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 | Fallon, Kathleen M. (2008) |
| Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa | |
 | Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. |
 | MacKian, Sara C. (2008) |
| What the Papers Say: Reading Therapeutic Landscapes of Women's Health and Empowerment in Uganda | |
| Health and Place. Volume 14 #1. March. p. 106-115. |
| Skaine, Rosemarie (2008) |
| Women Political Leaders in Africa | |
| Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland and Co. 206p. |
 | Abdullah, Hussaina J. (2007) |
| Women as Emergent Actors: A Survey of New Women's Organizations in Nigeria since the 1990s | |
| In: Cole, Catherine M. and Manuh, Takyiwaa and Miescher, Stephan (eds.). Africa After Gender? Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 150-167. |
| Achebe, Nwando; Teboh, Bridget (2007) |
| Dialoging Women | |
| In: Cole, Catherine M. and Manuh, Takyiwaa and Miescher, Stephan (eds.). Africa After Gender? Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 63-81. |
| Adiele, Faith (2007) |
| This Nigeria Will Eat You Up | |
| In: Go Your Own Way: Women Travel the World Solo. p. 268-284. |
| Alexander, Peter (2007) |
 | Women and Coal Mining in India and South Africa, c.1900-1940 |
| African Studies. Volume 66 #2-3. August. p. 201-222. |
| Andrade, Susan Z. (2007) |
| Rioting Women and Writing Women: Gender, Class, and Public Sphere in Africa | |
| In: Cole, Catherine M. and Manuh, Takyiwaa and Miescher, Stephan (eds.). Africa After Gender? Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 85-107. |
 | Biancani, Francesca (2007) |
| 'Let Down the Curtin around Us': The Hierarchy of Modern Prostitution in Colonial Cairo, 1882-1952 | |
| Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), November 17-20, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Tucson. |
| Bivins, Mary W. (2007) |
| Telling Stories, Making Histories: Women, Words, and Islam in Nineteenth-Century Hausaland and the Sokoto Caliphate | |
| Portsmouth, New Hampshire: Heinemann. Social History in Africa Series. 192p. |
| Boddy, Janice (2007) |
| Why Do They Cling to Superstition? British Images of Islam and Women's Culture in Colonial Sudan | |
| Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), November 17-20, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Tucson. |
| Boddy, Janice P. (2007) |
| Civilizing Women: British Crusades in Colonial Sudan | |
| Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press. |
| Boris, Eileen (2007) |
| Gender after Africa! | |
| In: Cole, Catherine M. and Manuh, Takyiwaa and Miescher, Stephan (eds.). Africa After Gender? Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 191-204. |
| Carey, Alice (2007) |
| Shokran | |
| In: Go Your Own Way: Women Travel the World Solo. p. 205-217. |
| Chirwa, Vera M. (2007) |
| Fearless Fighter: The Life of Vera Chirwa | |
| London/New York: Zed Books. |
| Civantos, Christina E. (2007) |
| Reading and Writing the Egyptian Woman Intellectual: Nabawiyya Musa's 'Ta'rikhi bi-Qalami' | |
| Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), November 17-20, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Tucson. |
| Cole, Catherine M.; Manuh, Takyiwaa; Miescher, Stephan (eds.) (2007) |
| Africa after Gender? | |
| Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. 328p. |
| Cuno, Kenneth M. (2007) |
| Restitution of Conjugal Rights/Bayt al-Ta'a in Egyptian Law | |
| Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), November 17-20, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Tucson. |
| Day, Lynda R. (2007) |
| Nyarroh of Bandasuma, 1885-1914: A Re-Interpretation of Female Chieftaincy in Sierra Leone |
| The Journal of African History. Volume 48 #3. November. p. 415-437. |
| Deakin, Michael (2007) |
| Hypathia of Alexandria: Mathematician and Martyr | |
| Amherst, New York: Prometheus Books. |
| Dennis-Bay, Laura (2007) |
| Fracturing Binarisms to Create a Space of 'Jouissance': Marie Cardinal's 'Au Pays de Mes Racines' |
| Stichproben - Vienna Journal of African Studies. Volume 7 #12. p. 117-140. |
| Folorunso, C.A. (2007) |
| Gender and Archaeological Site Formation: Ethnoarchaeological Studies in Parts of Nigeria | |
