General

Apter, Andrew. "Discourse and its disclosures: Yoruba women and the sanctity of abuse." Africa (International African Institute) 68, no.1 (1998): 68-97 STACKS

Biswas, Aparajita. "Women in South African society: some issues." African Currents  14, no.25 (1998): 1-15.  Q. 967 AF832  STACKS

Edvardy, M. "Theorizing past and present women's organizations in Kenya." World Development 26, no.9 (1998): 1749-1761. 338.905 Wo STACKS, COMMERCE

Gladwin, Christina. "Women and structural adjustment in a global economy." Women and International Development Annual 3,  no.3 (1993): 87-112. 305.4W8432  WOMEN'S STUDIES

Hodgson, Dorothy L. & Sheryl Mccurdy. "Wayward wives, misfit mothers, and disobedient daughters: wicked women and the reconfiguration of gender in Africa." Canadian Journal of African Studies 30, no. 1 (1996): 1-9. 960.05CAN STACKS

Mazrui, Ali. " The Black woman and the problem of gender:  an African perspective." Research  in African Literatures 24, no.1 (1993): 87-104. 896.05RE  MODERN LANGUAGES

Meiei, Barbara. "'Doglientiri': an institutionalised relationship between women among the Bulsa of northern Ghana." Africa  (International African Institute) 69, no.1 (1999): 87-107. 059.6AF STACKS

Monga, Yvette D. "Dollars and lipstick: the United States through the eyes of African women." Africa (International African Institute)  70, no.2 (2000): 192-208. 059.6AF STACKS

Ogundipe-Leslie, Molara. "Beyond hearsay and academic journalism: the black woman and Ali Mazrui." Research in African  Literatures 24, no.1 (1993): 105-112.   896.05RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

Simsa'a, Leyla El Awad. "Structural adjustment policies and women in the rural areas in Africa: a review of some major issues." Africa Development:, 23 no. 3/4 (1998): 135-147.  309.1605 AFD  STACKS
 

AIDS

Abdool Karim, Quarraisha. "Women and AIDS: the imperative for a gendered prognosis and prevention policy." Agenda  no. 39 (1998): 15-25.  305.4096805 AG STACKS

Manji, Ambreena S. "The AIDS epidemic and women's land rights in Tanzania." Recht in Afrika  no. 1, (1999): 31-49. K18. E265 LAW
 

Apartheid and Transformation

Hyslop, Jonathan. "White working-class women and the invention of Apartheid: 'purified' Afrikaner nationalist agitation for legislation against mixed marriages, 1934-39. Journal of African History  36, no.1 (1995): 57-82. 960.05JO EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

Seidman, Gay W. "South Africa: constructing a nation, restructuring gender." The Women and International Development Annual  4, no. 7 (1995): 203-231.   305.4W8432   WOMEN'S STUDIES
 

Colonialism

Alleman, Jean. "Rounding up spinsters: gender chaos and unmarried women in colonial Asante." Journal of African  History  37, no. 2 (1996): 195-214.  960.05JO   EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

Bradford, Helen. "Women, gender and colonialism: rethinking the history of the British Cape Colony and its frontier zones, c.1806-70 Journal of African History  37, no. 3 (1996): 351-370. 960.05JO EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

Byfield, Judith. "Women, marriage. divorce and the emergence of the colonial state in Aboekuta (Nigeria) 1892-1904. Canadian  Journal of African Studies  30, no. 1 (1996): 32-51. 960. 05CAN   STACKS
 

Development

Ismail, Salma. "When women take control: building houses, people and communities." Agenda 38 (1998):  51-62. 305.4096805 AG. STACKS

Julia, Maria. "One NGOs contribution to women's economic empowerment and social development in Zimbabwe."Journal of Social Development in Africa  14, no.1 (1999): 19-30. 303.4405 JO. STACKS

