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Editor\n\nExploring the relationship between social change and social structures,thisseries considers the theory,praxis,promise,and pitfalls of movements inglobal and comparative perspective.The historical and contemporary socialmovements considered here challenge patterns of hierarchy and inequalityof race,gender,nationality,ethnicity,class,and culture.The series will em-phasize textbooks and broadly interpretive synthetic works.  \nAfrican Women:A Modern History,Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch,translated by Beth Raps  \nHuman Families,Stevan Harrell  \nPortraits of the Japanese Workplace:Labor Movements,Workers,and Managers,Kumazawa Makoto,translated by Mikiso Hane  \nCapital,the State,and Late Industrialization:Comparative Perspectives on the Pacific Rim,  \nedited by John Borrego,Alejandro Alvarez Bejar,and Jomo K.S.  \nPower Restructuring in China and Russia,Mark Lupher  \nThe Challenge of Local Feminisms:Women's Movements in Global Perspective,edited by Amrita Basu,with the assistance of C.Elizabeth McGrory  \nThe Transformation of Communist Systems:Economic Reform Since the 1950s,Bernard Chavance  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \n# AfricanWomen\n\n①  \n# A Modern History\n\nCatherine Coquery-Vidrovitch  \nUNIVERSITY OF PARIS-7 DENIS DIDEROT  \nTranslated byBeth Gillian Raps  \nWestview PressA Member of the Perseus Books Group  \n## Social Change in Global Perspective\n\nGrateful acknowledgment is made to the French Ministry of Culture for assistance in translat-ing this book.  \nAll rights reserved.Printed in the United States of America.No part of this publication may bereproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means,electronic or mechanical,includingphotocopy,recording,or any information storage and retrieval system,without permission inwriting from the publisher,  \nOriginally published in France as Les Africaines:Histoire des femmes d'Afrique noire du XIXau XXsiècle by Editions DesjonqueresCopyright ◎1994 by Editions DesjonquèresEnglish translation copyright ◎1997 by Westview Press,A Member of Perseus Books,L.LC.  \nAugmented new edition published in 1997 in the United States of America by Westview Press,5500 Central Avenue,Boulder,Colorado 80301-2877,and in the United Kingdomby WestviewPress,12 Hid's Copse Road,Cunnor Hill,Oxford OX29JJ  \nLibrary of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data  \nCoquery-Vidrovitch,Catherine.  \n[Africaines.English]  \nAfrican women:a modern history/Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch;translated by Beth Raps.  \np.cm.—(Social change in global perspective)  \nIncludes bibliographical references and index.  \nISBN0-8133-2360-6(hc).—0-8133-2361-4(pbk)  \n1.Women—Africa,Sub-Saharan-History—19th century.2.Women—  \nAfrica,Sub-Saharan—History—20th century.I.Title.  \nII.Series.  \nHQ1787.C66131997305.40967—dc21  \n96-47847  \nCIP  \nThe paper used in this publication meets the requirements of the American Nacional Standardfor Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials Z39.48-1984.  \n业  \nTo two historian friendsand pioneers in the field,Natalie Zemon Davisand Marcia Wright  \nTo my children Natacha,Marina,Sarah,and Julien  \nFor the new generation,the history of women is part ofthe history ofthe world  \nThis page intentionally left blank  \nIntroduction  \n1  \n## Part One       Nineteenth-Century Women       \n\n### 1 Peasant Women\n\n9  \nWomen,Family,and Household,9Daily Life,11  \nBeasts of Burden:The Tswana Example,13Gender and the Hierarchy of Work,15From Production to Reproduction:The Roleof Marriage,17  \n### 2 Slave Women\n\nSlaves,Marriage,and Social Hierarchy,21Slave Women in Central Africa,23Was Every Woman a Slave?26Women and Slavery in South Africa,27  \n3  \n### 3 Women and Trade at the Dawn of Colonialism\n\nTrade:A Tradition Rooted in West Africa,30  \nTrade:A Forgotten Tradition in East Africa?32  \n### 4 Powerful Women\n\nWomen Chiefs,34  \nQueen Mothers and F","cbCaitqlO0exj0qd","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaitqlO0exj0qd","pdf",15553923,337,"English","# 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