African Women

  • African Women: Their Struggle for Economic Independence
    By Christine Obbo

    To name only a few in addition to those in notes 5 and 9 : Margaret Mead , Ruth Benedict , Ruth Bunzel , H. Powdermaker , J. La Fontaine , Laura Bohannan , L. Spindler , Elinor Leacock , Monica Wilson , Lucy Mair , Dora Earthy ...

  • African Women: A Modern History
    By Catherine Coquery-vidrovitch

    Lilian P. Sanderson, Against the Mutilation of Women, London, Ithaca Press, 1981, p. 29. 18. Hanny Lightfoot-Klein, "Pharaonic Circumcision of Females in the Sudan," Medicine and Law, vol. 2, 1983, pp. 353-360. 19.

  • African Women: A Modern History
    By Catherine Coquery-vidrovitch

    With its breadth of coverage and clear analysis of complex questions, this book is destined to become a standard text for scholars and students alike.

  • African Women: Early History to the 21st Century
    By Kathleen Sheldon

    In African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, Kathleen Sheldon masterfully delivers a comprehensive study of this expansive story from before the time of records to the present day.

  • African Women: Three Generations
    By Mark Mathabane

    In African Women, the author of the highly acclaimed and best-selling memoir Kaffir Boy tells the deeply moving, often shocking, but ultimately inspiring stories of his grandmother, mother, and sister....

  • African Women: A Political Economy
    By M. Turshen

    This book will present three main themes of African women: African feminism, women and work, and women and politics, to inform readers of the current debates, to encourage new thinking on these issues, and to indicate areas for needed ...