| In: Hamilton, Sue and Whitehouse, Ruth and Wright, Katherine (eds.). Archaeology and Women: Ancient and Modern Issues. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press. |
| Gasa, Nomboniso (ed.) (2007) |
| Women in South African History: basus'iimbokodo, bawel'imilambo / They Remove Boulders and Cross Rivers | |
| Cape Town: HSRC press. 458p. |
| Griffiths, Claire (2007) |
| Colonial Subjects: Race and Gender in French West Africa | |
| Bradford, Great Britain: Emerald Group Publishing. |
| Guelke, Leonard (2007) |
| Conversion of Native and Slave Women in Dutch Colonial South Africa: From Assimilation to Apartheid | |
| In: Morin, Karen M. and Guelke, Jeanne K. (eds.). Women, Religion, and Space: Global Perspectives on Gender and Faith. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. |
| Hartman, Saidiya V. (2007) |
| Lose Your Mother: A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route | |
| New York: Farar, Straus and Giroux. 270p. |
| Hartmann, Wolfram (2007) |
| Urges in the Colony. Men and Women in Colonial Windhoek, 1890-1905 | |
| Journal of Namibian Studies. #1. p. 39-71. |
| Hepburn, Stephanie; Simon, Rita J. (2007) |
| Women's Roles and Statuses the World over | |
| Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books. 267p. |
| Hodes, Rebecca (2007) |
| HIV/AIDS in South African Documentary Film, c.1990-2000 |
| Journal of Southern African Studies. Volume 33 #1. March. p. 153-171. |
| Hunt, Karen (2007) |
| Towards a Gendered and Raced Socialist Internationalism: Dora Montefiore Encounters South Africa (1912-14) |
| African Studies. Volume 66 #2-3. August. p. 321-341. |
| Hunt, Nancy R. (2007) |
| Between Fiction and History: Modes of Writing Abortion in Africa |
| Cahiers d'études africaines. Volume 47 #186. p. 277-312. |
| Hynd, Stacey (2007) |
| Deadlier Than the Male? Women and the Death Penalty in Colonial Kenya and Nyasaland, c. 1920-57 |
| Stichproben - Vienna Journal of African Studies. Volume 7 #12. p. 13-33. |
| Jacob, Wilson (2007) |
| The Subject of Egypt: A History of Gender, Sexuality, and the (Post)Colonial | |
| Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), November 17-20, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Tucson. |
| Johnson-Odim, Cheryl (2007) |
| Women and Gender in the History of Sub-Saharan Africa | |
| Washington, D.C.: American Historical Association. Women's and Gender History in Global Perspective Series. 61p. |
 | Karenga, Tiamoyo T. (2007) |
| The Office of the Divine Wife of Amen in the 25th and 26th Dynasties: A Study of Women and Power in Ancient Egypt | |
| M.A. Thesis: California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, California. 217p. |
| Kelly, Hilarie (2007) |
| Woman is a Strong Beast: Power and Betrayal in Somali and Orma Women's Tales | |
| In: Ahmed, Ali J. and Adera, Taddesse (eds.). The Road Less Traveled: Reflections on the Literatures of the Horn of Africa. Trenton, New Jersey: Red Sea Press. |
| Khanna, Ranjana (2007) |
| Algeria Cuts: Women and Representation, 1830 to the Present | |
| Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Cultural Memory in the Present Series. |
| Konate, Dior (2007) |
| On Colonial Laws and the Treatment of Young Female Delinquents in Senegal: The Case of Leonie Gueye |
| Stichproben - Vienna Journal of African Studies. Volume 7 #12. p. 35-60. |
| Kopf, Jennifer (2007) |
| Women in Colonial Regimes - Repression of Muslim Women's Movements in Colonial East Africa | |
| In: Morin, Karen M. and Guelke, Jeanne K. (eds.). Women, Religion, and Space: Global Perspectives on Gender and Faith. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press. |
| Kreuger, Katie (2007) |
| Unwelcome Hospitality | |
| In: Go Your Own Way: Women Travel the World Solo. p. 92-99. |
| Latreille, Martin; Verdon, Michel (2007) |
| Wives against Mothers: Women's Power and Household Dynamics in Rural Tunisia | |
| Journal of Family History. Volume 32 #1. p. 66-89. |
| Lihamba, Amandina (ed.) (2007) |
| Women Writing Africa: The Eastern Region (Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia) | |
| New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of new York. Women Writing Africa Project, Volume Three. |
