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Women in Africa: Studies in Social and Economic Change

Edited by Nancy J. Hafkin and Edna G. Bay
Reviewed by By Jennifer Seymour Whitaker
April 1977
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Edited by Nancy J. Hafkin and Edna G. Bay
Stanford University Press
1976
306 pp.
$15.00

Viewing the changing lives of groups of women in East and West Africa through historical, anthropological, sociological and economic perspectives, the essays in this volume give concrete meaning to the theme of African women's loss of economic and political status through the workings of colonialism.