Africa Cultural Studies: History and Literature

Compiled by Jody Ranck
December, 1996

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 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

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

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.

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

C

 Center for Women's Global Leadership (1994). Gender Vilence 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

 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.

G

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

H

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

K

 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.

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.

O

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

P

 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.

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 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.

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

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 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.

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

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 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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 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).

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

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