African women : early history to the 21st century /
African women's history is a topic as vast as the continent itself, embracing an array of societies in over fifty countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. In African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, Kathleen Sheldon masterfully deliver...
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Bloomington, Indiana :
Indiana University Press,
[2017]
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Table of Contents:
- Women and gender in Africa before 1700
- Market traders, queens, and slaves in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
- Religion and slavery in the nineteenth century
- Colonial era, 1850s to 1945: work and family
- Politics, leadership, and resistance to colonialism until 1945
- Liberation struggles and politics from the 1950s to the 1970s
- Work, family, and urbanization from the 1970s to the 1990s
- Women and politics after independence
- Women at the beginning of the twenty-first century.
