Negotiation and social space : a gendered analysis of changing kin and security networks in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa

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Introduction - Kamala Ganesh and Carla Risseeuw Gendered Change in Marriage and Family: A Policy Concern PART ONE: OVERVIEWS Changing Kinship, Family and Gender Relations in Sub-Saharan Africa - Els A Baerends Trends in Kinship and Gender Relations in South Asia - Leela Dube Gender and Kinship Studies - Kamala Ganesh Indian Material and Context PART TWO: LAW: REFORM AND RIGIDITY Civil Law vs the Mand[ac]e Conception of Gendered Personhood - Saskia M A A Brand The Case of Bamako, Mali PART THREE: EDUCATION: CONTINGENT ACCESS TO NEW WORLDS Family Strategies, Gender Ideology and Education - Karuna Charana The Impact of Partition on Punjabi Women of New Delhi Production and Reproduction of Girlhood in High Schools - Kathinka Kerkhoff The State, Family and Schooling in Colonial Calcutta PART FOUR: WOMEN TRADERS: FREE TO NEGOTIATE OR FORCED TO ADJUST? Female Entrepreneurship in a Changing Environment - Philip J Havik Gender, Kinship and Trade in the Guinea Bissau Region Structural Adjustment and the Cameroonian Women's Life Line - Joyce B Endeley 1986-1995 PART FIVE: LABOUR AND THE JOB MARKET: NEGOTIATING PUBLIC SPACE Disjunctions and Continuities - Santi Rozario Dowry and the Position of Single Women in Bangladesh Absent Women and Their Extended Families - Michele Ruth Gamburd Sri Lanka's Migrant Housemaids PART SIX: NEGOTIATING BETWEEN KITH AND KIN One from the Heart - Karen Willemse with Nawal H Osman and Catrien Bijleveld Between Family and Friends in Al-Halla, West Sudan Islamisation and Changes in Social Arrangements among the Mafa of North Cameroon - Jos[ac]e C M van Santen

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