Shisanya, Chris A. "Gender, exploitation, development and agricultural transformation in sub-Saharan Africa." Journal of Eastern African  Research and Development  25 (1995): 1-15.   305JOE    STACKS
 

Education

Fallon, Kathleen. "Education and perceptions of social status and power among women in Larteh, Ghana." Africa Today  46, n. 2  (1999):  67-91.   305AF.
AFRICANA, STACKS
 

Energy Crisis

Aina, O. I. and A. I. Odebiyi. "Domestic energy crisis in Nigeria: impact on women and family welfare."African Economic History. no.26 (1998):
1-14.    330.9605 AFEH  STACKS
 

Environment

Ngwa, N.E. "The role of women in environmental management: an overview of the rural Cameroonian situation." Geojournal  35, no. 4 (1995): 515-520. 550.5GEOJ   MAP AND GEOGRAPHY
 

Family Planning

Hartman, B. "The Cairo 'consensus:' women's empowerment or business as usual?" Geojournal  35, no. 2 (1995): 205-206.   550.5GEOJ   MAP AND GEOGRAPHY

"Women's rights to choose: SACP statement to the parliamentary select committee on abortion." The African Communist 139 (1995): 50-53.   335.4305AF   STACKS
 

Genital mutilation

Muller, Jean Claude. "Les deux fois circoncis et les presque excisees: le cas des Diis de l'Adamaoua. (Nord Cameroun)." Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines  132 (1993): 531-544.   960.05CA   STACKS

Thomas, Lynn M. "Imperial concerns and 'women's affairs': State efforts to regulate clitoridectomy and eradicate abortion in Meru." The Journal of African History 39, no.1 (1998): 121-145.   960.05 JO STACKS
 

Historiographical studies

Denzer, Laray. "Yoruba women: A historiographical study." The International Journal of African  Historical Studies 27, no. 1 (1994): 1-39.   960.05AFH   STACKS

Gerger, Susan. "Tanganyikan nationalism as 'women's work:' life histories, collective biography and changing historiography." Journal of African History  37, no. 1 (1996): 465-478.   960.05JO   STACKS

Hetherington, Penelope. "Women in South Africa: the historiography in English." The  International Journal of African  Historical Studies 26, no. 2  (1993): 241-269.   960. 05AFH   STACKS
 

Labor

Horn, Pat. "The informal sector: West African women organize." South African Labour Bulletin 21, no.1 (1997): 90-93.   331.096805SO   STACKS

Khosa, Meshack. "Sisters on slippery wheels: women taxi drivers in South Africa." Transformation  33 (1997): 18-33.   305.800968    STACKS

Kisting, Sophia. "Health and safety: challenges and opportunities for women workers." South African Labour Bulletin  21, no. 1 (1997): 20-24.
331. 096805S0   STACKS

Kriger, Colleen. "Textile production and gender in the Sokoto Caliphate." Journal of African History  34, no. 3 (1993): 361-401.   960. 05JO   EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

Miles, M. "For the sake of the children: coping strategies of women in Swaziland's domestic service sector." Geojournal  39, no. 1 (1996): 81-88.  550.5GEOJ   MAP AND GEOGRAPHY

Naidoo, Goonasagree. "Women's empowerment in the South African corporate world." Southern African Political and Economic Monthly 10, no. 5  (1997): 42-46.   320.968S88   STACKS

Naidoo, Lali. "A place in the sun: women farmworkers organize." South African Labour Bulletin  21, no. 2 (1997): 57-61.   331.096805SO   STACKS

Obi, Regina."Women's participation at executive level in trade unions in Nigeria."
Africa Development  23, no.3/4 (1998): 163-182. 309.1605 AFD. STACKS

Samson, Melanie. "The Employment standards bill undermining gender rights." South African Labour Bulletin  21, no. 1 (1997): 16-19.   331.096805SO STACKS

______ "Globalisation: women pay the price." South African Labour Bulletin  21, no. 1 (1997): 8-13.   331.096805SO   STACKS
 

