Description |
xix, 402 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
Contents |
Female and male life-cycles / by Helen Ware -- Female and male work profiles / by Eleanor R. Fapohunda -- Patterns of migration by sex / by Aderanti Adepoju -- Artistic and sex roles in a Limba chiefdom / by Simon Ottenberg -- The political and military roles of Akan women / by Kwame Arhin -- The feminine sphere in the institutions of the Songhay-Zarma / by Jeanne Bisilliat -- Dependence and autonomy : the economic activities of secluded Hausa women in Kano / by Enid Schildkrout -- Marital sexuality and birth-spacing among the Yoruba / by Lawrence A. Adeokun -- Who is a wife? : legal expressions of heterosexual conflicts in Ghana / by Dorothy Dee Vellenga -- The separateness of spouses : conjugal resources in an Ashanti town / by Katharine Abu -- Kinship and cocoa farming in Ghana / by Christine Okali -- Fishmongers, big dealers and fishermen : co-operation and conflict between the sexes in Ghanaian canoe fishing / by Emile Vercruijsse -- Marriage, divorce and polygyny in Winneba / by George Panyin Hagan -- Sex roles in Nigerian politics / by Kamene Okonjo -- Skill-building or unskilled labour for female youth : a Bauchi case / by Carol Martin -- Conjugal decision-making : some data from Lagos / by Wambui Wa Karanja -- Male chauvinism : men and women in Ghanaian highlife songs / by Nimrod Asante-Darko and Sjaak van der Geest -- Male and female factory workers in Accra / by Eugenia Date-Bah -- Urban contacts : a comparison of women and men / by Margaret Peil -- Houses of women : a focus on alternative life-styles in Katsina City / by Renée Pittin -- Gender relations and conjugality among the Baule / by Mona Etienne -- Avatime women and men, 1900-80 / by Lynne Brydon -- Female and male domestic cycles in urban Africa : the Adabraka case / by Roger Sanjek -- Sugar daddies and gold-diggers : the white-collar single women in Accra / by Carmel Dinan |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages [374]-391 |
Subject |
Interpersonal relations -- Africa, West.
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Interpersonal relations.
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Marriage -- Africa, West.
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Sex discrimination -- Africa, West.
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Sex role -- Africa, West.
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SUBJECT |
Africa, Western -- Social conditions. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001712
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Author |
Oppong, Christine.
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LC no. |
82020767 |
ISBN |
0043011586 |
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0043011594 (paperback) |
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