Gendering Ethnicity in African Women's Lives

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Do African men and women think about and act out their ethnicity in different ways? Most studies of ethnicity in Africa consider men's experiences, bu... Lees meer

Holding the World Together

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume demonstrates social, economic, and cultural changes on the African continent and internationally... Lees meer

A Bold Profession

Leslie Anne Hadfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• In rural South African clinics, Black nurses played critical roles. Charged with administering valuable and life-saving health care measures despite a... Lees meer

Silenced Resistance

Joanna Allan

• Hardcover | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Spain's former African colonies-Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara-share similar histories. Both are under the thumbs of heavy-handed, postcolonial ... Lees meer

Gossip, Markets, and Gender

Tuulikki Pietila

• Hardcover | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Cardiac Cuisine is a how-to for healthier eating: sample weight-loss and weight-maintenance menus are supplemented by clear explanations of nutritiona... Lees meer

Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya

Ousseina D Alidou

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• In education, journalism, legislative politics, social justice, health, law, and other arenas, Muslim women across Kenya are emerging as leaders in lo... Lees meer

Embodying Honor

Amal Fadlalla

• Hardcover | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• In the Red Sea Hills of eastern Sudan, where poverty, famines, and conflict loom large, women struggle to gain the status of responsible motherhood th... Lees meer

Tired of Weeping

Jonina Einarsdottir

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• In this comprehensive and provocative study of maternal reactions to child death in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, anthropologist Jonina Einarsdottir cha... Lees meer

Rising Anthills

Elisabeth Bekers

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Shows how the debate on female genital excision has evolved over the last four decades of the twentieth century, in response to changing attitudes abo... Lees meer

Surviving the Slaughter

Marie Beatrice Umutesi

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• In this firsthand account of inexplicable brutality, day-to-day suffering, and survival, Marie Beatrice Umutesi sheds light on ""the other genocide"" ... Lees meer

Tired of Weeping

Jonina Einarsdottir

• Hardcover | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• In this comprehensive and provocative study of maternal reactions to child death in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, anthropologist Jónína Einarsdóttir cha... Lees meer

Engaging Modernity

Ousseina D Alidou

• Hardcover | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Engaging Modernity is Ousseina Alidou's rich and compelling portrait of Muslim women in Niger as they confront the challenges and opportunities of the... Lees meer

Shaping Tradition

David Uru Iyam

• Hardcover | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Agwagune women in southeastern Nigeria contribute to the cultural construction of their societies in deep and systematic ways. This reality is often c... Lees meer

Claiming Civic Virtue

Jan Bender Shetler

• Hardcover | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Among communities in the Mara region of Tanzania, it is considered men's responsibility to maintain "history." But when Jan Bender Shetler's questions... Lees meer

Slave Trade and Abolition

Vanessa S Oliveira

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Traces how existing commercial networks adapted to changes in the Atlantic slave trade during the first half of the nineteenth century. Slave Trade an... Lees meer