Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa

Kathleen Sheldon (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

448 Seiten

2005
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-0-8108-5331-7 (ISBN)

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Featuring an essay on African women's history, this dictionary includes a chronology of African women's history, a list of acronyms, and a country index to facilitate finding entries on particular topics. There is also a bibliography of citations that is organized first into historical periods, and then into twenty topical categories.

The core of the dictionary is the formal entries on nearly 700 topics, individuals, organizations, events, and publications. The book opens with an essay on African women's history, and includes a chronology of African women's history, a list of acronyms, and a country index to facilitate finding entries on particular topics. There is also a bibliography of nearly 2,000 citations that is organized first into historical periods and then into twenty topical categories including art, education, health, human rights, literature, marriage, slavery, and urbanization.

Kathleen Sheldon is an independent historian with a research affiliation at the University of California, Los Angeles, Center for the Study of Women. She has published books and articles on African history, with particular concentration on women's history and on Mozambique.

Part 1 Editor's Foreword Part 2 Acknowledgments Part 3 List of Abbreviations and Acronyms Part 4 Map Part 5 Chronology Part 6 Introduction Part 7 THE DICTIONARY Part 8 Appendix: Dictionary Entries by Country Part 9 Bibliography Part 10 About the Author

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.3.2005
Reihe/Serie	Historical Dictionaries of Women in the World ; 1
Verlagsort	Lanham, MD
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 221 mm
Gewicht	649 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	0-8108-5331-0 / 0810853310
ISBN-13	978-0-8108-5331-7 / 9780810853317
Zustand	Neuware