African Women Bibliographic Database

Number of records found: 54

Akanji, Bola. "From 'Work' to 'Job': Economic Emancipation of Rural Women in the Process of Structural Transformation." (In) Garba, P. Kassey and Akanji, Bola and Isiugo-Abanihe, Ifeoma (eds.). Women and Economic Reforms in Nigeria. Ibadan: University of Ibadan, Institute of African Studies, Women's Research and Documentation Centre. 1997.

Asemota, A. and Iganiga, B.O. and Omorogbe, V.O. "The Impact of Microfinance on Economic Development of Women in Edo State, Nigeria." (In) Longe, John B. (ed.). Taxation, Natural Resources, the Environment and Economic Development. Benin City, Nigeria: Amoni Publishers. 2005.

Boyd, Jean. "Conflicting Interests Which Influence Hausa Women." (In) Breitinger, Eckhard and Sander, Reinhard (eds.). Language and Education in Africa. Bayreuth, Germany: Bayreuth University. 1986. pp. 25-46.

Buckner, M. "Village Women as Town Prostitutes: Cultural Factors Relevant to Prostitution and HIV Epidemiology in Guinea-Bissau." (In) Becker, Charles and Dozon, Jean-Pierre and Obbo, Christine (eds.). Experiencing and Understanding AIDS in Africa. Dakar/Paris: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA)/Karthala. 1999. pp. 389-404.

Byfield, Judith A. "Women, Marriage, Divorce and the Emerging Colonial State in Abeokuta (Nigeria), 1892-1904." (In) Hodgson, Dorothy L. and McCurdy, Sheryl A. (eds.). 'Wicked' Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa. Portsmouth, New Hampshire/Oxford/Cape Town: Heinemann/James Currey/David Philip. Social History of Africa. 2001. pp. 27-46.

Caplan, Pat. "'Law' and 'Custom': Marital Disputes on Northern Mafia Island, Tanzania." (In) Caplan, Pat (ed.). Understanding Disputes: The Politics of Argument. Oxford/Providence, Rhode Island: Berg. 1995. pp. 203-221.

Charrad, Mounira M. "Repudiation Versus Divorce: Responses to State Policy in Tunisia." (In) Chow, Esther N. and Berheide, Catherine W. (eds.). Women, the Family, and Policy: A Global Perspective. Albany, New York: State University of New York Press. 1994.

Creevey, Lucy E. "Structural Adjustment and the Empowerment (or Disempowerment) of Women in Niger and Senegal." (In) Datta, Rekha and Kornberg, Judith (eds.). Women in Developing Countries: Assessing Strategies for Empowerment. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2002.

Daddieh, Cyril K. "Production and Reproduction: Women and Agricultural Resurgence in Sub-Saharan Africa." (In) Parpart, Jane I. (ed.). Women and Development in Africa: Comparative Perspectives. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America. 1988. pp. 165-193.

Dangarembga, Tsitsi. "Of Sewing Machines and the Struggle for the Symbolic: Some Notes on Some Aspects of the Relationship Between Language and Development." (In) Women and Activism: Women Writers Conference, Harare, 29-30 July, 1999. Harare: Zimbabwe International Book Fair Trust. 2000.

El Saadawi, Nawal. "Women and Activism: A Summary." (In) Women and Activism: Women Writers Conference, Harare, 29-30 July, 1999. Harare: Zimbabwe International Book Fair Trust. 2000.

Frederiksen, Bodil F. "Youth, Love and Family: Crisis and Choice for Young Women in a Nairobi Slum." (In) Bose, Pradip K. and Frederiksen, Bodil F. (eds.). Urban Culture and Democracy: Family and Gender. Calcutta: Centre for Studies in Social Science. 1999. pp. 17-31.

Govinden, Berry. "A Process of Expansion: Women, Writing and Development." (In) Women and Activism: Women Writers Conference, Harare, 29-30 July, 1999. Harare: Zimbabwe International Book Fair Trust. 2000.

Grubbs, Judith E. "Divorce in Egypt and the Near East." (In) Grubbs, Judith E. Women and the Law in the Roman Empire: A Sourcebook on Marriage, Divorce and Widowhood. New York: Routledge. 2002.

