Africa Development Studies

Compiled by Jody Ranck
December, 1996

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 Abdullah, Hussaina (1993). The Democratic Process and the Challenge of Gender in Nigeria. Review of African Political Economy, 56:11.

Afshar, Haleh (1991). Women, Development & Survival in the Third World. Longman Press, NY.

Ahmad,Christine Choi (1995). Finely Etched Chattel: The Invention of a Somali Woman. in Ali Jimale Ahmad ed. The Invention of Somalia. Red Sea Press, Lawrenceville, NJ.

B

 Bangura, Yusuf. Economic Restructuring, Coping Strategies and Social Change: Implications for Institutional Development in Africa (1994). Development and Change, 25:785.

Barrett, Hazel; Browne, Angela (1994). Women's time, labour-saving devices and rural development in Africa. Community Development Journal, 29(3):203-214.

Baylies, Carolyn and Janet Bujra (1993). Challenging Gender Inequalities in Africa. Review of African Political Economy, 56:3. (See entire issue for articles on SAP and urban women in Zimbabwe, Contract farming in Kenya, Student movements in Nigeria, punishment and women in Ghana, etc.

Bozzoli, Belinda (1983). Marxism, Feminism and South African Studies. J of Southern African Studies, 9(2):139.

Bulow, Dorthe Von (1991). Transgressing Gender Boundaries: Kipsigis women in Kenya. Centre for Development Research, Copenhagan.

------------------------ (1992). Bigger than men? Gender Relations and their Changing Meaning in Kipsigis Society, Kenya. Africa, 62(4):1992, 523-546.

-------------------------(1995). Power, Prestige and Respectability. Women's Groups in Kilimanjaro, Tanzania. CDR Working Paper, Copenhagan.

Burgess, Stephen and Janet C. Beilstein (1996). Women's Voice and Agency in Rural Africa: Small-Scale Communal Farmers in Zimbabwe. Women & Politics, 16(2):19.

Burke, Timothy (1996). Lifebuoy Men, Lux Women. Commodification, Consumption and Cleanliness in Modern Zimbabwe. Duke University Press, Durham.

C

 Caffentzis, C. George (1995). The Fundamental Implications of the Debt Crisis for Social Reproduction in Africa. In Dalla Costa eds. (1995).

Carney, Judith and Michael Watts (1991). Disciplining Women? Rice, Mechanization, and the Evolution of Mandinka Gender Relations in Senegambia. Signs, 16(41):651.

Center for Women's Global Leadership (1994). Gender Violence and Women's Human Rights in Africa.

Cock, Jacklyn (1989). Militarism and Women in South Africa. Review of African Political Economy, 45/46:50.

D

 Dalla Costa, Mariarosa and Giovanna Dalla Costa (1995). Paying the Price. Women and the Politics of International Economic Strategy. Zed Books, NJ.

Daymond, M.J. ed. (1996). South African Feminisms. Writing, Theory, and Criticism 1990-1994., Garland Publishing, NY.

E

 Eastern Africa Social Science Research Review. 8(2): June 1992.

F

 Federici, Silvia (1995). Economic Crisis and Demographic Policy in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Case of Nigeria. In Dalla Costa eds. (1995).

G

 Gladwin, Christina ed. (1991). Structural Adjustment and African Women Farmers. University of Florida Press, Gainesville.

Gordon, April (1996). Transforming Capitalism and Patriarchy: Gender and Development in Africa. Lynne Reimer, Boulder.

H

 Hafkin, Nancy (1976). Women in Africa: Studies in Social and Economic Change. Stanford University Press, Stanford.

K

 Kanji, Nazneen (1995). Gender, Poverty and Economic Adjustment in Harare, Zimbabwe. Environment and Urbanization, 7(1): April .

---------------------(1993). Challenging gender inequalities in Africa. Review of African Political Economy, 56:132.

Kratz, Corinne (1994). Affecting Performance. Meaning, Movement and Experience in Okick Women's Initiation. Smithsonian, Washington, DC.

L

 Lewis, Desiree (1996). The Politics of Feminism in South Africa. in Daymond ed. (1996).

Lockwood, M. Engendering Adjustment or Adjusting Gender? Some New Approaches to Women and Development in Africa. Discussion Paper No. 315, Institute of Development Studies, Brighton.

M

 Mashinini, Emma (1991). Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life. A South African Autobiography. Routledge, London.