Land Rights

Andrew, Nancy. "More than a football field!: access to land among South African rural women."
L'Afrique politique (1998):  87-106. 320.967AF84 STACKS

Cross, Catherine. "Women and land in the rural crisis." Agenda  42 (1999): 12-27. 305.4096805 AG  STACKS

Gengenbach, Heidi. "I'll bury you in the border!' : women's land struggles in post-war Facazisse." Journal of Southern African Studies  24, no.1 (1998): 7-36. 916.805 JO   STACKS

Goebel, Allison"Here is our land, wo of us": women, men and land in a Zimbabwean
resettlement area." Journal of Contemporary African Studies 17, no.1 (1999): 75-96. 960.05 JOUC STACKS
 

Law

Griffiths, Anne. "Legal pluralism in Botswana : women's access to law." Journal of Legal Pluralism and Unofficial Law   no. 42 (1998): 123-138. K10.O87394X  LAW
 

Literature

Garritano, Carmela J. "At an intersection of humanism and postmodernism: A feminist reading of Ellen Kuzwayo's Call me Woman." Research in African Literatures 28, no. 2 (1997): 57-65.   896.05RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

Hartman, Michelle. "Re-reading women in/to Naguib Mahfouz's Al-liss wa''l Kilab (The Thief and the dogs). Research in African Literatures 28, no. 3 (1997): 5-16.   896.05RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

Hitchcott, Nicki. "Herstory: the feminist reader and the African autobiographical voice." Research in African  Literatures  28 no. 2 (1997): 16-32.   896.05RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

Miller, Mary Kay. "My mothers/my selves: (Re)reading a tradition of West African women's autobiography." Research in African  Literatures 28, no. 2 (1997): 5-15.   896.05RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

Nnaemeka, Obioma. "Feminism, rebellious women and cultural boundaries: rereading Flora Nwapa and her compatriots." Research in African  Literatures  26, no. 2 (1995): 80-110.   896.05RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

______ "From orality to writing:  African women writers and the (Re)inscription of womanhood." Research in  African Literatures  25, no.4 (1994): 137-158.   896.05RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

Stora, Benjamin. "Women's writing between two Algerian wars." Research in African Literatures 30, no.3 (1999): 78-94. 896.05RE MODERN LANGUAGES

Volet, Jean-Marie. "Tradition and modernity are here to stay : an analysis of francophone African women's writings published in 1997-98." Research in African Literatures 30, no.2  (1999):182-193. 896.05RE MODERN LANGUAGES
 

Marriage

Boyd, Raymond. "Saved by a song: patriarchy and women's experience in Chamba tellings of 'The girl who wanted an unblemished husband."' Journal of African Cultural Studies 11, no. 1 (1998): 5-25.
496 Af8331 MODERN LANGUAGES

Hodgson, Dorothy L. "'My daughter . . . belongs to the government now:' marriage, Maasai and the Tanzanian state." Canadian Journal of African Studies 30, no. 1 (1996): 106-123.   960. 05CAN   STACKS

Lovett, Margaret. " She thinks she is like a man: marriage and (de)constructing gender identity in colonial Buha, Tanzania, 1943-60." Canadian  Journal of  African Studies  30, no. 1 (1996):52-68.   960.05CAN   STACKS

MacGaffey, Wyatt. "Husbands and wives." Transition  71 (1996): 122-130.
052 TRANS N.S.   STACKS

Meekers, Dominique. " The noble custom of Roora: the marriage practices of the Shona of Zimbabwe." Ethnology: an International  Journal of Cultural and Social Anthropology 32, no. 1 (1993): 35-54.   572.05ETH   EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

Meekers, Dominique and Nadia F. "Women's perceptions of polygyny among the Karugu of Tanzania." Ehnology  34,
no. 4 (1995): 315-330. 572.05ETH   EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

