Includes bibliographical references (p. 309-328) and index.

Part 1: Introduction. -- Urban African women: courtyards, markets , city streets / Kathleen Sheldon -- Part 2: Migration and urbani zation. -- South African women and migration in Umtata, Transkei, 18 00-1935 / Sean Redding -- Transitions in Kenyan patriarchy: attem pts to control Nairobi area traders, 1920-1963 / Claire C. Robertson -- Three generations of Hausa women in Kaduna, Nigeria, 1925-1985 / Catherine M. Coles -- Part 3: Courtyards: marriage, family, and housing. -- Washing dirty laundry in public: local courts, custom, a nd gender relations in postcolonial Lusaka / Karen Tranberg Hansen - - Can polygyny be avoided in Dakar? / Philippe Antoine and Jeanne Nanitelamio -- Health, gender relations, and poverty in the AIDS er a / Brooke Grundfest Schoepf -- Moving and coping: women tenants in Gweru, Zimbabwe / Miriam Grant -- Part 4: Markets: work and su rvival. -- Women in business: class and Nairobi's small and medium-s ized producers / Dorothy McCormick --

Beyone simple survival: women microentrepreneurs in Harare and Bulaw ayo, Zimbabwe / Mary Johnson Osirim -- Prostitution, a petit-mét ier during economic crisis: a road to women's liberation? The case of C ameroon / Paulette Beat Songue -- Part 5: City streets: politics and community. -- 'I am with you as never before': women in urban pr otest movements, Alexandra Township, South Africa, 1912-1945 / John Nauright -- Urban women's movements and political liberalization in East Africa / Aili Mari Tripp.

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