African Women: Selected
English-Language Monographs
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
AFRICANA GENERAL
Devindex Africa, special issue on women and development,
1989, no. 2. 016.33096UN3D AFX
Duesterfoeft, Diane M., "Special periodical issues about African
women, 1972-1991" in A current bibliography on African affairs,
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Farwer, Christine, The role of women in Africa, 1990. Q.016.3054096Z17RSUP.2
STX
Giorgis, Belkis Wolde, ed., A selected and annotated bibliography
on women and health in Africa, 1986. 016.61304244G438S WST,
AFX
Sherwood, Marika, Women under the sun: African women in politics
and production: a bibliography 1982-5, 1988. 016.3054096SH58W
AFX
WEST AFRICA
Ardayfio-Schandorf, Elizabeth and Kate Kwafo-Akoto, ed., Women
in Ghana: an annotated bibliography, 1990. 016.305409667AR28W
STX, WST
Kisekka, Mere Nakateregga, Women and development in Nigeria:
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EAST AFRICA
Bifani, Patricia, ed., The impact of development on women in
Kenya: annotated bibliography, 1982. Q.016.30714B479I AFX
Mascarenhas, Ophelia, Women in Tanzania: an analytical bibliography,
1983. 016.305409678M373W AFX
SOUTHERN AFRICA
An annotated bibliography of research on Zambian women,
1985. 016.30714AN87W1985 AFX
Antkiewicz, Susan, ed., Women and development in Zambia: an
annotated bibliography, 1983. 016.30714AN87W AFX
Chitambo, A. M., ed., Women in Zambia: a bibliographical guide
and directory, 1991. 016.3054C448W AFX
Hughes, Heather, et al., ed., Women in Southern Africa: a bibliography,
1991. Q.016.30540968W8421991 AFX, WST
Macnamara, Eve, Women in Zimbabwe: an annotated bibliography,
1989. 016.30540968M232W AFX
Muchena, Olivia N., Women and development in Zimbabwe: an annotated
bibliography, 1984. 016.305409689M881W AFX
Nkabinde, Thokozile, ed., Women in Lesotho: an annotated bibliography,
1989. Q.016.30540968N659W AFX, STX
Women in southern Africa: a bibliography, 1985. Q.016.30540968W842
STX
OTHER MONOGRAPHS
AFRICA GENERAL
Bay, Edna G., ed., Women and work in Africa, 1982. 305.4096W8422
AGX, STX, IRX, UGX
Blum, William G., Forms of marriage: monogamy reconsidered,
1989. 306.8422096B628F STX
Chilungu, Simeon Waliaula, ed.,African continuities, 1989.
306.85096AF83 STX
Collected papers of the Symposium on Household Food Security
and the Role of Women, Harare, Zimbabwe, January 21-24, 1990.
338.1096SY68C STX
Cutrufelli, Maria Rosa, Women of Africa: roots of oppression,
1983. 305.4096C979D:E EDX, STX
Davison, Jean, ed., Agriculture, women and land: the African
experience, 1988. 331.483096AG83 MAG, AGX, AFX
Egwuonwu, Ani Dike, Marriage problems in Africa, 1986. 306.81096EG89M
RBC
Guyer, Jane I., Women and the state in Africa: marriage law,
inheritance, and resettlement, 1987. 346.60134G989W STX
Hansen, Karen Tranberg, African encounters with domesticity,
1992. 305.4206AF832 HIX
Hay, Margaret Jean, Queens, prostitutes and peasants: historical
perspectives on African women, 1971-1986, 1988. 305.4096H322Q
STX
Hay, Margaret Jean and Sharon Stichter, eds., African women
south of the Sahara, 1984. 305.40967AF83 AFX, STX, UGX
Hay, Margaret Jean and Marcia Wright, eds., African women &
the law: historical perspectives, 1982. 346.60134AF83 AFX
Kirwen, Michael C., African widows: an empirical study of the
