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).

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