African Women: A Modern History.(Review) From: The Historian | Date: March 22, 1999| Author: Robertson, Claire | COPYRIGHT 1999 Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

African Women: A Modern History. By Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch. Translated by Beth Gillian Raps. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1997. Pp. xviii, 308. $24.95.)

This survey is a recent entry in the small field of textbooks about African women. Like other volumes, this one has a primary focus on the twentieth century. In part one, this survey devotes some of its space to a brief consideration of the situation of precolonial African women. Catherine Coquery-Vidrovitch continues...

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