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1 online resource (xiv, 173 pages) |
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Boston University, Papers on Africa ; VII |
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Boston University papers on Africa ; v. 7.
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| Contents |
The misfortunes of some -- the advantages of others : land sales by women in Sinnar / Jay Spaulding -- Women, property, and litigation among the Bagemder Amhara, 1750s to 1850s / Donald Crummey -- Justice, women, and the social order in Abercorn, northeastern Rhodesia, 1897-1903 / Marcia Wright -- Making customary law : men, women, and courts in colonial Northern Rhodesia / Martin Chanock -- The articulation of legal spheres / Sally Engle Merry -- Outside the courts : extra-legal strategies for subordinating women / Daisy Hilse Dwyer -- Women as owners, occupants, and managers of property in colonial western Kenya / Margaret Jean Hay -- Passes and bypasses : freedom of movement for African women under the Urban Areas Act of South Africa / Julia Wells -- Women's rights in law and practice : marriage and dispute settlement in colonial Lagos / Kristin Mann |
| Notes |
Papers presented at a conference held at Columbia University in April 1979 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
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| Subject |
Women -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Africa -- History
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Women's rights -- Africa -- History
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Women's rights.
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Women -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Vrouwen.
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Recht.
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Femmes -- Statut juridique -- Afrique -- Histoire.
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Africa.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Hay, Margaret Jean, editor.
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Wright, Marcia, editor.
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