Samuel, Sharita. "Women married in customary law:  no longer permanent minors." Agenda  40, (1999): 23-31.  305.4096805 AG  STACKS

Schroeder, Richard A. "Gone to their second husbands: marital metaphors and conjugal contracts in the Gambia's female garden sector." Canadian  Journal of African Studies  30, no. 1 (1996): 69-87.   960.05CAN   STACKS
 

Migration

Miles, M. "Missing women: reflections on the experiences of Swazi migrant women on the Rand, 1920-1970." Geojournal  30, no. 1 (1994): 85-92.   550.5GEOJ   MAP AND GEOGRAPHY

O'Laughlin. "Missing men? : the debate over rural poverty and women-headed households in southern Africa." The Journal of Peasant Studies  25, no.2 (1997/98): 1-48. 301.4405 JO  STACKS, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
 

Motherhood

Blier, Suzanne P. "The path of the leopard: motherhood and majesty in early Dahome."Journal  of  African History 36, no. 3 (1995): 391-418.   960.05JO   STACKS

Rain, D. "The women of Kano: internalized stress and the conditions of reproduction, Northern Nigeria." Geojournal  43, no.2 (1997): 175-187.  550.5 GEOJ   MAP AND GEOGRAPHY
 

Orality

Anyidoho, Akosua. "Tradition and innovation in Nnwonkoro, an Akan female verbal tradition." Research in African Literatures 25, no.3 (1994): 141-159.   896.05RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

Ayodo, Awuor. "Definitions of the self in Luo women's orature." Research in African Literatures 25, no. 3 (1994): 121-130.   896.05 RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

Cham, Mbye. "African women and cinema: A conversation with Anne Mungai" Research in African Literatures 25, no. 3 (1994): 93-104. 896.05 RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

Hale, Thomas A. "Griottes: female voices from West Africa." Research in African Literatures 25, no. 3 (1994): 71-91.   896.05 RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

Mugambi, Helen N. "Intersections: gender, orality, text, and female space in contemporary Kiganda radio songs." Research in African Literatures 25, no. 3 (1994): 47-70.   896.05 RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

Ogede, Ode S. "Counters to male domination: images of pain in Igede women's  songs." Research in African Literatures 25, no. 3 (1994): 105-120.   896.05 RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

Okafar, Chinyere G. "From the heart of masculinity: Ogbodo-Uke's women's masking." Research in African Literatures 25, no. 3 (1994): 7-17.   896.05 RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

Okereke, Grace E. "The birth song as a medium for communicating Woman's Maternal destiny in the traditional community." Research in African Literatures 25, no. 3 (1994): 19-32.   896.05 RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

Oyegoke, Lekan. "Sade's testimony: A new genre of autobiography in African folklore." Research in African Literatures  25, no. 3 (1994): 131-140.
896.05 RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

Presbey, Gail. "Should women love 'wisdom'? : evaluating the Ethiopian wisdom tradition. Research in African Literatures  30, no.2 (1999): 165-181. 896.05 RE MODERN LANGUAGES

Sekoni, Ropo. "Yoruba market dynamics and the aesthetics of negotiation in female precolonial narrative tradition." Research in African Literatures 25, no. 3 (1994): 33-45.   896. 05 RE   MODERN LANGUAGES

Voisset, Georges M. "The Tebra  of moorish women from Mauretania: the limits (or essence) of the poetic act." Research in African Literatures 24, no. 2 (1993): 79-88.   896. 05 RE   MODERN LANGUAGES
 

Peacemaking

Campbell, Horace. "The search for peace in Angola : the crucial role of women." Africa Quarterly  39,
no. 1 (1999):  1-40. 960.05 AFRQ  STACKS
 

