Readings in gender in Africa - Cornwall, Andrea, 1963-; International African institute; American Council of Learned Societies (Bloomington : Indiana University Press ; Oxford : James Cur rey, 2005)
Women "entrepreneurs" of early Nairobi / Janet M. Bujra -- Bag anda women's night market activities / Nakanyike B. Musisi -- Shu nting between masculine ideals : Nigerian railwaymen in the colonial er a / Lisa A. Lindsay -- Rebels or status seekers? : women as spiri t mediums in east Africa / Iris Berger -- Reflections on slavery, seclusion, & female labor in the Maradi region of Niger in the 19th & 20th centuries / Barbara Cooper -- Gender, culture, & capitalism : women & the remaking of Islamic tradition in a Sudanese village / Victorial Bernal -- Devout domesticity? : a century of African women 's Christianity in South Africa / Deborah Gaitskell -- "Called to work for the kingdom of God" : the challenge of Presybyterian masculin ities in colonial Ghana / Stephan F. Miescher -- Iyalode in the t raditional Yoruba political system / Bolanle Awe -- Rounding up s pinsters : gender chaos & unmarried women in colonial Asante / Jean Allmann -- Tanganyikan nationalism as "women's work" : life historie s, collective biography, & changing historiography / Susan Geiger -- Gender & decolonization : a study of three women in west African pu blic life / Laray Denzer -- No shortcuts to power : constraints o n women's political effectiveness in Uganda / Anne Marie Goetz -- Women in movement : transformations in African political landscapes / Aili Mari Tripp.
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Keywords: Sex role; Women -- Africa -- Social conditions; Masculinity -- Africa; Sex (Psychology)