Press
Copyright Holder: Taylor & Francis
ISBN(s)
  • 9780813323602 (hardcover)
  • 9780813323619 (paper)
  • 9780429502491 (ebook)
Subject
  • Women's Studies
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