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245 00 a| "Wicked" women and the reconfiguration of gender in Africa /c| edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl A. McCurdy.;

300 a| xv, 325 pages :b| illustrations, maps ;c| 25 cm.;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

490 1 a| Social history of Africa;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 00 t| Women, marriage, divorce and the emerging Colonial state in Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1892-1904 /r| Judith Byfield --t| "She thinks she's like a man": marriage and (de)constructing gender identity in Colonial Buha, Western Tanzania, 1943-1960 /r| Margot Lovett --t| Wayward women and useless men : contest and change in gender relations in Ado-Odo /r| Andrea Cornwall --t| "Gone to their second husbands": marital metaphors and conjugal contracts in the Gambia's female garden sector /r| Richard A. Schroeder --t| Dancing women and Colonial men: the Nwaobiala of 1925 /r| Misty L. Bastian --t| Rounding up spinsters : gender chaos and unmarried women in Colonial Asante /r| Jean Allman --t| "My daughter...belongs to the government now" : marriage, Maasai, and the Tanzanian state /r| Dorothy L. Hodgson --t| Gender and the cultural construction of "bad women" in the development of Kampala-Kibuga, 1900-1962 /r| Nakanyike B. Musisi --t| You have left me wandering about: Basotho women and the culture of mobility /r| David B. Coplan --t| Urban threats : Manyema women, low fertility, and venereal diseases in Tanganyika, 1926-1936 /r| Sheryl A. McCurdy --t| Negotiating social independence : the challenges of career pursuits for Igbo women in Postcolonial Nigeria /r| Philomena E. Okeke --t| Politics of difference and women's associations in Niger: of "prostitutes," the public, and politics /r| Barbara M. Cooper --t| "Wicked women" and "respectable ladies" : reconfiguring gender on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1936-1964 /r| Jane L. Parpart --t| Gender and profiteering: Ghana's market women as devoted mothers and "human vampire bats" /r| Gracia Clark.;

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"Wicked" women and the reconfiguration of gender in Africa / edited by Dorothy L. Hodgson and Sheryl A. McCurdy.

Other author	Hodgson, Dorothy Louise.
Other author	McCurdy, Sheryl, 1956-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, ©2001.
Description	xv, 325 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm.
Subjects	Women--Africa. --Social conditions. Sex role--Africa.

Series	Social history of Africa Social history of Africa. ^A292175
Contents	Women, marriage, divorce and the emerging Colonial state in Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1892-1904 / Judith Byfield -- "She thinks she's like a man": marriage and (de)constructing gender identity in Colonial Buha, Western Tanzania, 1943-1960 / Margot Lovett -- Wayward women and useless men : contest and change in gender relations in Ado-Odo / Andrea Cornwall -- "Gone to their second husbands": marital metaphors and conjugal contracts in the Gambia's female garden sector / Richard A. Schroeder -- Dancing women and Colonial men: the Nwaobiala of 1925 / Misty L. Bastian -- Rounding up spinsters : gender chaos and unmarried women in Colonial Asante / Jean Allman -- "My daughter...belongs to the government now" : marriage, Maasai, and the Tanzanian state / Dorothy L. Hodgson -- Gender and the cultural construction of "bad women" in the development of Kampala-Kibuga, 1900-1962 / Nakanyike B. Musisi -- You have left me wandering about: Basotho women and the culture of mobility / David B. Coplan -- Urban threats : Manyema women, low fertility, and venereal diseases in Tanganyika, 1926-1936 / Sheryl A. McCurdy -- Negotiating social independence : the challenges of career pursuits for Igbo women in Postcolonial Nigeria / Philomena E. Okeke -- Politics of difference and women's associations in Niger: of "prostitutes," the public, and politics / Barbara M. Cooper -- "Wicked women" and "respectable ladies" : reconfiguring gender on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1936-1964 / Jane L. Parpart -- Gender and profiteering: Ghana's market women as devoted mothers and "human vampire bats" / Gracia Clark.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN	00040882
ISBN	0325070059 (alk. paper)
ISBN	0325070040 (pbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN	0852556950 (Currey : cloth)
ISBN	0852556454 (Currey : pbk.)

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