Politics

Amrane-Minne, Danielle Djamila. "Women and politics in Algeria from the war of independence to our day."  Research in African Literatures 30, no.3 (1999): 62-77   896.05RE  MODERN LANGUAGES
Aning, Emmanuel Kwesi. "Women and civil conflict: Liberia and Sierra Leone." African Journal of International Affairs." 1, no.2 (1998): 45-58. 327.6005 AF  STACKS

Badejo, Diedre. "African feminism: mythical and social power of women of African descent." Research in African Literatures  29, no.2 (1998):  94-111. 896.05RE  MODERN LANGUAGES

Ballington, Julie. "Women's parliamentary representation: the effect of list PR." Politikon  25, no.2 (1998):  77-93. 320.705 PO STACKS

Connell, Dan. "Strategies for change: women and politics in Eritrea and South Africa." Review of African Political Economy 25, no.76 (1998): 189-206. 330.9605 RE STACKS

Day, Linda R. "The evolution of female chiefship during the late nineteenth- century wars of the Mende." International Journal of African Historical  Studies  27, no. 3 (1994): 481-503.   960.05AFH STACKS

Goetz, Anne Marie. "Women in politics & gender equity in policy: South Africa & Uganda." Review of African Political Economy  25, no.76 (1998):  241-262. 960.05AFH STACKS

Hanretta, Sean. "Women, marginality and the Zulu State: women's institutions and power in the early nineteenth century." The Journal of African History.  39, no.3 (1998): 389-415. 960.05 JO STACKS

Huston, Alain. "The development of women's authority in the Kano Tijaniyya, 1894-1963." Africa Today  46, no.3/4 (1999): 43-64. 305 AF STACKS

Lindeke, William A. & Winnie Wanzala. "Regional elections in Namibia: deepening democracy and gender inclusion." Africa Today  41, no. 3 (1993): 5-14.   305AF   STACKS

MacGregor, Karen. "The politics of empowerment: women in parliament." Indicator South Africa: 18, no. 3 (1999): 26 33. Q. 968.06 IN3  AFRICANA, STACKS

McCurdy, Sheryl. "The 1932 'war' between rival Ujiji (Tanganyika) Associations: understanding women's motivations for inciting political unrest." Canadian Journal of African Studies  30, no. 1 (1996): 10-31. 960.05CAN   STACKS

McFadden, Patricia. "Challenges and prospects for the African Women's Movement in the 21st century." Southern African Political and Economic Monthly  10, no. 10 (1997): 25-28. 320.096805S88   STACKS

Modic, Kate. "Negotiating Power: A study of the Ben Ka Di women's association in Bamako, Mali." Africa Today  41, no. 2 (1994): 25-38.   305AF   STACKS

Scarnecchia, Timothy. "Poor women and nationalist politics: alliances and fissures in the formation of a nationalist political movement in Salisbury, Rhodesia, 1950-6." Journal of African History  37, no. 2 (1996): 283-310.   960.05JO   EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

Tripp, Aili Mari. "Expanding 'civil society': women and political space in contemporary Uganda." Commonwealth & Comparative Politics  36, no.2 (1998): 84-107. 328.4205 JOC1  STACKS

Vincent, Louise. "A cake of soap: the 'volksmoeder' ideology and Afrikaner women's campaign." The International Journal of African Historical Studies 32, no.1 (1999): 1-17. 960.05 AFH STACKS
 

Religion

Bay, Edna G. "Belief, legitimacy and the Kpojito: an institutional history of the Queen Mother in precolonial Dahomey." The Journal of African History  36, no. 1 (1995): 1-28. 960.05JO   EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

Frank, Barbara. " Permitted and prohibited wealth: commodity possessing spirits, economics, morals, and the goddess Mami Wata in West Africa." Ethnology  34, no. 4 (1995): 361-401.   572. 05ETH   EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
 

Rural Life

Kapteijns, Lidwien. "Gender relations and the transformation of the northern Somali pastoral tradition." The International Journal of African Historical Studies 28, no. 2 (1995): 1-24. 960.05AFH   STACKS
 

