Kathleen Sheldon

Courtyards, Markets, City Streets

Urban Women In Africa

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 513g
• ISBN-13: 9780813386867
• ISBN-10: 0813386861
• Artikelnr.: 21488601

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Sheldon

Inhaltsangabe

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