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African Women: A Modern History

Book by Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch, Beth Gillian Raps; Westview Press, 1997

Subjects:

Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History--19th Century, Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History--20th Century

Collections: History, Entire Library

"A cornucopia of historical & contemporary information about the life of women south of the Sahara.... An essential work." Choice "[A] pathbreaking effort.... Fills a conspicuous gap in African studies." Foreign Affairs
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Structural Adjustment and African Women Farmers

Book by Christina H. Gladwin; University of Florida Press, 1991

Subjects:

Agricultural Subsidies--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses, Agriculture And State--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses, Women Agricultural Laborers--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses, Women Farmers--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Congresses

Collections: Entire Library

...impact on African women farmers, has been...proposed in some African countries. The traditional rationale for...describes how an African university is...agents and rural women how to cope with...changes away from traditional skills of cooking...
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Patriarchy and Class: African Women in the Home and the Workforce

Book by Sharon B. Stichter, Jane L. Parpart; Westview Press, 1988

Subjects:

Africa, Sub-Saharan--Social Conditions--1960-, Patriarchy--Africa, Sub-Saharan, Sex Role--Africa, Sub-Saharan, Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...addition, individual African men, freed from traditional constraints and...financial support. Women benefited from...historically imposed on African societies and...confirm or pervert traditional gender relations...current situation of women in Africa. But...
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Female Circumcision and the Politics of Knowledge: African Women in Imperialist Discourses

Book by Obioma Nnaemeka; Praeger, 2005

Subjects:

Africa--Colonial Influence, Body, Human--Social Aspects--Africa, Female Circumcision--Africa

Collections: Entire Library

...specific reasons and particular purposes. Africans do. TOSTAN, a Senegal-based nongovernmental...cameras to these communities looking for women with buckets of hot water to photograph...movements, which in their bid to return to traditional values deny women their free agency...
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African Philosophy, Culture, and Traditional Medicine

Book by M. Akin Makinde; Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1988

Subjects:

Africa, Sub-Saharan--Civilization, Philosophy, African, Traditional Medicine--Africa, Sub-Saharan

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...diagnosis in African traditional healing. While an African may find the Ifa...young men and women serve long periods...Waismann does. African traditional thought also holds...if this kind of African traditional thought is unphilosophical...

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African Women: A Modern History

Journal article by Claire Robertson; The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999

Subjects:

African Women: A Modern History (Book)--Reviews, Books--Reviews

Collections: History, Entire Library

...of precolonial African women. Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch...that contrasts traditional and modern, which...Western-educated, elite women. Africas ills are...for the future. A traditional versus modern dichotomy...not Westernize Africans. Even anglophobia...
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Calling the Church to Account: African Women and Liberation

Journal article by Mercy Oduyoye; The Ecumenical Review, Vol. 47, 1995

Subjects:

Sex discrimination against women--Religious aspects, Women in Christianity--Attitudes, Women's rights--Religious aspects

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...even in traditional African religions...observe African women whose female...contributions of women have been...scholar of African Traditional Religions...information about African Traditional Religion...of Church Women in the Nigerian...
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South Africa's 1996 Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act: Expanding Choice and International Human Rights to Black South African Women

Journal article by Audrey E. Haroz; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 30, 1997

Subjects:

Abortion--Laws, regulations, etc., South Africa. Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act 1996, South Africa--Social policy

Collections: Entire Library

...describes the traditional position of black South African women(13) in a...black South African women. A. The Traditional Status of...prevents women from making...Three traditional customary...black South African females...
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Memorial Narratives of African Women in Antebellum New England

Journal article by Lois Brown; Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers, Vol. 20, 2003

Subjects:

American literature, Bradford, Gamaliel, Haynes, Lemuel, Stewart, Maria W.

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...Narratives of African Women in Antebellum...record the lives of Africans in America were...conform to the traditional template and contexts...narratives about African women in early New England...circumstances of African women enslaved in America...
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We Belong Here, Too: Accommodating African Muslim Feminism in African Feminist Theory Via Zaynab Alkali's the Virtuous Woman and the Cobwebs and Other Stories

Journal article by Shirin Edwin; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 27, 2006

Subjects:

A Virtuous Woman (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, African women writers--Criticism and interpretation, African women writers--Works, Alkali, Zaynab--Criticism and interpretation, Alkali, Zaynab--Works, Feminism--Analysis, The Cobwebs and Other Stories (Short fiction collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors, African--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors, African--Works

Collections: Entire Library

...place of traditional religions...representation of African Muslim women serves as...burdens on African womens backs...mountains" women carry--oppression from traditional structures...polygamy within traditional African societies...Status of Women in Indigenous...

