African Women: Early History to the 21st Century

Women And Gender In Africa Before 1700 -- Market Traders, Queens, And Slaves In The Seventeenth And Eighteenth Centuries -- Religion And Slavery In The Nineteenth Century -- Colonial Era, 1850s To 1945: Work And Family -- Politics, Leadership, And Resistance To Colonialism Until 1945 -- Liberation Struggles And Politics From The 1950s To The 1970s -- Work, Family, And Urbanization From The 1970s To The 1990s -- Women And Politics After Independence -- Women At The Beginning Of The Twenty-first Century. Kathleen Sheldon. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 301-314) And Index.