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Women's History

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Badran, Margot. Feminists, Islam, and Nation: Gender and the Making of Modern Egypt. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1995.

Berger, Iris, and E. Frances White. Women in Sub-Saharan Africa: Restoring Women to History. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999.

Bradford, Helen. "Women, Gender, and Colonialism: Rethinking the History of the British Cape Colony and its Frontier Zones, c. 1806–70." Journal of African History 37 (1996): 351–370.

Charrad, Mounira M. States and Women's Rights: The Making of Postcolonial Tunisia, Algeria, and Morocco. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001.

Daymond, M. J., et al. Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region. New York: Feminist Press, 2003.

Hodgson, Dorothy L., and Sheryl A. McCurdy, eds. "Wicked" Women and the Reconfiguration of Gender in Africa. Portsmouth, N.H.: Heinemann, 2001.

Tripp, Aili Mari, ed. Sub-Saharan Africa. Vol. 6 of The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide, edited by Lynn Walter. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 2003.

Zeleza, Tiyambe. "Gender Biases in African Historiography." In Engendering African Social Sciences, edited by Ayesha M. Imam, Amina Mama, and Fatou Sow, 81–116. Dakar, Senegal: CODESRIA Book Series, 1997.

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