Notes
Introduction
1.
Endnotes will give abbreviated references (author, title, publisher, date) for
works cited in the bibliography at the end of this volume; the bibliography will not
necessarily include all titles cited. For easier reading, a simplified international
spelling for African names has been adopted.
2.
An expert in psycho-pedagogy of Guinean origin recently interviewed about
circumcision in a French periodical described it as an initiation rite whereby the child
left his mother to "enter the world of men." It occurred to neither the interviewer
nor the interviewee to raise, in this report on "children," the question of girls' initiation. L'Evénément du Jeudi, no. 472, 1993. Also see J.-C. Muller, Les deux fois circoncis et les presque excisées, Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, vol. 33, no. 4, no. 132, 1993, pp. 531-544.
3.
See the introduction to C. Coquery-Vidrovitch, Africa: Endurance and Change
South of the Sahara, Berkeley, University of California Press, 1988, and to Histoires
des villes d'Afrique noire des origines à la colonisation, Paris, Albin Michel, 1993.
4.
Early works on women are rare, for example, Les Abyssiniennes et les femmes
du Soudan oriental d'après les relations de Bruce, Browne, . . ., Turin, Jean Zay, 1876.
5.
See Louis Sonolet, Le parfum de la dame noire: Physiologie humoristique de
l'amour africain, Paris, Libraire F. Juven, ca. 1911.
6.
Clara Cahill Park, Native Women in Africa: Their Hard Lot in the March of
Progress, Boston: Massachusetts Commission for International Justice, 1904.
7.
Health Department Archives, thesis in progress by Bérangère Jeannés, Université de Paris 7-Denis Diderot.
8.
There are a few exceptions. See Mamadou Diawara, "Femmes, servitude et histoire: Les traditions orales des femmes de condition servile dans le royaume de Jaara
du XVe au milieu du XIXe siècle", History in Africa, no. 16, 1989, pp. 71-96.
9.
Karin Barber, "Oriki: History and Criticism", mimeograph, Centre of West
African Studies, University of Birmingham, 1987, p. 5.
10.
M. Palau-Marty, Le roi-dieu du Bénin, Paris, Berger-Levrault, 1964, p. 139.
11.
Claude-Hélène Perrot, Les Ani-Ndenye et le pouvoir aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, Paris, Editions de la Sorbonne, 1982.
12.
Diawara, op. cit.
13.
Kirk Hoppe, "Whose Life Is It, Anyway? Issues of Representation in Life
Narrative Texts of African Women", International Journal of African Historical
Studies, vol. 26, no. 3, 1993, pp. 623-626.
14.
See the bibliography.
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Publication information:
Book title: African Women:A Modern History.
Contributors: Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch - Author, Beth Gillian Raps - Translator.
Publisher: Westview Press.
Place of publication: Boulder, CO.
Publication year: 1997.
Page number: 235.
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