Women and Work in Northern Nigeria: Transcending Boundaries (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780333984567)

Women and Work in Northern Nigeria is a study of the social and economic opportunities open to and seized upon by Muslim Hausa women, primarily in the city of Katsina, Nigeria, over the course of the past three decades. In the context of multiple political regimes, the turmoil of the Nigerian economy, and major ideological shifts, women have sought to optimize their resources and situations. Women and Work in Northern Nigeria take as a primary theme, women's ability to recognize and to cross the physical, spatial and discursive boundaries which ostensibly service to define and confine them

Author: R. Pittin
ISBN-10: 0333984560
ISBN-13: 9780333984567
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 11/15/2002
Pages: 479
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.55lbs
Size: 8.74h x 5.84w x 1.15d