Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

by Berger, Iris

• ISBN13: 9780253213099
• ISBN10: 0253213096
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Ingram Publisher Services, Inc.

Summary

"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.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

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