Courtyards, markets, city streets urba n women in Africa / [electronic resource] : edited by Kathleen Sheldon. - Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, c1996. - viii, 342 p. : map ; 24 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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Urban African women: courtyards, markets , city streets / South African women and migration in Umtata, Transkei, 18 00-1935 / Transitions in Kenyan patriarchy: attem pts to control Nairobi area traders, 1920-1963 / Three generations of Hausa women in Kaduna, Nigeria, 1925-1985 / Washing dirty laundry in public: local courts, custom, a nd gender relations in postcolonial Lusaka / Can polygyny be avoided in Dakar? / Health, gender relations, and poverty in the AIDS er a / Moving and coping: women tenants in Gweru, Zimbabwe / Women in business: class and Nairobi's small and medium-s ized producers / Kathleen Sheldon -- Sean Redding -- Claire C. Robertson -- Catherine M. Coles -- Karen Tranberg Hansen - - Philippe Antoine and Jeanne Nanitelamio -- Brooke Grundfest Schoepf -- Miriam Grant -- Dorothy McCormick -- Part 1: Introduction. -- Part 2: Migration and urbani zation. -- Part 3: Courtyards: marriage, family, and housing. -- Part 4: Markets: work and su rvival. -- Beyone simple survival: women microentrepreneurs in Harare and Bulaw ayo, Zimbabwe / Prostitution, a petit-mét ier during economic crisis: a road to women's liberation? The case of C ameroon / 'I am with you as never before': women in urban pr otest movements, Alexandra Township, South Africa, 1912-1945 / Urban women's movements and political liberalization in East Africa / Mary Johnson Osirim -- Paulette Beat Songue -- John Nauright -- Aili Mari Tripp. Part 5: City streets: politics and community. --


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