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Dreams of Trespass: Tales of a Harem Girlhood
by Fatima Marnissi  Publisher Comments ”I was born in a harem in 1940 in Fez, Morocco...” So begins Fatima Mernissi in this exotic and rich narrative of a childhood behind the iron gates of a domestic harem. In Dreams of Trespass, Mernissi weaves her own memories with the dreams...
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Binding Cultures: Black Women Writers in Africa and the Diaspora
by Gay Wilentz Synopsis This study examines the cultural bonds between African and African-American women as illustrated in the writings of contemporary authors of the United States and West Africa....
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Women Pay the Price: Structural Adjustment in Africa and the Caribbean
by Gloria T Emeagwali Synopsis In this scholarly compilation, Third World researchers argue that IMF/World Bank structural adjustment policies have wreaked havoc especially among...
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Exchange Is Not Robbery: More Stories of an African Bar Girl
by John Chernoff Publisher Comments While living in West Africa in the 1970s, John Chernoff recorded the stories of "Hawa," a spirited and brilliant but uneducated woman whose insistence on being respected and treated fairly propelled her, ironically, into a life of marginality and luck as...
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Women in South African History: Basus'iimbokodo, Bawel'imilambo / They Remove Boulders and Cross Rivers
by Nomboniso Gasa Publisher Comments In this collection of essays, the often-marginalized voices of South African women are presented, in four chronological sections, as a nuanced and complex narrative that provides new interpretations and different readings on the major phases of South...
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Re-Creating Ourselves: African Women and Critical Transformations
by Mol Ogundipe Leslie Synopsis A selection of writings in which the author has critically and creatively pondered issues of gender, politics, and social transformation for at least three decades...
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Hustling Is Not Stealing: Stories of an African Bar Girl
by John M. Chernoff Publisher Comments The prospects of a sixteen-year-old West African girl with no money, education, or experience might seem pretty depressing. But if she's got a hell of a lot of nerve and a knack for finding the funny side in even the worst situations, she just might...
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Daughters of the Nile: Photographs of Egyptian Women's Movements, 1900-1960
by Hind Wassef Publisher Comments This book is the first to provide photographic documentation of Egyptian women's movements during the first half of the twentieth century. It is a compilation of archival photographs that includes portraits of key figures in the movements, demonstrations,...
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Women Writing Africa: The Eastern Region (Women Writing Africa)
by Amandina Lihamba Publisher Comments This project is "essential . . . a rich resource for scholars and general readers alike"(Library Journal). The Eastern Regioncontains over 130 texts from 29 languages in five countries-Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia-from the mid-1800s to the...
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Harem Years: The Memoirs of an Egyptian Feminist, 1879-1924
by Huda Shaarawi Publisher Comments In this rare first-hand account of the private world of a Cairo harem during the years before Egypt declared independence in 1922, Shaarawi recalls her childhood and early adult life in the seclusion of an upper-class Egyptian household, including her...
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African Women: A General Bibliography, 1976-1985
by Davis A Bullwinkle Publisher Comments "This is the first of a planned three-volume bibliography that aims to 'bring together all the English language publications written about women in Africa during the United Nations Decade for Women.' It includes books, monographs, government reports...
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Voices of Resistance: Oral Histories of Moroccan Women (Suny Series, Oral & Public History)
by Alison Baker Synopsis Providing new information on women's participation in the Moroccan independence movement, Voices of Resistance offers a rare opportunity to hear Moroccan women speak freely about their personal lives. Each woman is introduced in terms of her family...
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Woman Between Two Worlds: Portrait of an Ethiopian Rural Leader
by Judith Olmstead Synopsis Dynamic, opinionated, gritty, and charismatic, Chimate Chumbalo successfully navigated male-dominated factional politics, experimenting with different strategies to create for her people the society that she wanted for herself....
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Women in Morocco: Participation in the Workforce as an Avenue of Social Mobility
by Rachel Alpert
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Women and Health in Africa
by Meredeth Turshen Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-241) and index....
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Women of Phokeng Consciousness Life Stra
by Belinda Bozzoli
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Womens Liberation & the African Freedom
by Thomas Sankara
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Khul Khaal Five Egyptian Women Tell Thei
by Nayra Atiya
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Surviving Without Romance: African Women Tell Their Stories
by Mary Lou Cummings
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African Women the Success Story
by Christine Qunta
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