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Book Reviews: Women and Gender Studies: "African Feminism. The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa," edited by Gwendolyn Mikell
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Book Reviews: Women and Gender Studies: "African Feminism. The Politics of Survival in Sub-Saharan Africa," edited by Gwendolyn Mikell

Marie Kruger
African Studies Review, Vol.42(1), pp.197-198
04/1999

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Abstract

Lauds Mikell's exploration of how African women define and negotiate gender identities in local, national and global contexts (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1997, 361p, $39.95 cloth, $19.95 paper). Explains that this anthology is divided into three parts that examine how gender relations change with regard to legal, social, economic and political implications.
Sociology and Anthropology

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