The Oxford Encyclopedia of African Women's History

Dorothy Hodgson is Professor of Anthropology Emerita at Brandeis University. She is an award-winning scholar, teacher and mentor who has conducted anthropological and historical research in Tanzania for almost 40 years on such topics as gender justice, cultural politics, colonialism, and the indigenous rights movement. She has authored or edited ten books and numerous articles and book chapters, with the support of awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, American Council of Learned Societies, National Sciences Foundation, Social Science Research Council, and Fulbright-Hays, among other sources. Hodgson has served as president of the US African Studies Association and of the Association for Feminist Anthropology.Associate EditorsAlicia DeckerPennsylvania State UniversityAbosede GeorgeBarnard CollegeFatima SadiqiThe Wilson CenterPamela ScullyEmory UniversityKathleen SheldonUniversity of California, Los Angeles

• African Feminist Thought Women in African Philosophy African Women in Art Aidoo, Ama Ata Al-Durr, Shajarat Women in Algeria al-Nafzaouiya, Zaynab The Amazons of Dahomey Women in Angola Women and Apartheid Asante Queen Mothers in Ghana Asantewa, Nana Yaa Asma'u, Nana Women in Associations and Organizations in Africa Baartman, Sara Ba, Mariama Women in Beauty Cultures and Aesthetic Rituals in Africa Women in Benin Ben M'rad, Bchira Women in Botswana Women in Burkina Faso Women in Burundi Women in Cameroon Women in Cape Verde Casely-Hayford, Adelaide and Gladys Women in Central African History Women in the Central African Republic Women in Chad African Women in Colonial Settler Towns in East and Southern Africa Women in Comoros Women in Congo-Brazzaville (Republic of the Congo) Women in Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Women in the Democratic Republic of the Congo de Sousa, Noémia Women and Development in Africa Women in Djibouti Women, Gender, and Sexuality in East Africa Women in Modern Egypt Ekpo, Margaret Emecheta, Buchi Women in Equatorial Guinea Women in Eritrea Women in Ethiopia Women in Fashion and Textiles in Africa African Women in Film, the Moving Image, and Screen Culture Women in Gabon Women in the Gambia Women and Genocide in Africa Women in Ghana Girlhood in Africa Women in Global African Diasporas Women in Guinea-Bissau Women in Guinea Head, Bessie Women and Islam in Africa Women in Kenya Lakwena, Alice Women in Law and Justice in Africa Women's Legal Rights in Africa Women in Lesotho Women in Liberia Women in Libya Women's Literature in African History Maathai, Wangari Muta Women in Madagascar Makeba, Miriam Women in Malawi Women in Mali African Market Women, Market Queens, and Merchant Queens Marriage across Africa Woman-to-Woman Marriage in West Africa Women in Mauritania Women in Mauritius Mernissi, Fatima Women and Migration in Africa Women and Militarization in Africa Mohamed, Bibi Titi Women in Morocco Motherhood and Maternalism in Africa Women in Mozambique African Women in Music, Theater, and Performance Namaganda, Lady Irene Women in Namibia Women in Nationalist Movements in Africa Nehanda Ngoyi, Lilian Women in Niger Women in Nigeria Women in Muslim Northern Nigeria Njinga a Mbande Women in Northern African History Women and Gender in French North Africa, 1830-1962 Ogot, Grace Women and Pan-Africanism Pereira, Carmen Women and Politics in Africa Women and Post-Independence African Politics Women in Postcolonial Africa Women in Post-Conflict Resolution and Reconstruction in Africa Women in Precolonial Africa Women, Race, and Ethnicity in Africa Ransome-Kuti, Funmilayo Women and the History of Religion in Africa Reproductive Health, Fertility Control, and Childbirth in Africa Rodrigues, Deolinda Women in Rwanda Women in São Tomé and Príncipe Women in Senegal Sex Work/Prostitution in Africa Women in Seychelles Women in Sierra Leone Women and Slavery in Africa Women's Emancipation from Slavery in Africa in the 19th and 20th Centuries Women in Somalia Women in South Africa Women in Southern African History Women in South Sudan Women in Tanzania (Tanganyika and Zanzibar) Women in Togo Women in Tunisia Women in Uganda Uwilingiyimana, Agathe Women and Violence in Africa Women in West African History The Women's War of 1929 Women in Zambia Women in Zimbabwe