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Title:West African Women: Some Considerations
Author:Teboh, Bridget
Year:1994
Periodical:Ufahamu
Volume:22
Issue:3
Pages:50-62
Language:English
Geographic term:West Africa
Subjects:women
Women's Issues
Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups)
Marital Relations and Nuptiality
Cultural Roles
Historical/Biographical
Sex Roles
Status of Women
Abstract:The stereotype view often found in the literature, that African women are passive and helpless, is misleading and wrong. Through women's communal endeavours and daily tasks they are active agents, and women's agency is constantly being reinvented in the context of political and social change, as evidenced by a number of examples from West Africa, such as the Igbo Women's War of 1929, the institution of marriage, the status of women in society and the responsibilities of married women. Note, ref.
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