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Women and the Remaking of Politics in Southern Africa: Negotiating Autonomy, Incorporation and Representation

Book by Gisela Geisler; Nordic African Institute, 2004

Subjects:

Africa, Southern--Politics And Government--20th Century, Africa, Southern--Social Policy, Political Participation--Africa, Southern, Women In Politics--Africa, Southern, Women's Rights--Africa, Southern, Women--Africa, Southern--Social Conditions--20th Century

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...Gender on the Copperbelt: Women in Northern Rhodesian...Women and Class in Africa. New York 1986. Parpart...Women and the State in Africa in Rothchild, Donald...Paschalina, Too few seats for women, The Weekly Post, 20...Copper Town: Changing Africa. The Human Situation...
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Courtyards, Markets, City Streets: Urban Women in Africa

Book by Kathleen E. Sheldon; Westview Press, 1996

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Urban Women--Africa

Collections: History, Entire Library

...Fatima Babiker Mahmoud". Africa World Review May-October...Rosalind. 1989. "Empowerment of Women in Uganda: Real or Symbolic...Protest and Political Reform in Africa". Comparative Politics 24...In Women and the State in Africa , ed. Jane L. Parpart and...
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Women in Africa: Studies in Social and Economic Change

Book by Nancy J. Hafkin, Edna G. Bay; Stanford University Press, 1976

Subjects:

Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Economic Conditions, Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan--Social Conditions

Collections: History, Entire Library

...1975. "Economy," in Africa South of the Sahara...Europe Underdeveloped Africa . Dar es Salaam, Tanzania...Engels Revisited: Women, the Organization of...Louise Lamphere, eds., Woman, Culture, and Society...Theory of the Status of Women," American Anthropologist...Legal Status in South Africa . London. Steward Julian...
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Western Women in Colonial Africa

Book by Caroline Oliver; Greenwood Press, 1982

Subjects:

Travelers--Africa--Biography, Women Explorers--Biography, Women Missionaries--Africa--Biography, Women--Africa--Biography

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

...the ordinary African women walking majestically...infinitely gay. In West Africa, swirling turbans frequently...sartorial way, African women have completely stolen...There were European women trekking along in their...the population of South Africa are of European origin...
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The Heritage of Islam: Women, Religion, and Politics in West Africa

Book by Lucy Creevey, Barbara Callaway; Lynne Rienner, 1994

Subjects:

Islam--Social Aspects--Africa, West, Muslim Women--Nigeria, Muslim Women--Senegal, Women--Africa, West--Social Conditions, Women--Legal Status, Laws, Etc. (Islamic Law)--Africa, West

Collections: Religious Studies, History, Entire Library

TABLES 1. 1 West Africa: Muslim Population and Basic...1 Education of Girls in West Africa 58 4. 2 Comparative Educational...Obstacles 67 4. 4 The Status of Women 69 4. 5 Access to Education...Women in the Work Force in West Africa 94 5. 2 Incomes of Secluded...

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Journal Articles on: women in africa

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The Institution of Woman-Marriage in Africa: A Cross-Cultural Analysis

Journal article by Beth Greene; Ethnology, Vol. 37, 1998

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Africa--Social aspects, Igbo (African people)--Social aspects, Same-sex marriage--Africa, Women--Africa

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...woman-marriage in Africa: a cross-cultural...by Beth Greene Woman-marriage, the...marriage between two women, included the roles...political power to women, but also the relationship...construction of gender. Woman-marriage, fictive...gender roles, Africa) The institution...Detachability of Women: Gender and Kinship...1937. A Note on "Woman Marriage" in Dahomey. Africa X:335-41...
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The Emperor Is Still Naked: Why the Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa Leaves Women Exposed to More Discrimination

Journal article by Kristin Davis; Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, Vol. 42, 2009

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Affirmative action--Laws, regulations and rules, Gender equality--Laws, regulations and rules, Human rights--Laws, regulations and rules, Protocol to the African Charter on Human and People's Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, 2003, Sex discrimination against women--Laws, regulations and rules, United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women

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...Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa Leaves Women Exposed...physical well-being of woman becomes an object of...Protocol by Uganda, South Africa, and Zambia). (200...Protocol on the Rights of Women in Africa: The SOAWR Campaign...
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Women Writing Africa. Vol. 1: The Southern Region