Hellum, Anne. "Gender and Legal Change in Zimbabwe: Childless Women and Divorce From a Socio-Cultural and Historical Perspective." (In) Adelman, Sammy and Paliwala, Abdul (eds.). Law and Crisis in the Third World. London: Hans Zell. 1993. pp. 243-269.

Himonga, Chuma N. "Property Disputes in Law and Practice: Dissolution of Marriage in Zambia." (In) Armstrong, Alice K. (ed.). Women and Law in Southern Africa. Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House. 1987. pp. 56-84.

Imam, Ayesha M-T. "Planning Women's Projects: An Experience From Kaduna State, Nigeria." (In) AAWORD. Women and Rural Development in Africa. Dakar: Association of African Women in Research and Development (AAWORD). AAWORD Occasional Paper Series #2. 1986. pp. 116-124.

Irwin, Leslie. "Gender Inequities in Technology in Developing Nations: Females and Computers in Traditional Cultures." (In) Falola, Toyin (ed.). Ghana in Africa and the World: Essays in Honor of Adu Boahen. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press. 2003.

Iyun, Bose F. "Infant and Child Mortality, Environmental Factors, and the Socioeconomic Status of Women in Two Rural Centres in the Western Part of Nigeria: A Research Proposal." (In) Mackenzie, Fiona and Ewusi, Kodwo (eds.). Research Issues in Child Health and Child Care: Proceedings of a Workshop. Ottawa, Ontario, Canada: International Development Research Centre (IDRC). 1988.

Kaufmann, Georgia L. and Lesthaeghe, Ron J. and Meekers, Dominique. "Marriage Patterns and Change in Sub-Saharan Africa." (In) Ebigbola, Joshua A. and Akin, J. and Van de Walle, Etienne (eds.). The Cultural Roots of African Fertility Regimes: Proceedings of the Ife Conference. Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo University. Department of Demography and Social Statistics. 1987. pp. 45-76.

Kishindo, Emma C. "Women and Housing Insecurity in Malawi: A Study of Two Low-Cost Housing Projects in Zomba District in Malawi." (In) Larsson, Anita and Mapetla, E.R.M. and Schlyter, Ann (eds.). Gender and Urban Housing in Southern Africa: Emerging Issues. Roma, Lesotho: University of Lesotho, Institute of Southern African Studies. 2003.

Kissaka, Huruma. "Transforming Governance to Promote People-Centred Development and Gender Equality for Elimination of Impoverishment." (In) Tanzania Gender Networking Programme and Feminist Activism Coalition. Fifth Annual Gender Festival: Papers Presented. Dar es Salaam: Tanzania Gender Networking Programme. 2001.

Krabacher, Thomas S. "Sexual Division of Labor Risk and Economic Success Along the Sherbro Coast of Sierra Leone." (In) Nadel-Klein, Jane and Davis, Dona Lee (eds.). To Work and to Weep: Women in Fishing Economies. St. Johns, Newfoundland, Canada: Memorial University of Newfoundland. Institute of Social and Economic Research. Social and Economic Papers #18. 1988. pp. 130-148.

Kuper, Adam. "Kgalagari Marriage." (In) Kuper, Adam. South Africa and the Anthropologist. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1987. pp. 57-70.

Landberg, Pamela. "Widows and Divorced Women in Swahili Society." (In) Potash, Betty (ed.). Widows in African Societies: Choices and Constraints. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. 1986. pp. 107-130.

Lema, E. "Light Beyond the Bend: Experiences of Women Publishing in Africa." (In) Jay, M. and Kelly, S. (eds.). Courage and Consequence: Women Publishing in Africa. Oxford: African Publishing Collective. 2002. pp. 37-53.

Maboreke, Mary. "The Love of a Mother: Problems of Custody in Zimbabwe." (In) Armstrong, Alice K. (ed.). Women and Law in Southern Africa. Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House. 1987. pp. 137-163.

