Marriage in Maradi: Gender and Culture in a Hausa Society in Niger, 1900-1989

Review
...Cooper manages this entire intellectual journey with clear and exact prose. Upper division undergraduates and above.Choice

Book Description
Paper Edition. Women's contradictory contributions to social and economic change in the twentieth century can be seen in their improvisations upon the seemingly fixed "traditions" surrounding marriage in Maradi.

About the Author
BARBARA COOPER studied African history, anthropology, and Hausa language at the African Studies Center of Boston University, where she received her Ph.D. in 1992. Her articles on Maradis history have appeared in Journal of African History, African Economic History, and Signs. She has taught at the University of Florida and Bryn Mawr College and is now an assistant professor at New York Universitys Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Her current research focuses upon Muslim womens negotiation of space and upon the history of a Protestant minority community in Maradi.


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Paper Edition. Women's contradictory contributions to social and economic change in the twentieth century can be seen in their improvisations upon the seemingly fixed "traditions" surrounding marriage in Maradi.


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