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This book will present three main themes of African women: African feminism, women and work, and women and politics, to inform readers of the current debates, to encourage new thinking on these issues, and to indicate areas for needed research.

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The Political Economy of Women in Africa; M.Turshen Feminism in Southern Africa and Exceptionalism in South Africa; P.McFadden Domestic Workers in South Africa: Class, Race, and Gender; D.Gaitskell, J.Kimble, M.Maconachie & E.Unterhalter The Proletarianization of Women in Tanzania; D.Fahy Bryceson Gender and Contract Farming: Growing Tea in Kenya; D.von Bülow & A.S›rensen Capitalist Development and Women´s Work: a Nigerian Case Study; C.Dennis Structural Adjustment and Women in Zimbabwe; N.Kanji & N.Jazdowska Women in Mozambique: Gender Struggles and Gender Politics; S.Arnfred Angolan Women´s Congress; M.Holness Strategies for Change: Women and Politics in Eritrea and South Africa; D.Connell The Nigerian Feminist Movement: Lessons from Women in Nigeria (WIN); B.Madunagu Isis-WICCE Continues to Bring Women Together; R.Ojiambo Ochieng Sudanese Women Writing their Status; A.Abdel Halim Tuareg Women, Gender Politics, and Rebellion in Niger Republic; O.Alidou

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MEREDETH TURSHEN Professor of Planning and Public Policy at Rutgers University, USA.

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