| Lindsay, Lisa A. (2007) |
| Working with Gender: The Emergence of the 'Male Breadwinner' in Colonial Southwestern Nigeria | |
| In: Cole, Catherine M. and Manuh, Takyiwaa and Miescher, Stephan (eds.). Africa After Gender? Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 241-252. |
| MacMaster, Neil (2007) |
| The Colonial 'Emancipation' of Algerian Women: The Marriage Law of 1959 and the Failure of Legislation on Women's Rights in the Post-Independence Era |
| Stichproben - Vienna Journal of African Studies. Volume 7 #12. p. 91-116. |
| Mahoney, Rosemary (2007) |
| Down the Nile: Alone in a Fisherman's Skiff | |
| New York: Little, Brown, and Co. 273p. |
| Maiwada, Salihu; Renne, Elisha P. (2007) |
| New Technologies of Embroidered Robe Production and Changing Gender Roles in Zaria, Nigeria, 1950-2005 | |
| Textile History. Volume 38 #1. May. p. 25-58. |
| Maloba, Wunyabari, O. (2007) |
| African Women in Revolution | |
| Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press. 296p. |
| Mansson, F.; Alves, A.; da Silva, Z.J.; Andersson, S. (2007) |
| Trends of HIV-1 and HIV-2 Prevalence among Pregnant Women in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa: Possible Effect of the Civil War, 1998-1999 | |
| Sexually Transmitted Infections. Volume 83 #6. October. p. 463-467. |
| McCaskie, T.C. (2007) |
| The Life and Afterlife of Yaa Asantewaa |
| Africa: Journal of the International African Institute. Volume 77 #2. p. 151-179. |
| Miescher, Stephan F. (2007) |
| Becoming an [c]panyin: Elders, Gender, and Masculinities in Ghana since the Nineteenth Century | |
| In: Cole, Catherine M. and Manuh, Takyiwaa and Miescher, Stephan (eds.). Africa After Gender? Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 253-269. |
| Mutongi, Kenda B. (2007) |
| Worries of the Heart: Widows, Family, and Community in Kenya | |
| Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 256p. |
| Noorani, Yaseen (2007) |
| The Moral Discourse of Modernity: Orientalism and Gender in Early 20th Century Egypt | |
| Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), November 17-20, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Tucson. |
| Osorio, Conceicao (2007) |
| Subverting Political Power? Gender Analysis of the 2004 Legislative Elections in Mozambique | |
| Maputo: WLSA Mozambique. 160p. |
| Owen, Hilary (2007) |
| Mother Africa, Father Marx: Women's Writing of Mozambique, 1948-2002 | |
| Lewisburg, Pennsylvania: Bucknell University Press. 274p. |
| Pelckman, Lotte (2007) |
| Negotiating the Memory of Fulbe Hierarchy among Mobile Elite Women | |
| In: de Bruijn, Mirjam and van Dijk, Rijk and Gewald, Jan-Bart (eds.). Strength Beyond Structure: Social and Historical Trajectories of Agency in Africa. Leiden: E.J. Brill African Dynamics Series #6. |
| Quirke, Stephen (2007) |
| Women of Lahun (Egypt 1800 BC) | |
| In: Hamilton, Sue and Whitehouse, Ruth and Wright, Katherine (eds.). Archaeology and Women: Ancient and Modern Issues. Walnut Creek, California: Left Coast Press. |
| Rizzo, Lorena (2007) |
| The Elephant Shooting: Colonial Law and Indirect Rule in Kaoko, Northwestern Namibia, in the 1920s and 1930s |
| The Journal of African History. Volume 48 #2. July. p. 245-266. |
| Samuelson, Meg (2007) |
| Remembering the Nation, Dismembering Women? Stories of the South African Transition | |
| Scottsville, South Africa: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press. 272p. |
| Seferdjeli, Ryme (2007) |
| Women Moudjahidate as Viewed by the Moudjahidine during the Algerian Decolonisation-War | |
| Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), November 17-20, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Tucson. |
| Smythe, Kathleen R. (2007) |
| African Women and White Sisters at the Karema Mission Station, 1894-1920 | |
| Journal of Women's History. Volume 19 #2. Summer. |
| Sonbol, Amira (2007) |
| Gender Violence and Class in Nineteenth Century Egypt | |
| Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), November 17-20, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Tucson. |
| Stanley, Liz; Dampier, Helen (2007) |
