Courtyards, markets, city streets: urban women in Africa

Abstract

Introduction * Urban Women in Africa: Courtyards, Markets, City Streets, Kathleen Sheldon. Migration and Urbanization * South African Women and Migration in Umtata, Transkei, 1880-1935, Sean Redding * Transitions in Kenyan Patriarchy: Attempts to Control Nairobi Area Traders, 1920-1963, Claire C. Robertson * Three Generations of Hausa Women in Kaduna, Nigeria, 1925-1985, Catherine M. Coles Courtyards: Marriage, Family, And Housing * Washing Dirty Laundry in Public: Local Courts, Custom, and Gender Relations in Postcolonial Lusaka, Karen Tranberg Hansen * Can Polygyny Be Avoided in Dakar?, Philippe Antoine and Jeanne Nanitelamio * Health, Gender Relations, and Poverty in the AIDS Era, Brooke Grundfest Schoepf * Moving and Coping: Women Tenants in Gweru, Zimbabwe, Miriam Grant Markets: Work and Survival * Women in Business: Class and Nairobi's Small and Medium-Sized Producers, Dorothy McCormick * Beyond Simple Survival: Women Microentrepreneurs in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, Mary Johnson Osirim * Prostitution: A Petit-mtier During Economic Crisis: A Road to Women's Liberation? The Case of Cameroon, Paulette Beat Songue City Streets: Politics and Community * I Am With You as Never Before'': Women in Urban Protest Movements, Alexandra Township, South Africa, 1912-1945, John Nauright * Urban Women's Movements and Political Liberalization in East Africa, Aili Mari Tripp