Kathleen Sheldon

Courtyards, Markets, City Streets (eBook, PDF)

Urban Women In Africa

• Format: PDF

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: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429969799
• Artikelnr.: 54145574

Autorenporträt

Kathleen Sheldon

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Introduction
1 Urban African Women: Courtyards, Markets, City Streets
Part 2 Migration and Urbanization
2 South African Women and Migration in Umtata, Transkei, 1880
1935
3 Transitions in Kenyan Patriarchy: Attempts to Control Nairobi Area Traders, 1920
1963
4 Three Generations of Hausa Women in Kaduna, Nigeria, 1925
1985
Part 3 Courtyards: Marriage, Family, and Housing
5 Washing Dirty Laundry in Public: Local Courts, Custom, and Gender Relations in Postcolonial Lusaka
6 Can Polygyny Be Avoided in Dakar?
7 Health, Gender Relations, and Poverty in the AIDS Era
8 Moving and Coping: Women Tenants in Gweru, Zimbabwe
Part 4 Markets: Work and Survival
9 Women in Business: Class and Nairobi's Small and Medium
Sized Producers
10 Beyond Simple Survival: Women Microentrepreneurs in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe
11 Prostitution, a Petit
metier During Economic Crisis: A Road to Women's Liberation? The Case of Cameroo
Part 5 City Streets: Politics and Community
12 "I Am with You as Never Before": Women in Urban Protest Movements, Alexandra Township, South Africa, 1912
1945
13 Urban Women's Movements and Political Liberalization in East Africa