Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Tables xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. Part I. Legal Interactions in the Domestic Realm
8. Chapter 1. Changing the Meaning of Marriage: Women and Family Law in Côte d’lvoire 53
9. Chapter 2. Wives, Children, and Intestate Succession in Ghana 77
10. Chapter 3. Pleas for Domestic Relief: Akan Women and Family Courts 96
11. Part II. Economic Change, Political Economy, and Women's Lives
12. Chapter 4. Swazi Women Workers in Cottage Industries and Factories 127
13. Chapter 5. Alcohol and Politics in Urban Zambia: The Intersection of Gender and Class 142
14. Chapter 6. Women’s Roles in Settlement and Resettlement in Mali 159
15. Chapter 7. Ethiopian Rural Women and the State 182
16. Chapter 8. Women and Grassroots Politics in Abidjan, Côte d’lvoire 206
17. Chapter 9. Kenyan Women in Politics and Public Decision Making 232
18. Part III. Surviving Crisis in the Community
19. Chapter 10. “Our Women Keep Our Skies from Falling”: Women's Networks and Survival Imperatives in Tshunyane, South Africa 257
20. Chapter 11. Technology and the Fuel Crisis: Adjustment among Women in Northern Nigeria 276
21. Chapter 12. Swazi Traditional Healers, Role Transformation, and Gender 298
22. Chapter 13. AIDS, Gender, and Sexuality during Africa's Economic Crisis 310
23. Conclusions: Theorizing and Strategizing about African Women and State Crisis 333
24. Appendix 347
25. Contributors 349
26. Index 353