problems of adapting Western Christian teachings on marriage to
the leviratic custom for the care of widows in four rural African
societies, 1979. 261.834K63A STX
Little, Kenneth, The sociology of urban women's image in African
literature, 1980. 809.93352L724S STX
Loth, Heinrich, Woman in ancient Africa, 1987. 305.4096L912F:E
STX
Lungu, Gatian F. and Irene M. Sinyangwe, eds., Women and development
in Africa: proceedings of a conference of the Professors World Peace
Academy, Zambia chapter, July 3-6, 1987, Siavonga, Kariba, Zambia,
1988. 305.42096W8424 AFX
Mayoux, Linda, ed., All are not equal: African women in cooperatives:
report of a conferica, 1984. DOC.C3.2:W84+5 STX
Murray, Maggie, Our own freedom, 1981. (chiefly photographs)
305.42096M9650 STX
Newman, Jeanne S. ed., Women of the world: Sub-Saharan Africa,
1984. DOCC3.2:W84+5 STX
Ntiri, Daphne, ed., One is not a woman, one becomes-- : the
African woman in a transitional society: African women tell their
story, 1982. 305.42096ON2 STX
Palmer, Ingrid, Gender and population in the adjustment of African
economies: planning for change, 1991. 339.5096P183G STX
Parkin, David, ed., Transformations of African marriage,
1987. 306.81096T687 STX
Resistance, war and liberation, 1980. 305.420968R311 AFX
Restoring women to history: teaching packets for integrating
women's history into courses on Africa, Asia, Latin America, the
Caribbean, and the Middle East, 1988. Q.305.4091724R313 WST
Robertson, Claire C., and Iris Berger, eds., Women and class
in Africa, 1986. 305.42096W84 STX
Robertson, Claire C., Women and slavery in Africa, 1983.
305.567096W842 STX
Romero, Patricia W., ed., Life histories of African women,
1987. 305.40967L626 STX
Romero, Patricia W., ed., Women's voices on Africa and Africans:
a century of travel writings, 1992. (English women's impressions
of Africa, including African women and their lives) 916.8044W842
UGX, STX
Rushing, Andrea Benton, Family resemblances: a comparative study
of women protagonists in contemporary African-American and Anglophone-African
novels, 1983. 809.896073R895F 1988 STX
Sacks, Karen, Sisters and wives: the past and future of sexual
equality, 1982. 305.4SA1S 1982 UGX, STX
Saito, Katrine Anderson, Agricultural extension for women farmers
in Africa, 1990. 630.715SA28A CRX, WST
Seager, Joni, and Ann Olson, Women in the world: an international
atlas, 1986. 305.42SE13W WST AFX
Stamp, Patricia, Technology, gender, and power in Africa,
1990. 305.3ST23T 1990 STX, WST, AFX
Staudt, Kathleen A., Women's politics and capitalist transformation
in Subsaharan Africa, 1984. 305.40967ST29W STX
Stichter, Sharon B. and Jane L. Parpart, ed.,Patriarchy and
class: African women in the home and the workforce, 1988. 305.40967P274
STX
Sweetman, David, Women leaders in African history, 1984.
305.43351096SW36W STX
Taiwo, Oladele, Female novelists of modern Africa, 1985.
823.09T139F MDX
Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn, ed., Women in Africa and the African
diaspora, 1987. 305.42096W8422 HEX, STX, WST
Thiam, Awa, Speak out, Black sisters: feminism and oppression
in Black Africa, 1986. (Muslim women) 301.4242T345P:E AFX
Turshen, Meredeth, ed., Women and health in Africa, 1991.
613.04244096W842 AFX
Van Sertima, Ivan, ed., Black women in antiquity, 1984.
