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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, vol. 24, no. 1, 1992/1993, pp. 1-52. 016.9605C936 n.s. AFX

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: a bibliography, 1981. 016.30714K64W AFX

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. 960J825 STX

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
University of Illinois Library at Urbana-Champaign


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