Journal article by Kay Schaffer; Biography, Vol. 27, 2004

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Books--Book reviews, Women Writing Africa. Vol. 1: The Southern Region (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...and Guerrilla Girls: Women in the Zimbabwean Liberation...the fluid category "woman." In important ways...words of the editors, "Women Writing Africa ... became a project...cultural category of "woman," while also positing...social relations as women "write" Africa and Africa writes...
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Esi Sutherland-Addy and Aminata Diaw, Eds. Women Writing Africa. Vol. 2: West Africa and the Sahel

Journal article by Lisa Mcnee; Biography, Vol. 29, 2006

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Books--Book reviews, Women Writing Africa: vol. 2, West Africa and the Sahel (Book)--Book reviews

Collections: Literature, Entire Library

...that have bedeviled Africa and African women, offering in contrast...of colonial images of Africa as a seductive woman. In contrast to West...written by a St. Thomas woman named Madlena Van Poppos...slaves who resettled in Africa. (Significant numbers...space to the voices of women struggling for their...
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Integrating Literature to Teach about Women of West Africa

Journal article by Julie Doughty; Social Education, Vol. 67, 2003

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Africans--Study and teaching, West Africa, Women--Portrayals, depictions, etc.

Collections: Education, Literature, Entire Library

...Integrating literature to teach about women of West Africa by Julie Doughty Despite the availability...African women. (1) If women of Africa are studied at all, they are often...Yvonne Vera states, "Women of Africa have not been swallowed by history...

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Magazine Articles on: women in africa

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The Women of South Africa

Magazine article by Lynn Norment; Ebony, Vol. 49, August 1994

Subjects:

Women's rights--South Africa, Women--South Africa

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...few rights. In many areas, women could not own property, act...points out that South African women were taxed more than men; and that a Black woman in need of an official document...says, single professional women who got pregnant lost their...violence is increasing in South Africa. According to Albertina Sisulu...
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African Women Respond: Summary Report on G8 and Nepad Plans and the Impact on Women in Africa

Magazine article; Women & Environments International Magazine, Spring 2003

Subjects:

Africa, Economic development, New Partnership for Africa's Development, Political activities, Women

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African Women Respond: Summary Report on...and the Impact on Women in Africa AT THE G8 SUMMIT IN CANADA...overseas development aid to Africa will increase by $ 12 billion...Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Sudan and representatives...
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African Women Respond: Summary Report on G8 and Nepad Plans and the Impact on Women in Africa

Magazine article; Women & Environments International Magazine, Spring 2003

Subjects:

Africa, Funding, New Partnership for Africas Development, Orientations, Summit conferences, Sustainable development, Women

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African Women Respond: Summary Report on...and the Impact on Women in Africa AT THE G8 SUMMIT IN CANADA...overseas development aid to Africa will increase by $ 12 billion...Rwanda, Sierra Leone, South Africa, and Sudan and representatives...
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Good News for All Women of Africa: There Will Be 50% Women and 50% Men in the AU Commission. Historic, Reports Tom Mbakwe

Magazine article by Tom Mbakwe; New African, September 2002

Subjects:

Africa--Political aspects, African Union--Social policy, Equality--Political aspects, International agencies--Social policy, International organizations--Social policy, Women in politics--Africa

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Good News for All Women of Africa: There Will Be 50% Women...Things are really happening in Africa! Days after launching the...Commission is going to get - 50% women, 50% men. The groundbreaking...from each region shall be a woman". The 10 commissioners will...two candidates, including a woman for each portfolio". Now...eligible Africans, both men and women, to rise up to the challenge...
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Economic and Social Council Considers Issues Relating to Human Rights, Women, Drugs, Homeless, Southern Africa

Magazine article; UN Chronicle, Vol. 23, August 1986

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Civil rights--International aspects, Drug abuse--Prevention, Homelessness--Prevention, International organization--Social policy, Southern Africa--Social aspects, United Nations. Economic and Social Council--Social policy, Women--Social aspects

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...Human Rights, Women, Drugs, Homeless, Southern Africa. Action by the...demanded that South Africa stop recruiting...terrorism against women and children in...imprisonment of women and children was...against South Africa was approved in...

