Women, marriage, divorce and the emerging Colonial state in Abeokuta (Nigeria) 1892-1904 / Judith Byfield
"She thinks she's like a man": marriage and (de)constructing gender identity in Colonial Buha, Western Tanzania, 1943-1960 / Margot Lovett
Wayward women and useless men : contest and change in gender relations in Ado-Odo, S.W. Nigeria / Andrea Cornwall
"Gone to their second husbands": marital metaphors and conjugal contracts in the Gambia's female garden sector / Richard A. Schroeder
Dancing women and Colonial men: the Nwaobiala of 1925 / Misty L. Bastian
Rounding up spinsters : gender chaos and unmarried women in Colonial Asante / Jean Allman
"My daughter...belongs to the government now" : marriage, Maasai, and the Tanzanian state / Dorothy L. Hodgson
Gender and the cultural construction of "bad women" in the development of Kampala-Kibuga, 1900-1962 / Nakanyike B. Musisi
You have left me wandering about: Basotho women and the culture of mobility / David B. Coplan
Urban threats : Manyema women, low fertility, and venereal diseases in Tanganyika, 1926-1936 / Sheryl A. McCurdy
Negotiating social independence : the challenges of career pursuits for Igbo women in Postcolonial Nigeria / Philomena E. Okeke
Politics of difference and women's associations in Niger: of "prostitutes," the public, and politics / Barbara M. Cooper
"Wicked women" and "respectable ladies" : reconfiguring gender on the Zambian Copperbelt, 1936-1964 / Jane L. Parpart
Gender and profiteering: Ghana's market women as devoted mothers and "human vampire bats" / Gracia Clark.