Hausa Women in the Twentieth Century

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Contents Foreword by Neil Skinner Acknowledgments Note on Foreign Terms 1. Women in Twentieth-Century Hausa Society vii IX xi Catherine Coles and Beverly Mack 3 Part 1. Hausa Women in Islam 2. Islamic Leadership Positions for Women in Contemporary Kano Society Balaraba B. M. Sule and Priscilla E. Starratt 29 3. From Accra to Kano: One Woman's Experience Deborah Pellow 50 4. Islamic Values, the State, and "the Development of Women": The Case of Niger Roberta Ann Dunbar 69 5. Hausa-Fulani Women: The State of the Struggle Bilkisu Yusuf 90 Part 2. The Power of Women 6. Royal Wives in Kano Beverly Mack 109 7. Women and the Law in Early-Twentieth-Century Kano Allan Christelow 130 8. The Role of Women in Kano City Politics Barbara J. Callaway 145 Part 3. Women in the Changing Economy 9. Hausa Women's Work in a Declining Urban Economy: Kaduna, Nigeria, 1980-1985 Catherine Coles 163 10. Hausa Women in the Urban Economy of Kano Alan Frishman 192 v VI Part 4. Women's Voices: Feminine Gender in Ritual, the Arts, and Media 11. Gender Relationships and Religion: Women in the Hausa Contents Bori of Ader, Niger Nicole Echard 207 12. Marriage in the Hausa Tatsuniya Tradition: A Cultural and Cosmic Balance Connie Stephens 221 13. Women's Roles in the Contemporary Hausa Theater of Niger 14. Ideology, the Mass Media, and Women: A Study from Radio Kaduna, Nigeria Glossary of Hausa and Other Foreign Terms Bibliography Contributors Index Janet Beik 232 Ayesha M. Imam 244 255 261 289 291 ...