Nigerian women in history, culture and development
By: edited by Obioma Nnaemeka and Chima J. Korieh.
Contributors: Nnaemeka, Obioma, 1948-; Korieh, Chima J. 1962-
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Trenton NJ
Language: eng
Subjects: Women -- Nigeria -- History; Women -- Nigeria -- Social conditions; Women in development -- Nigeria
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : long journeys of impediments and triumphs / Chima J. Korieh and Obioma Nnaemeka; title: Women in Nigerian history / Adiele Afigbo; title: "Ogidi Palaver" : the 1914 women's market protest / Nwando Achebe; title: Women and peasant movement in colonial eastern Nigeria / Chima J. Korieh; title: Colonialism and the social status of women in Ibibio society / Violeta I. Ekpo; title: Social change and gender relations in southeastern Nigeria c. 1650-1900 / Raphael Chijioke Njoku; title: Brazilian women in Lagos, 1879-1882 / Lisa A. Lindsay; title: Women, ritual, and politics of pre-colonial Yorubaland / Biodun Adediran and Olukoya Ogen; title: Gender relations in Ibibio traditional organizations / Ihuoma F. Abaraonye; title: Women, politics, and society among the Ìgbomìnà-Yorùbá / Funso Afolayan; title: Multiple gender ideologies and an academic means of empowerment : a Yoruba example / Donna K. Flynn; title: A woman's fertility strategy : the practice and perceptions of abortion by Ekiti Yoruba women / Elisha P. Renne; title: Women migration, intercultural marriage, and regional development / J.O. Charles; title: Women in the aftermath of ethnic conflicts : the Egbirra-Bassa crisis, 1986-2000 / Ibrahim Umaru and Theophilus D. Lagi.