Author: Hafkin, Nancy J. & Bay, Edna G.; editors:
Title: Women in Africa : Studies in Social and Economic Change
Description: Stanford [CA], Stanford University Press, 1976. orig. cloth.. xiv,306 pp, 22x14cm,. Textual maps. Minor rubbing. Slight page-edge soil. VG. ¶ Contains 12 papers. Includes: N.J. Hafkin & E.G. Bay: "Introduction"; G.E. Brooks: "The 'Signares' of Saint-Louis and Gorée: Women Entrepreneurs in Eighteenth-Century Senegal"; K. Okonjo: "The Dual-Sex Political System in Operation: Igbo Women and Community Politics in Midwestern Nigeria"; J. van Allen: " 'Aba Riots' or Igbo 'Women's War'? Ideology, Stratification, and the Invisibility of Women"; M.J. Hay: "Luo Women and Economic Change During the Colonial Period"; C. Robertson: "Ga Women and Socioeconomic Change in Accra, Ghana"; B.C. Lewis: "The Limitations of Group Action Among Entrepreneurs: The Market Women of Abidjan, Ivory Coast"; I. Berger: "Rebels or Status-Seekers? Women as Spirit Mediums in East Africa"; M. Strobel: From 'Lelemama' to Lobbying: Women's Associations in Mombasa, Kenya"; F.C. Steady: "Prostestant Women's Associations in Freetown, Sierra Leone"; L. Mullings: Women and Economic Change in Africa"; J.L. Brain: " Less Than Second-Class: Women in Rural Settlement Schemes in Tanzania".

Keywords: African Ethnology, Conditions, Sociology, Economy, Sub-Saharan, Anthropology, Anthropology, Political,