Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

"These four volumes in this major series... provide a single-source reference to the status of the field of women's history and to ways that the field can be expanded.... A basic set for all academic libraries." -- Library Journal Academic NewswireBerger and White focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, tracing women's history from earliest times to the present. By exploring their place in social, economic, political, and religious life, the authors highlight the changing societal position of women through shifts over time in ideas about gender and the connections between women's public and private spheres.

Iris Berger is Professor of History, Africana studies, and women's studiesat the University at Albany, State University of New York. She is alsopast director of the Institute for Research on women and recentlycompleted a term as president of the African Studies Association. She isauthor of Threads of Solidarity: Women in South African Industry,1900-1980 and Religion and Resistance: East African Kingdoms in thePrecolonial Period, and co-editor of Women and Class in Africa.

E. Frances White is Professor and Dean of the Gallatin School ofIndividualized Study at New York University. She writes on African women'shistory and feminist theory. Her publications include Sierra Leone'sSettler Women Traders: Women on the Afro-European Frontier and Africa onMy Mind: Gender, Counter Discourse and African American Nationalism.

Series Editor's Preface

ix

Author's Preface

xiii

Glossary

xv

Maps

xvii

Chronology

xxiii

Series Editors' Introduction Conceptualizing the History of Women in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East and North Africa

xxvii

Cheryl Johnson-Odim

Margaret Strobel

Introduction

1

(4)

Iris Berger

E. Frances White

Part I Women in East and Southern Africa

5

(58)

Iris Berger

Part II Women in West and West-Central Africa

63

(68)

E. Frances White

Sources

131

(30)

Contributors

161

(2)

Index

163

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Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

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