Slavery

Scully, Pamela. "Narratives of infanticide in the aftermath of slave emancipation in the nineteenth century Cape Colony, South Africa." Canadian Journal of African Studies  30, no. 1 (1996): 88-105  960. 05CAN   STACKS
 

Technology

Mtshali, Sazile. "Honing technologies that build women's economic base." Agenda: 38 (1998): 23-35. 305.4096805 AG   STACKS
 

Trade

De Herdt, Tom & Stefaan Marysse. "The reinvention of the market from below: the end of the women's money changing monopoly in Kinshasa." Review of African Political Economy  26, no. 80 (1999): 239-253. 330.9605 RE  STACKS

Skinner, Catherine. "Women street traders: local government in transition." Indicator South Africa 16, no. 3 (1999): 46-52. Q.968.06 IN3. AFRICANA, STACKS

_____ Skinner, Caroline. "Women traders in Durban: life on the streets."  Indicator South Africa  15, no.4 (1998): 17-24. Q. 968.06 IN3 AFRICANA, STACKS

VerEecke, Catherine. "Muslim women traders of Northern Nigeria: perspectives from the city of Yola." Ethnology  32, no.  3 (1993): 217-236.   572.05ETH    EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE
 

Urbanization

Levin, Carol E. "Working women in an urban setting: traders, vendors and food security in Accra."  World Development  27, no.11 (1999): 1977-1991. 338.905 WO COMMERCE, STACKS

Miles, Miranda. "Urbanisation in Swaziland: a post-independence assessment of its implications on the changing role of women." Urban Forum  11, no.1 (2000): 103-118. 301.3605 URF STACKS

Osirim, Mary J. "Vehicles for change and empowerment : urban women's organizations in Nigeria and Zimbabwe." Scandinavian Journal of Development Alternatives and Area Studies"  17, no.2/3 (1998): 145-164.  909.091724 Sc621b  STACKS, EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCE

Selected Journals on Women in Africa
 
Numerous bibliographies list special issues of various journals. See also "Special Periodical Issues About African Women, 1972-1991" by Diane M. Duesterhoeft. In A Current Bibliography on African Affairs 24, no.1 (1992-93): 315-340.
016.9605 C936N.S. AFRICANA

Echo: Bilingual Quarterly Newsletter of the Association of African Women for Research and Development = Bulletin trimestriel bilingue de l'association des femmes africaines pour la recherche et le développement. Dakar, Senegal: The Association, 1986-. 307.14088042 EC44
WOMEN'S STUDIES

Resources for Feminist Research: RFR = Documentation sur la recherche féministe: DRF. Toronto: s.n., 1979-. Quarterly. Also available on microfiche.
Articles, book reviews, bibliography, conference reports, research in progress. International in scope. 396.05 CA1 WOMEN'S STUDIES, STACKS

WIN News. Lexington, MA: Women's International Network, 1975-. Quarterly. 396.05 WOI STACKS

Women in Action. Rome: Isis International, 1984-. Quarterly. 305.405 ISISsup WOMEN'S STUDIES

Women Today. London: Dept. of Education in Tropical Areas, University of London, 1955-1965. 396.05 WOT STACKS

Women 2000. New York: United Nations. Division for the Advancement of Women, 1986-. Irregular. Also available on micro-fiche. Q. 305.405 WOMT STACKS

Women's Feature Service Bulletin. New York and Rome: WFS, 1991-. 6/yr. 305.4091724 W84251 STACKS, WOMEN'S STUDIES
 
Women's Studies Quarterly. Old Westbury, NY: The Feminist Press, 1981-.  305.405 WO STACKS,WOMEN'S STUDIES

WORDOC Newsletter. [Ibadan, Nigeria]: Women's Research and Documentation Centre, Institute of African Studies, University of Ibadan, 1987-. Semiannual.  305.40966905 WO STACKS

Maimouna Barro
January 2001