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Wilentz, Gay Alden, Binding cultures: Black women writers in
Africa and the diaspora, 1992. 810.9W647B UGX, EGX
Women and the industrial development decade in Africa,
1986. Q.305.42096W842 STX
WEST AFRICA
Akande, J. O. Debo, et al., eds., The contribution of women
to national development in Nigeria, 1990. 305.4209669C768 STX
Amadiume, Ifi, Afrikan matriarchal foundations: the Igbo case,
1987. 966.9004963AM12A STX
Coles, Catherine and Beverly Mack, eds., Hausa women in the
twentieth century, 1991. 305.488937H294 EDX
Oppong, Christine, ed., Sex roles, population, and development
in West Africa: policy-related studies on work and demographic issues,
1987. 304.60966SE91 STX
Pittin, Renee Ilene, Selective education: issues of gender,
class, and ideology in northern Nigeria, 1990. Q.376.9669P686S
STX
Women in Nigeria today: proceedings of the first seminar on
Women in Nigeria, held at Ahmadu Bello University, on 27-28 May
1982; compiled by Women in Nigeria, 1985. 305.4209669W842W AFX,
STX
EAST AFRICA
Abidi, Syed A. H., ed., Ugandan women in development, 1990.
305.42096761UG1 AFX
Hammond, Jenny, Sweeter than honey: Ethiopian women and revolution:
testimonies of Tigrayan women, 1990. 305.4209634H184S AFX
Ismail, Ellen T. and Maureen Makki, Women of the Sudan,
1990. 305.488965IS5W STX
Kenyon, Susan M., Five women of Sennar: culture and change in
central Sudan, 1991. 306.09624K428F EDX
Kilbride, Philip Leroy, and Janet Capriotti Kilbride, Changing
family life in East Africa: women and children at risk, 1990.
304.2309676K551C STX
Kinyanjui, Kabiru, Secondary school education for girls in Kenya:
the need for a more science-based curriculum to enhance women's
greater participation in development, 1988. Q.373.082K626S STX
Laketch Dirasse, The commoditization of the female sexuality:
prostitution and socio-economic relations in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia,
1991. 06.74209633L149C EDX
Njau, Rebeka and Gideon Mulaki, Kenya women heroes and their
mystical power, 1984- 398.096762N659K STX
Obura, Anna P., Changing images: portrayal of girls and women
in Kenyan textbooks, 1991. 371.32096762OB8C AFX
Raikes, Alanagh, Pregnancy, birthing and family planning in
Kenya: changing patterns of behaviour: a health service utilization
study in Kisii District, 1990. 363.96096762R13P EDX
Shields, Nwanganga, ed., Women in the urban labor markets of
Africa: the case of Tanzania, 1980. 338.9W8934 no. 380 STX
Tadria, Hilda M., Changing economic and gender patterns among
the peasants of Ndejje and Sseguku in Uganda, 1985. 306.3615T122C
1990 STX
Talle, Aud, Women at a loss: changes in Maasai pastoralism and
their effects on gender relations, 1988. 305.48796395T144W 1988
EDX
Women and revolution in Eritrea, 1980. 963.5W842 1980 AFX
SOUTHERN AFRICA
Anderson, Sandra, Traditional midwives (Botswana), 1986.
618.20096883AN24T STX
Angolan women building the future: from national liberation to
women's emancipation, 1984. 305.409673AN47:P STX
Armstrong, Alice, Women and law in Southern Africa, 1987.
346.0134W842 STX
Batezat, Elinor, Women in Zimbabwe, 1989. 305.42096891B319W
AFX
Larsson, Anita, Women householders and housing strategies: the
case of Gaborone, Botswana, 1989. 363.59096883L329W CRX
Qunta, Christine N., ed., Women in Southern Africa, 1987.
305.40968W842 AFX
Schlyter, Ann, Women householders and housing strategies: the
case of Harare, Zimbabwe, 1989. 363.59096891SCH39W CRX
Weiss, Ruth, The women of Zimbabwe, 1986. 305.42096891W436W
STX
Working women, 1985. (South Africa) 331.4089968W892 STX WST
AFX
Wright, Marcia, Zena Stein, and Jean Scandlyn, eds., Women's
health and apartheid: the health of women and children and the future
of progressive primary health care in Southern Africa, 1988.
613.7045W84 STX
Rebecca Alexander / February 1993
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