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Author: Kathleen Sheldon
ISBN: 9780253027160

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African women's history is a topic as vast as the continent itself, embracing an array of societies in over fifty countries with different geographies, social customs, religions, and historical situations. In African Women: Early History to the 21st Century, Kathleen Sheldon masterfully delivers a comprehensive study of this expansive story from before the time of records to the present day. She provides rich background on descent systems and the roles of women in matrilineal and patrilineal systems. Sheldon's work profiles elite women, as well as those in leadership roles, traders and market women, religious women, slave women, women in resistance movements, and women in politics and development. The rich case studies and biographies in this thorough survey establish a grand narrative about women's roles in the history of Africa.

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Title African Women: Early History to the 21st Century
Author Kathleen Sheldon
Binding Hardback
Pages 352
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Indiana University Press (Ips)
Publication date 2017-05-01
Features Bibliography, Index
ISBN 9780253027160 / 0253027160
Weight 1.41 lbs (0.64 kg)
Dimensions 9 x 6 x 0.81 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.06 cm)
Themes
- Cultural Region: African
- Ethnic Orientation: African
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical:
- Topical: Women's Interest
Category History - General History
Library of Congress subjects Women - Africa - History, Women - Africa - Social conditions
Dewey Decimal Code 305.409

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Choice, 02/01/2018, Page 0

About the author

Kathleen Sheldon is an independent scholar who has a research affiliation with the Center for the Study of Women at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of Pounders of Grain: A History of Women, Work, and Politics in Mozambique and the Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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