Manyire, Henry. "Makerere West and Kasubi, Kampala City, Uganda: Inhibitions to Men's and Women's Private Engagement in Urban Housing Development." (In) Ishani, Zarina and Lamba, Davinder (eds.). Emerging African Perspectives on Gender in Urbanization: African Research on Gender Urbanisation. Nairobi: Mazingira Institute. 2001.

Maundeni, Tapologo. "The Impact of Parental Separation and Divorce on Children: A Southern African Perspective." (In) Rwomire, Apollo (ed.). African Women and Children: Crisis and Response. Westport, Connecticut: Praeger Publishers. 2001.

Mehretu, Assefa and Mutambirwa, Chris and Mutambirwa, Jane. "The Plight of Women in the Margins of Rural Life in Africa: The Case of Zimbabwe." (In) Jussila, H. and Majoral, R. and Delgado-Cravidão, F. (eds.). Globalization and Marginality in Geographical Space: Political, Economic and Social Issues of Development in the New Millennium. Aldershot, Great Britain/Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate. 2001. pp. 279-296.

Melesse, Hiruth. "Delayed Justice for Women in the Context of Divorce." (In) Adeleye-Fayemi, Bisi (ed.). Moving From Accommodation to Transformation: New Horizons for African Women Into the 21st Century. Kampala, Uganda: Akina Mama wa Afrika, Africa Office. 1998.

Murphy, Emma C. "Women in Tunisia: Between State Feminism and Economic Reform." (In) Doumato, Eleanor A. and Posusney, Marsha P. (eds.). Women and Globalization in the Arab Middle East: Gender, Economy and Society. Boulder, Colorado: Lynne Rienner Publishers. 2003.

Musisi, Nakanyike B. "Baganda Women's Night Market Activities." (In) Cornwall, Andrea (ed.). Readings in Gender in Africa. Bloomington, Indiana/Oxford: Indiana University Press/James Currey. 2005. pp. 132-140.

Mustafa, A.M.K. "Marriage and Divorce Among the Bedairiya." (In) Mohamed-Salih, M.A. and Mohamed-Salih, M.A. (eds.). Family Life in Sudan. Khartoum: University Graduate College. 1987. pp. 29-57.

Mutyaba, Regina L. "Comparative Study of the Status of Women Under the Law of Divorce and Their Economic Status in Uganda, Britain and Bangladesh." (In) Bond, Johanna. Voices of African Women: Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press. 2005. pp. 219-231.

Ncube, Welshman. "Underprivilege and Inequality: The Matrimonial Property Rights of Women in Zimbabwe." (In) Armstrong, Alice K. (ed.). Women and Law in Southern Africa. Harare: Zimbabwe Publishing House. 1987. pp. 3-34.

Neema, Stella. "Afflicted and Affected: Consequences of HIV/AIDS on Women in a Farming Community in Uganda." (In) Mutangadura, G. and Jackson, H. and Mukurazita, D. (eds.). AIDS and African Smallholder Agriculture. Avondale, Harare: Southern Africa AIDS Information Dissemination Service. 1999. pp. 70-78.

Ngoma, N.M. "Gender and Development in Malawi." (In) Women and Activism: Women Writers Conference, Harare, 29-30 July, 1999. Harare: Zimbabwe International Book Fair Trust. 2000.

Njeru, E.H.N. and Njoka, J.M. "Women Entrepreneurs in Nairobi: The Socio-Cultural Factors Influencing Their Investment Patterns." (In) Alila, Patrick O. and Pedersen, Poul O. (eds.). Negotiating Social Space: East African Micro-Enterprises. Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press. 2001.

Nwabueze, N. "From 'ori akwu' to odozi akwu': The Impact of Changing Status of Nigerian Women on Family Welfare." (In) Olurode, Lai (ed.). Women and Social Change in Nigeria. Lagos: Unity Publishing and Research. 1990. pp. 93-107.

Olarinde, E. Smaranda. "Marriage and Divorce Laws During the Colonial Era in Nigeria, 1863-1960." (In) University of Ibadan, Women's Research and Documentation Centre. Symposium on the Impact of Colonialism on Nigerian Women. Ibadan: University of Ibadan, Institute of African Studies, Women's Research and Documentation Centre (WORDOC). 1989.

