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Additional authors

1. Rosander, Eva Evers.

Description

1. 243 p. : map; 22 cm.

Summary

1. Contains 13 essays which discuss formal women's organizations, informal associations related to rural and semiurban organization of work, women's religious associations, and individual strategies outside the framework of associations.

Series statement

1. Seminar proceedings, 0281-0018 ; no. 31

Uniform title

1. Seminar proceedings from the Scandinavian Institute of African Studies ; 31.

Alternative title

1. Transformation des identités féminines

Subject

1. Women > Africa, West > Societies and clubs > Congresses
2. Women labor union members > Africa, West > Congresses
3. Women > Africa, West > Social conditions > Congresses
4. Women > Religious life > Africa, West > Congresses
5. Women > Africa, West > Identity > Congresses
6. Women > Identity
7. Women labor union members
8. Women > Religious life
9. Women > Social conditions
10. Women > Societies and clubs
11. Kulturelle Identität
12. Frau
13. Vrouwenorganisaties
14. Sociale identiteit
15. women
16. womens organization
17. association
18. social role
19. economic role
20. community
21. women workers
22. sex discrimination
23. social class
24. trade union
25. manufacturing
26. textile industry
27. rural women
28. fishing
29. small scale industry
30. social network
31. midwives
32. knowhow
33. religion
34. womens empowerment
35. Catholic Church
36. Islam
37. urban area
38. low income
39. marriage
40. human relations
41. education
42. cultural factor
43. statistical table
44. Women > Africa, West > Social conditions
45. Women > Africa, West > Societies and clubs
46. Women labor union members > Africa, West
47. Women > Religious life > Africa, West
48. Femmes > Afrique occidentale > Associations > Congrès
49. Femmes > Afrique occidentale > Congrès
50. Femmes dans les syndicats > Afrique occidentale > Congrès
51. Femmes > Vie religieuse > Congrès
52. femmes
53. organisation féminine
54. rôle social
55. rôle économique
56. communauté
57. travailleuses
58. discrimination fondée sur le sexe
59. classe sociale
60. syndicat
61. industries manufacturières
62. industrie textile
63. femmes rurales
64. pratique de la pêche
65. petite industrie
66. réseau social
67. sage-femme
68. savoir-faire
69. autonomisation des femmes
70. Eglise catholique
71. islam
72. zone urbaine
73. faible revenu
74. mariage
75. relations humaines
76. éducation
77. facteur culturel
78. tableau statistique
79. mujeres
80. organización femenina
81. asociación
82. papel social
83. papel económico
84. comunidad
85. trabajadoras
86. discriminación por razones de sexo
87. clase social
88. sindicato
89. industrias manufactureras
90. industria textil
91. mujeres rurales
92. pesca
93. pequeña industria
94. red social
95. partera
96. conocimiento técnico
97. religión
98. potenciación de las mujeres
99. iglesia católica
100. zona urbana
101. bajos ingresos
102. matrimonio
103. relaciones humanas
104. educación
105. factor cultural
106. cuadros estadísticos
107. West Africa
108. Westafrika
109. Cameroon
110. Ghana
111. Mali
112. Nigeria
113. Senegal
114. West Africa
115. Cameroun
116. Sénégal
117. Afrique occidentale
118. Camerún
119. Africa Occidental

Genre/Form

1. Conference papers and proceedings
2. conference paper.
3. map.
4. document de conférence.
5. carte géographique.
6. documento de conferencia.
7. mapa.

Contents

1. Preface (starting p. 9) -- Introduction (starting p. 13) / Eva Evers Rosander -- Sect. 1 Unions and Women's National Organizations -- Associating Women: Female Linkage, Collective Identities and Political Ideology in Ghana (starting p. 37) / Prudence Woodford-Berger -- Multiple Identities and Multiple Organizing Strategies of Female Wage Workers in Kano's Manufacturing Sector (starting p. 54) / Hussaina Abdullah -- A Woman Worker in a Lagos Factory: Her Power Base in Family, Community, Labour Market, and Union (starting p. 69) / Gunilla Androe -- Sect. 2 Women's Associations, Women's Work and Development -- La naissance du groupe Nsaw-Mboum des femmes de Ngaoundere (starting p. 87) / Anastasie Idole Mekounde -- La situation des femmes au Senegal en milieu rural et dans la peche artisanale (starting p. 96) / Ndeye Coumba Fall Diop -- La la shwo cwo, "la femme qui prend la grossesse" : Les accoucheuses traditionnelles dans la societe senoufo du Mali (starting p. 107) / Jasmine Abel Jessen -- Sect. 3 Religious Associations -- A Nigerian Sisterhood in the Transformation of Female Identity (starting p. 123) / Esther Shebi -- In Search of Women's Dignity and Greater Freedom: Fieldwork on Women and Identity among the Catholic Fatima Sisters in Jos, Nigeria (starting p. 136) / Ulrika Bamidele Erlandsson -- Les femmes, l'Islam et les associations religieuses au Senegal : Le dynamisme des femmes en milieu urbain (starting p. 148) / Penda Mbow -- Le dahira de Mam Diarra Bousso a Mbacke : Analyse d'une association religieuse de femmes senegalaises (starting p. 160) / Eva Evers Rosander -- Sect. 4 Organizing Female Lives -- Costs and Rewards -- Exchange in Relationships : Experiences of Some Ghanaian Women (starting p. 177) / Akosua Adomako Ampofo -- Magic and Love on the Road to Higher Education in Cameroon (starting p. 197) / Lisbet Holtedahl -- Evolution de l'espace habitable et transformation des identites feminines chez les Fuloe du Nord-Cameroun (starting p. 214) / Mahmoudou Djingui -- About the Contributors (starting p. 227) -- Index in English (starting p. 231) -- Index en francais (starting p. 238)

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Note

1. Consists chiefly of papers from a conference held in Ngaoundéré, Cameroon, in 1993.

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Language (note)

1. French and English, with abstracts in English and French.