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Courtyards, Markets, City Streets - Urban Women in Africa

Inglese · Tascabile

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Informationen zum Autor Kathleen Sheldon Klappentext This book brings women into the center of the urban landscape, using case studies to illustrate their contributions to family, community, work, and political life. It discusses how women's work in trade and agriculture has been the foundation of African urbanization. Zusammenfassung This book brings women into the center of the urban landscape, using case studies to illustrate their contributions to family, community, work, and political life. It discusses how women's work in trade and agriculture has been the foundation of African urbanization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface -- Introduction -- Urban African Women: Courtyards, Markets, City Streets -- Migration and Urbanization -- South African Women and Migration in Umtata, Transkei, 1880–1935 -- Transitions in Kenyan Patriarchy: Attempts to Control Nairobi Area Traders, 1920–1963 -- Three Generations of Hausa Women in Kaduna, Nigeria, 1925–1985 -- Courtyards: Marriage, Family, and Housing -- Washing Dirty Laundry in Public: Local Courts, Custom, and Gender Relations in Postcolonial Lusaka -- Can Polygyny Be Avoided in Dakar? -- Health, Gender Relations, and Poverty in the AIDS Era -- Moving and Coping: Women Tenants in Gweru, Zimbabwe -- Markets: Work and Survival -- Women in Business: Class and Nairobi’s Small and Medium-Sized Producers -- Beyond Simple Survival: Women Microentrepreneurs in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe -- Prostitution, a Petit-métier During Economic Crisis: A Road to Women's Liberation? The Case of Cameroo -- City Streets: Politics and Community -- "I Am with You as Never Before": Women in Urban Protest Movements, Alexandra Township, South Africa, 1912–1945 -- Urban Women's Movements and Political Liberalization in East Africa

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