Shaping our struggles : Nigerian women in history, culture and social change / edited by Obioma Nnaemeka and Chima J. Korieh. - Trenton NJ : Africa World Press, 2011. - xxv, 294 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-281) and index.

Introduction : long journeys of impediments and triumphs / Chima J. Korieh and Obioma Nnaemeka -- Women in Nigerian history / Adiele Afigbo -- "Ogidi Palaver" : the 1914 women's market protest / Nwando Achebe -- Women and peasant movement in colonial eastern Nigeria / Chima J. Korieh -- Colonialism and the social status of women in Ibibio society / Violeta I. Ekpo -- Social change and gender relations in southeastern Nigeria c. 1650-1900 / Raphael Chijioke Njoku -- Brazilian women in Lagos, 1879-1882 / Lisa A. Lindsay -- Women, ritual, and politics of pre-colonial Yorubaland / Biodun Adediran and Olukoya Ogen -- Gender relations in Ibibio traditional organizations / Ihuoma F. Abaraonye -- Women, politics, and society among the áIgbomáináa-Yoráubâa / Funso Afolayan -- Multiple gender ideologies and an academic means of empowerment : a Yoruba example / Donna K. Flynn -- A woman's fertility strategy : the practice and perceptions of abortion by Ekiti Yoruba women / Elisha P. Renne -- Women migration, intercultural marriage, and regional development / J.O. Charles -- Women in the aftermath of ethnic conflicts : the Egbirra-Bassa crisis, 1986-2000 / Ibrahim Umaru and Theophilus D. Lagi.

9781592217465 (pbk.) 159221746X (pbk.) 1592217451 (hard cover)

2009050051


Women--History.--Nigeria
Women--Social conditions.--Nigeria
Women in development--Nigeria.

HQ 1815.5 / S529 2011

305.48/89669