Women And Work In Africa (WESTVIEW SPECIAL STUDIES ON AFRICA)

Fourteen Articles On Women's Means Of Livelihood In Traditional, Colonial, And Modern Settings Throughout Africa. Examines The Recent Decline In Women's Abilities To Meet Their Social And Economic Responsibilities And Obligations. Recommends Strategies For Improvement Of Conditions. The Underdevelopment Of Women In A Variety Of Cultural Contexts Is Considered And Interpreted. Women, Work, And Ethnicity : The Sierra Leone Case / E. Frances White -- Control Of Land, Labor, And Capital In Rural Southern Sierra Leone / Carol P. Maccormack -- Dependence And Autonomy : The Economic Activities Of Secluded Hausa Women In Kano, Nigeria / Enid Schildkrout -- Women And Agricultural Change In The Railway Region Of Zambia : Dispossession And Counterstrategies, 1930-1970 / Maud Shimwaayi Muntemba -- Marginal Lives : Conflict And Contradiction In The Position Of Female Traders In Lsaka, Zambia / Ilsa Schuster -- Colonialism, Education, And Work : Sex Differentiation In Colonial Zaire / Barbara A. Yates -- (cont.) Reinventing The Past And Circumscribing The Future : Authenticité And The Negative Image Of Women's Work In Zaire / Francille Rusan Wilson -- International Development And The Evolution Of Women's Economic Roles : A Case Study From Northern Gulma, Upper Volta / Grace S. Hemmings-gapihan -- Women's Work In A Communal Setting : The Tanzanian Policy Of Ujamaa / Louise Fortmann -- Women Farmers And Inequities In Agricultural Services / Kathleen A. Staudt -- (cont.) Women's Employment And Development : An Assessment Of Role Incompatibility Among African Urban Women / Barbara Lewis -- The Child-care Dilemma Of Working Mothers In African Cities : The Case Of Lagos, Nigeria / Eleanor R. Fapohunda -- Women's Cooperative Thrift And Credit Societies : An Element Of Women's Programs In The Gambia / Coumba Ceesay-marenah. Edited By Edna G. Bay. Based On The 1979 Spring Symposium Of The African Studies Program At The University Of Illinois At Urbana-champaign. Includes Bibliographies And Index. Frontmatter List of Tables and Figures (page ix) Preface (page xi) Maps (page xiii) Introduction (EDNA G. BAY, page 1) SECTION I WOMEN'S PRODUCTION OUTSIDE THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS 1. Women, Work, and Ethnicity: The Sierra Leone Case (E. FRANCES WHITE, page 19) 2. Control of Land, Labor, and Capital in Rural Southern Sierra Leone (CAROL P. MACCORMACK, page 35) 3. Dependence and Autonomy: The Economic Activities of Secluded Hausa Women in Kano, Nigeria (ENID SCHILDKROUT, page 55) SECTION II ECONOMIC CHANGE AND IDEOLOGICAL CONFLICT 4. Women and Agricultural Change in the Railway Region of Zambia: Dispossession and Counterstrategies, 1930-1970 (MAUD SHIMWAAYI MUNTEMBA, page 83) 5. Marginal Lives: Conflict and Contradiction in the Position of Female Traders in Lusaka, Zambia (ILSA SCHUSTER, page 105) 6. Colonialism, Education, and Work: Sex Differentiation in Colonial Zaire (BARBARA A. YATES, page 127) 7. Reinventing the Past and Circumscribing the Future: Authenticité and the Negative Image of Women's Work in Zaire (FRANCILLE RUSAN WILSON, page 153) SECTION III DIFFERENTIAL EFFECTS OF DEVELOPMENT POLICIES 8. International Development and the Evolution of Women's Economic Roles: A Case Study from Northern Gulma, Upper Volta (GRACE S. HEMMINGS-GAPIHAN, page 171) 9. Women's Work in a Communal Setting: The Tanzanian Policy of Ujamaa (LOUISE FORTMANN, page 191) 10. Women Farmers and Inequities in Agricultural Services (KATHLEEN A. STAUDT, page 207) 11. Women's Employment and Development: A Conceptual Framework Applied to Ghana (WILLIAM F. STEEL AND CLAUDIA CAMPBELL, page 225) SECTION IV WOMEN AND WORK IN AFRICA: PRESENT AND FUTURE 12. Fertility and Employment: An Assessment of Role Incompatibility among African Urban Women (BARBARA LEWIS, page 249) 13. The Child-Care Dilemma of Working Mothers in African Cities: The Case of Lagos, Nigeria (ELEANOR R. FAPOHUNDA, page 277) 14. Women's Cooperative Thrift and Credit Societies: An Element of Women's Programs in the Gambia (COUMBA CEESAY-MARENAH, page 289) Notes on Contributors (page 297) Index (page 301) Past Symposia of African Studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (page 310)