Mblinyi, Marjorie (1985). `City' and `Countryside' in Colonial Tanganyika. Economic and Political Weekly, 20(43):October 26, WS-88.

McClintock, Anne (1990). Maidens, Maps and Mines: King Soloman's Mines and the Reinvention of Patriarchy in Colonial South Africa. in Cheryl Walker ed. Women and Class in Southern Africa to 1945.

---------------------(1995). Imperial Leather. Race, Gender and Sexuality in the Colonial Contest. Routledge, London.

Meena, Ruth (1992). Gender in South Africa: conceptual and theoretical issues. Southern Africa Political EconomySeries, Harare.

Michel, Andree (1995). African Women, Development and the North-South Relationship. in Dalla Costa eds. (1995)

O

 Ogundipe-Leslie, Molara (1994). Re-creating ourselves: African women & critical transfromations. AWP, Trenton, NJ.

P

 Pankhurst, Helen (1992). Gender, Development, and Identity: An Ethiopian Study. Zed Books, NJ.

Parpart, Jane (1985). African Women and Development: Gender in the Lagos Plan of Action. Working Paper 87, Michigan State University, Office of Women in Development.

------------------(1987). Class and Gender on the Copperbelt: Women in Northern Rhodesian Copper Mining Communities, 1926-1964, in Robertson and Berger, Women and Class in Africa.

Parpart, Jane and Kathleen Staudt (1989). Women and the State in Africa. Lynne Rienner, Boulder.

Pitten, Renee (1990). Selective Education: Issues of Gender, Class & Ideology in Northern Nigeria. Review of African Political Economy, 48:7.

R

 Robertson, Claire (1987). Developing Economic Awareness: Changing Perspectives in Studies of African Women 1976-1985. Feminist Studies, 13(1):97-135.

Robertson, Claire and Iris Berger eds. (1986). Women and Class in Africa. Africana, NY.

Runyan, Anne Sisson and V. Spike Peterson (1991). The Radical Future of Realism: Feminist Subversions of IR Theory. Alternatives, 16:67-106.

Ryan, Pamela (1996). The Future of South African Feminism. in Daymond ed. South African Feminisms.

S

 Signs, 16(4). Special Issue: Family, State, and Economy in Africa, (Summer 1991)

Silberschmidt, Margrethe (1991). Rethinking men and gender relations: an investigation of men, their changing roles within the household and the implicationf for gender relations in Kisii District, Kenya. Centre for Development Research, Copenhagan.

Snyder, Margaret (1995). African Women and Development. A History. Zed Books, NJ.

Sparr, Pamela ed. (1994). Mortgaging Women's Lives: Feminist Critiques of Structural Adjustment. Zed Books, 1994.

Spring, Anita (1995). Agricultural Development and gender issues in Malawi. University Press of America, Inc., Lanham, MD.

Stamp, Patricia (1991). Burying Otieno: the politics of gender and ethnicity in Kenya. Signs, 16(4):summer.

Stichter, Sharon and Jane Parpart (1990). Women, Employment and the Family in the International Division of Labor. Temple University Press, Philadelphia.

Sylvester, Christine (1991). Zimbabwe: The Political Economy of Contradictory Development, Westview Press, Boulder, CO.

---------------------- (1991). Urban Women Cooperators, `Progress' and `African Feminism' in Zimbabwe. Differences, 3(1):39-62.

T

 Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn (1990). Black Women Freedom Fighters in South Africa and the United States: A Comparative Analysis. Dialectical Anthropology. 15(2- 3):151.

Thomas-Slayter, Barbara (1995). Gender, Environment and Development in Kenya: A Grassroots Perspective. Boulder.

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 Udoh James, Valentine (1995). Women and Sustainable Development in Africa. Praeger Publishers.

Unterhalter, Elaine (1990). The Impact of Apartheid on Women's Education: South Africa. Review of African Political Economy, 48:66.

W

 Walker, Cherryl (1994). Women, `Tradition' and Reconstruction. Review of African Political Economy, 61:347.

--------------------. (1995) South Asia Bulletin. Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East, 15(1).

-------------------- ed. (1990). Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945. James Currey, London.

White, Luise (1990). The Comforts of Home: Prostitution in Colonial Nairobi. University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

Whitworth, Sandra (1989). Gender in the Inter-Paradigm Debate. Millenium, 18(2):265-72.

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