Paliwala, Abdul. "Family Transformation and Family Law: Some African Developments in Financial Support on Relationship Breakdown." (In) Adelman, Sammy and Paliwala, Abdul (eds.). Law and Crisis in the Third World. London: Hans Zell. 1993. pp. 270-300.

Parpart, Jane L. "Sexuality and Power on the Zambian Copperbelt." (In) Bennett, Norman R. (ed.). Discovering the African Past: Essays in Honor of Daniel F. McCall. Boston: Boston University. African Studies Center. 1987. pp. 53-72.

Parpart, Jane L. "Sexuality and Power on the Zambian Copperbelt: 1926-1964." (In) Stichter, Sharon B. and Parpart, Jane L. (eds.). Patriarchy and Class: African Women in the Home and the Workplace. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press. 1988. pp. 141-160.

Parpart, Jane L. "'Wicked Women' and 'Respectable Ladies': Reconfiguring Gender on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1936-1964." (In) Hodgson, Dorothy L. and McCurdy, Sheryl A. (eds.). 'Wicked' Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa. Portsmouth, New Hampshire/Oxford/Cape Town: Heinemann/James Currey/David Philip. Social History of Africa. 2001. pp. 274-292.

Rusimbi, M. "Financing the Protocol: Considerations for Influencing Budgets From Experiences in Tanzania." (In) Musa, Roselynn and Mohammed, Faiza J. and Manji, Firoze M. (eds.). Breathing Life Into the African Union Protocol on Women's Rights in Africa. Nairobi/Oxford: Solidarity for African Women's Rights/African Books Collective. 2006.

Rwezaura, Barthazar A. "The Changing Role of the Extended Family in Providing Economic Support for an Individual in Africa." (In) Breitinger, Eckhard (ed.). African and Western Legal Systems in Contact. Bayreuth, Germany: Bayreuth University. 1989. pp. 57-84.

Sacko Diallo, Velore-Coumba. "The Effects of Modernization Processes on Women and the Counter-Strategies Implemented by the Women's Movement in Mali." (In) Braunmuhl, Claudia V. (ed.). International Conference, Women in the Development Process. Berlin: German Foundation for International Development. 1989.

Sam, Bernice. "Discrimination in the Traditional Marriage and Divorce System in Ghana: Looking at the Problem From a Human Rights Perspective." (In) Bond, Johanna. Voices of African Women: Women's Rights in Ghana, Uganda, and Tanzania. Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press. 2005. pp. 205-217.

Schlyter, Ann. "Esther's House: One Woman's 'Home Economics' in Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe." (In) Bryceson, Deborah F. and Potts, Deborah (eds.). African Urban Economies: Viability, Vitality or Vitiation. Basingstoke, Great Britain/New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2006. pp. 254-277.

Selolwane, Onalenna D. "Women, Wage Employment and Adult Education in Botswana: Priority Research Implications." (In) Sefali, Michael M. (ed.). Southern Africa Research for Development. Roma, Lesotho: Institute of Southern African Studies. 1988. pp. 241-248.

Udjo, Eric O. "A Determinant of Fertility and its Cultural Context Among Nigeria's Kanuri." (In) Ebigbola, Joshua A. and Akin, J. and Van de Walle, Etienne (eds.). The Cultural Roots of African Fertility Regimes: Proceedings of the Ife Conference. Ile-Ife, Nigeria: Obafemi Awolowo University. Department of Demography and Social Statistics. 1987. pp. 277-293.

Uzodike, Eunice N.U. "Settlement and Division of Property on Divorce." (In) Omotola, J.A. (ed.). Essays on Nigerian Law. Lagos: University of Lagos. Volume One. 1989.

Yenshu, E. "The African Woman and the Development Crisis: An Appraisal of Present Changes, Constraints on Empowerment and Prospects for the Future." (In) Simo, David (ed.). La Politique de Developpement a la Croisee des Chemins: Le Facteur Culturel. Yaounde, Cameroon: CLE for Goethe-Institut. 1998.