Courtyards, Markets, City Streets

Kathleen Sheldon is a research scholar at the centre for the Study of Women at the University of California at Los Angeles. She has published extensively on African women's history, with a particular interest in the history of women in Mozambique and is the author of Courtyards, Markets, City Streets, (Westview Press, 1996).

• Part 1 Introduction -- 1 Urban African Women: Courtyards, Markets, City Streets -- Part 2 Migration and Urbanization -- 2 South African Women and Migration in Umtata, Transkei, 1880-1935 -- 3 Transitions in Kenyan Patriarchy: Attempts to Control Nairobi Area Traders, 1920-1963 -- 4 Three Generations of Hausa Women in Kaduna, Nigeria, 1925-1985 -- Part 3 Courtyards: Marriage, Family, and Housing -- 5 Washing Dirty Laundry in Public: Local Courts, Custom, and Gender Relations in Postcolonial Lusaka -- 6 Can Polygyny Be Avoided in Dakar? -- 7 Health, Gender Relations, and Poverty in the AIDS Era -- 8 Moving and Coping: Women Tenants in Gweru, Zimbabwe -- Part 4 Markets: Work and Survival -- 9 Women in Business: Class and Nairobi's Small and Medium-Sized Producers -- 10 Beyond Simple Survival: Women Microentrepreneurs in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe -- 11 Prostitution, a Petit-metier During Economic Crisis: A Road to Women's Liberation? The Case of Cameroo -- Part 5 City Streets: Politics and Community -- 12 "I Am with You as Never Before": Women in Urban Protest Movements, Alexandra Township, South Africa, 1912-1945 -- 13 Urban Women's Movements and Political Liberalization in East Africa