| Cultural Entrepreneurs, Proto-Nationalism and Women's Testimony Writings: From the South African War to 1940 |
| Journal of Southern African Studies. Volume 33 #3. September. p. 501-519. |
| Stein, Susanne (2007) |
| So That Her Son Will Not be a Burden Upon Her: Divorce, Migration, and Child Custody in Cairo, 1941-1946 | |
| Paper presented at the 2007 Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA), November 17-20, 2007, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Tucson. |
| Stone, Judith (2007) |
| When She was White: The True Story of a Family Divided by Race | |
| New York: Miramax Books/Hyperion. 324p. |
| Strydom, Irene (2007) |
| Labouring for a Better Life: The Struggle of Anna Scheepers and Lucy Mvubelo for Better Labour Conditions, 1960-1980 | |
| M.A. Thesis: University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, South Africa. 217p. |
| Terretta, Meredith (2007) |
| A Miscarriage of Revolution: Cameroonian Women and Nationalism |
| Stichproben - Vienna Journal of African Studies. Volume 7 #12. p. 61-90. |
| Thomas, Lynn M. (2007) |
| Gendered Reproduction: Placing Schoolgirl Pregnancies in African History | |
| In: Cole, Catherine M. and Manuh, Takyiwaa and Miescher, Stephan (eds.). Africa After Gender? Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Press. p. 48-62. |
| Vambe, Maurice Taonezvi (2007) |
| 'Aya Mohobo': Migrant Labour and the Cultural Semiotics of Harare (Mbare) African Township, 1930-1970 |
| African Identities. Volume 5 #3. December. p. 355-369. |
| Van der Westhuizen, Carlene; Goga, Sumayya; Oosthuizen, Morne (2007) |
| Women in the South African Labour Market, 1995-2005 | |
| Cape Town: University of Cape Town, Development Policy Research Unit. Working Paper 07/118. February. 50p. |
| Vaughan, Megan (2007) |
| The Story of an African Famine: Gender and Famine in Twentieth-Century Malawi | |
| Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. |
| Waylen, Georgina (2007) |
| Women's Mobilization and Gender Outcomes in Transitions to Democracy: The Case of South Africa | |
| Comparative Political Studies. Volume 40 #5. May. p. 521-546. |
| White, R.G.; Hall, C.; Wolff, Brent (2007) |
| Period and Cohort Dynamics in Fertility Norms at the Onset of the Demographic Transition in Kenya, 1978-1998 | |
| Journal of Biosocial Science. Volume 39 #3. p. 67-89. |
| Wieder, Alan (2007) |
| A Mother and Her Daughters: Jewish Teachers and the Fight against Apartheid | |
| Teachers College Record. Volume 109 #5. May. p. 1235-1260. |
| Wolday, D.; Meles, H.; Hailu, E.; Messele, T.; Mengistu, Y.; Fekadu, M.; Parekh, B.S.; Wuhib, T. (2007) |
| Temporal Trends in the Incidence of HIV Infection in Antenatal Clinic Attendees in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, 1995-2003 | |
| Journal of Internal Medicine. Volume 261 #2. February. p. 132-137. |
| Worku, Deginesh (2007) |
| Acculturation of Ethiopian Women Refugees/Immigrants with Families in the United States of America from 1989-2004 | |
| Ph.D. dissertation: Capella University, Minneapolis, Minnesota. |
| Adams, Melinda J. (2006) |
| Colonial Policies and Women's Participation in Public Life: The Case of British Southern Cameroons |
| African Studies Quarterly. Volume 8 #3. Spring. p. 1-22. |
| Adeokun, L.A.; Oduwole, M.; Oronsaye, F.; Gbogboade, A.O.; Aliyu, N.; Wumi, A.; Sadiq, G.; Sutton, I.; Taiwo, M. (2006) |
| Trends in Female Circumcision between 1933 and 2003 in Osun and Ogun States, Nigeria (A Cohort Analysis) |
| African Journal of Reproductive Health. Volume 10 #2. August. p. 48-56. |
| Aderinto, S. (2006) |
| Prostitution and Urban Social Relations | |
| In: Tijani, Hakeem I. (ed.). Nigeria's Urban History: Past and Present. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. |
| Afigbo, Adiele E.; Falola, Toyin (eds.) (2006) |
| Myth, History and Society: The Collected Works of Adiele Afigbo | |
| Trenton, New Jersey: Africa World Press. 634p. |
| Akurang-Parry, Kwabena O. (2006) |
| Making a Difference in Colonial Interventionism in Gold Mining in Wassa Fiase, Gold Coast (Ghana): The Activism of Two Women, 1874-1893 | |
| In: Gier, Jaclyn J. and Mercier, Laurie (eds.). Mining Women: Gender in the Development of a Global Industry, 1670 to 2005. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. |