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African Women in Business: Celine Edi-Musembe

Magazine article; African Business, October 1997

Subjects:

Edi-musembe, Celine--Behavior, Women executives--Behavior

Collections: Entire Library

...South Africa. She readily admits that professional African women face a different set of barriers to their Western counterparts. With the support of the traditional African extended family, it is often easier to delegate...
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Liberia: A New Beginning; after 158 Years of "Imperial" Male Rule, Liberia Has Just Seen the Inauguration of Its First Female President. Now President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf Must Set the Pace for Other African Women to Follow. Jarlawah A. Tonpo Reports from Monrovia

Magazine article by Jarlawah A. Tonpo; New African, February 2006

Subjects:

Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen--Elections, Johnson-Sirleaf, Ellen--Political activity, Liberia--Political aspects, Women presidents (Government)--Elections, Women presidents (Government)--Political activity

Collections: Entire Library

...the Pace for Other African Women to Follow. Jarlawah A. Tonpo...And gorgeously dressed in her African attire, the first democratically-elected...official 21-gun salute, three huge traditional drums boomed, their sounds...from the podium in his white African suit, perhaps imagining how...
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Mozambique: Small Portraits of Big Women; Paola Rolletta on the Women of Mozambique Who, like Most African Women, Are the Backbone of Society and Yet Work against the Odds

Magazine article by Paola Rolletta; New African, December 2004

Subjects:

Feminism--Analysis, Politics--Analysis

Collections: Entire Library

...elsewhere), who cross the Swaziland and South African borders and buy eggs, meat, vegetables...7%. In men, it stands at 40.2% and in women, a staggering 78.2%. Among the 15-29...from my stand where I sold tomatoes and traditional beverages. People said: Dont buy from...
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Tanzania a Very African Beauty Contest: An Alternative Beauty Pageant Based on African Values Is Taking Tanzania by Storm and Attracting Both Women and Men in Droves

Magazine article by Herald Tagama; New African, November 2003

Subjects:

Women

Collections: Entire Library

...and Tsh100,000 respectively. But the women have no regrets. They see themselves...thing which, they say, brings out their African feminity and behaviour. Charles Mbowe...had also become a focus of displaying traditional clothes. But the large companies which...
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What Black Women Need to Know about Breast Cancer: Disease in Younger African-American Women Is Likely to Be More Aggressive

Magazine article by Joy Bennett Kinnon; Ebony, Vol. 61, October 2006

Subjects:

African American women--Health aspects, Breast cancer--Care and treatment, Breast cancer--Risk factors

Collections: Entire Library

...researchers have wondered why. Although African-Americans have fewer breast cancers than White women, their mortality is worse. In fact, Black...mammography screenings have all been the traditional explanations to our lower survival rates...

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Stage Trails Black Women West

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 19, 2005

Subjects:

African Americans

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...Most of the settlers were traditional families, but by 1890, a quarter...a million single or widowed women were running their own farms...tobacco-smoking, cowboy-booted women who were as ornery and land-proud...her age. "Flyin West" is a women-driven show that does not flinch...
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ARTS DIARY: Variety and Passion of Women Dancers; Afro-American Company Full of Drama

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), November 28, 2007

Subjects:

African Americans

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...American dance company Urban Bush Women. As the title suggests, this...was a leading light in the African/ American dance movement. The...preachers voice and a variety of traditional music backed movements that...dailypost.co.uk Urban Bush Women - provided a night of strong...
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African Queen of Mean; Platell's People

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 10, 2006

Subjects:

Jolie, Angelina

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...middle of an impoverished African country? What a clever...Africa where so many women die because they lack...the gravest threats to traditional family life. Britains...Beckham (left) to British women as those bunions. As...has dropped the Torys traditional commitments to tax cuts...
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BIG/small; African Show Weighs Impact of Size, Scale

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 11, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...monumentality. By contrast, traditional South African outer-wall home designs...South African Ndebele women to bead the 7-foot-tall...Coca-Cola Co. by six Ndebele women of South Africa in 1996...the National Museum of African Art. 2 Photos, NO CREDI...
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To Be Dads, Boys Must Learn to Be Men: Expert Espouses the Values of African Culture

Newspaper article by Cheryl Wetzstein; The Washington Times, December 3, 1998

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...do a whole lot of playing. I advise my daughters and other women that, unless the male is 28 years old, do not make any kind...what happens with all those desires for love? Well, what did traditional societies do? They kept the male busy working. Adolescence...

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Aidoo, Ama Ata

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...A., 1964). Combining traditional African storytelling with Western...contemporary roles of African women and the negative impact of Western influences on African culture. Her first play...explores a contemporary African marriage. See V. O...
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Emecheta, Buchi

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...England and wrote novels about the struggles of African women moving from traditional to modern roles in societies where men have little...Nigeria and are highly critical of the treatment of African women. These include The Bride Price (1976), the...
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Sembene, Ousmane

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...uses a combination of realistic Western narrative and traditional African storytelling to follow a young African womans mistreatment...again reflect Sembenes profound concern for African women. See F. Pfaff, The Cinema of Ousmane Sembene (1984...
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Quilting

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...ornamental needlework. Traditional African-American quilts...created by the women of Gees Bend, an...Ringgold, who blends African-American tradition...The Quilters: Women and Domestic Art...Contemporary Quilts from Traditional Patterns (1988...
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United States

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Philosophy, History, Education, Literature, Psychology, Entire Library

...young men and many young women. The creation of a great...United States cast off its traditional peacetime isolationism...supported the efforts of African-American citizens to...Courage: A History of Women in the United States...Captivity: A History of African-American Slaves (2003...

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