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Newspaper Articles on: women in africa

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From the Strawberry Patch to Rural Africa; Local Farmer to Fight Poverty, Empower Rural Women

Newspaper article; The NewsMail (Bundaberg, Australia), July 1, 2011

Subjects:

Farmers, Poverty--Australia, Poverty--Tanzania, Poverty--Uganda, Women

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

...Strawberry Patch to Rural Africa; Local Farmer to Fight Poverty, Empower Rural Women. Byline: Nicole Everett...agriculture and the status of women farmers in her country. Mrs...poverty and to empower rural women after winning an ActionAid...
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Gers Ace's Girlfriend Helps the Raped and Tortured Women of Africa; EXCLUSIVE SHE FLED HER WAR-TORN HOME NOW TATIANA WANTS TO GIVE SOMETHING BACK

Newspaper article; Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland), June 16, 2008

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

...Helps the Raped and Tortured Women of Africa; EXCLUSIVE SHE FLED HER WAR...women desolated by civil war in Africa, it was a decision that came...Tatiana said: "It is the women who are at the centre of a...being. When you educate a woman, you educate a people. It...
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Birth of Idea That Aves Lives; Rugby Star Jamie Roberts Will Be among Those Raising Money Next Month to Help a Charity Set Up by a Remarkable Cardiff Woman Who Is Helping Save the Lives of Mothers and Their Babies in Africa. CATHERINE JONES Heard about What Drove Her to Get Involved with the Lives of Women Thousands of Miles Away

Newspaper article; South Wales Echo (Cardiff, Wales), May 18, 2010

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

...Remarkable Cardiff Woman Who Is Helping Save...Their Babies in Africa. CATHERINE JONES...with the Lives of Women Thousands of Miles...heavily pregnant woman languishing semiconscious...up the Mothers of Africa charity to allow...there, I found a woman on the wards who...are like that in Africa, life is over...in childbirth for women in Africa is one...
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Coach Aiming for African Goal; HER Passion for Netball Has Inspired Students across Northumbria University, and Now Anita Navin Is off to Africa to Empower Women with the Sport. BURHANA ISLAM Finds out More

Newspaper article; Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England), April 30, 2011

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Islam--England, Netball, Northumbria University, Universities and colleges--England

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

...and Now Anita Navin Is off to Africa to Empower Women with the Sport. BURHANA ISLAM...hopes will empower women all over Africa. "I started playing when I was...Netball is quite a strong sport in Africa - its exclusively for women and...
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Renee and I Are Shouting Loudly for the Rights of Women in War-Torn Africa; the Harrowing Stories of Rape and Violence Suffered by Women in Developing Countries Have Inspired the Great Initiative, with A-List Assistance

Newspaper article; The Evening Standard (London, England), May 18, 2011

Subjects:

Developing countries, Rape, Violence, Women's rights

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

...Women in War-Torn Africa; the Harrowing Stories...Violence Suffered by Women in Developing Countries...a beautiful Darufi woman holding her newborn...is clear: invest in women and you can change the...continents. EDUCATE a woman and you educate a country...Johnson Sirleaf more women are attending school...fastest growth rates in Africa. On our second day...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: women in africa

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Benin , Country, Africa

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

BENIN , country, Africa benen , officially Republic...sq mi (112,622 sq km), W Africa, bordering on Togo in the west...began the practice of using women as soldiers, conquered most...was made part of French West Africa . Under the French a port was...
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Woman Suffrage

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Belgium granted suffrage to women in 1946. In Switzerland, however, women were denied the vote in federal...Latin American countries, woman suffrage was granted in Brazil...1946). In the Philippines women have voted since 1937, in...exception of Saudi Arabia. In Africa, women were often enfranchised...
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Maathai, Wangari Muta

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...she was the first woman in E Africa to earn a doctorate...National Council of Women of Kenya, she initiated...encourages ordinary Kenyan women to plant trees to counter...became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace...Life Campaigning for Africa, Women, and the Environment...
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Mahotella Queens

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...the most popular dance bands in South Africa, they often perform with the support...their albums are available outside South Africa; these include Phezula Eqhudeni (1983), Thokozile (1988), Women of the World (1993), and Sebai Bai...
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Hepatitis

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...Hepatitis E is spread by consuming feces-contaminated food or water. It is common in Mexico, Africa, and Asia and is especially serious in pregnant women. Hepatitis can be incurred as a complication of several other disorders in addition to viral...

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