| Al-Rawi, Rosina-Fawzia B. (2006) |
| Midnight Tales: A Woman's Journey through the Middle East | |
| Northampton, MA: Olive Branch Press. 303p. |
| Angel-Ajani, Asale (2006) |
| Displacing Diaspora: Trafficking, African Women, and Transnational Practices | |
| In: Gomez, Michael A. (ed.). Diasporic Africa: A Reader. New York: New York University Press. |
| Angell, Stephen (2006) |
| Quaker Women in Kenya and Human Rights Issues | |
| In: Smith, R. Drew (ed.). Freedom's Distant Shores: American Protestants and Post-Colonial Alliances With Africa. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press. |
| Aniekwu, Nkolika Ijeoma (2006) |
| Converging Constructions: A Historical Perspective on Sexuality and Feminism in Post-Colonial Africa |
| African Sociological Review. Volume 10 #1. p. 143-160. |
| Atere, W.; Akinwale, A. (2006) |
| Gender, Urbanization and Socio-Economic Development | |
| In: Tijani, Hakeem I. (ed.). Nigeria's Urban History: Past and Present. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America. |
| Azuonye, Chukwuma (2006) |
| Feminist of Simply Feminine? Reflections on the Works of Nana Asma'u, a 19th Century West African Woman Poet, Intellectual and Social Activist | |
| Meridians: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. Volume 6 #2. Spring. |
| Bank, Andrew (2006) |
| Anthropology and Fieldwork Photography: Dorothea Bleek's Expedition to the Northern Cape and the Kalahari, July to December 1911 |
| Kronos: Journal of Cape History. #32. p. 77-113. |
| Bantebya-Kyomuhendo, Grace; McIntosh, Marjorie K. (2006) |
| Women, Work and Domestic Virtue in Uganda, 1900-2003 | |
| Oxford: James Currey. Eastern African Studies. 308p. |
| Barnard, Anne Lindsay (Scottish)(1750-1825); Lenta, Margaret (ed.) (2006) |
| Paradise, the Castle and the Vineyard: Lady Anne Barnard's Cape Diaries | |
| Johannesburg: Witwatersrand University Press. 311p. |
| Barnes, Teresa (2006) |
| No Bubble: Contemporary Lives in the African Academy | |
| Journal of Women's History. Volume 18 #1. |
| Benti, Getahun (2006) |
| The Migration of Women: Socioeconomic and Cultural Factors | |
| In: Benti, Getahun. Addis Ababa: Migration and the Making of a Multiethnic Metropolis, 1941-1974. Trenton, New Jersey: Red Sea Press. |
| Berger, Iris (2006) |
| From Ethnography to Social Welfare. Ray Phillips and Representations of Urban Women in South Africa |
| Le Fait Missionnaire: Social Sciences and Missions. #19. December. p. 91-116. |
| Bier, Laura E. (2006) |
| From Mothers of the Nation to Daughters of the State: Gender and the Politics of Inclusion in Egypt, 1922-1967 | |
| Ph.D. dissertation: New York University, New York, New York. 351p. |
| Bilanda, Lesley (2006) |
| With What Remains: A Woman's Search for Truth in the Country That Murdered Her Husband | |
| London: Hodder and Stoughton. |
| Bilinda, Lesley (2006) |
| With What Remains: A Woman's Search for Truth in the Country That Murdered Her Husband | |
| London: Hodder and Stoughton. |
| Blizzard, Sarah M. (2006) |
| Women's Roles in the 1994 Rwanda Genocide and the Empowerment of Women in the Aftermath | |
| M.S. Thesis: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia. |
| Bonate, Liazzat J.K. (2006) |
| Matriliny, Islam and Gender in Northern Mozambique |
| Journal of Religion in Africa. Volume 36 #2. p. 139-166. |
| Booysen-Wolthers, Annelize; Fourie, Frederick C.v.N.; Botes, Lucius (2006) |
| Changes in the Development Status of Women in South Africa from 1996 to 2001: For the Better or for the Worse? |
| Development Southern Africa. Volume 23 #5. December. p. 605-626. |
| Brandt, Johanna (2006) |
| The Petticoat Commando, or, Boer Women in Secret Service | |
| Doylestown, Pennsylvania: Wildside Press. |
| Buijs, Gina (2006) |
| Stranger-Queens: A Discussion of Some Aspects of the Ritual and Executive Roles of Women Rulers and Court Officials in Pre-Colonial Empires in East and Southern Africa | |
| Leiden/Singapore: International Institute for Asian Studies/National University of Singapore, Asia Research Institute (ARI). |
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