Literature Database on Gender in Subsahara Africa

Achebe, Nwando / Robertson, Claire (ed.) (2019): Holding the world together, African women in changing perspective, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison. [11592]

Arronson, Lisa (1984): Women in the arts, in: Hay, Jean Margaret / Stichter, S. (eds.): African women south of the Sahara, MacMillan, London, pp. 119-138. [1400]

Arronson, Lisa (1991): African women and the visual arts, in: Signs, Journal of Women in Culture and Society, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 550-574. [1401]

Arson, Lisa (1991): African women in the visual arts, in: Signs, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 19-43. [1402]

Bisschoff, Lizelle / van de Peer, Stefanie (2020): Women in African cinema, Beyond body politics, Routledge, London. [1403]

Dipio, Dominica (2019): Gender terrains in African cinema, African Books Collective, Oxford. [1404]

Ebron, Paulla (2007): Constructing subjects through performative acts, in: Cole, Catherine / Manuh, Takyiwaa / Miescher, Stephan (eds.): Africa after gender? Indiana Unviersity Press, Bloomington, pp. 171-190. [1405]

Ellerson, Beti (2000): Sisters of the screen, Women of Afric on film, video and television, Africa World Press, Trenton. [12329]

Ellerson, Beti (2018): African women of the screen as cultural producers, An overview by country, in: Black Camera, vol. 10, no 1, pp. 245-287. [11572]

Ellerson, Beti (2021): African women professionals in cinema, Manifestos, communiqués, declarations, statements, resolutions, in: Black Camera, vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 536-590. [11574]

Ellerson, Beti / Gbadamassi, Falila (2019): African women on the film festival landscape, Organizing, showcasing, promoting, networking, in: Black Camera, vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 424-456. [11573]

Foster, Gwendolyn Audrey (eds.) (1997): Women filmmakers of the African and Asian diaspora, Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale. [12365]

Green-Simms, Lindsey / Z´étoile Imma (2021): The possibilities and intimacies of Queer African screen cultures, in: Journal of African Cultural Studies Volume 33, pp. 1-19. [11760]

Hale, Thomas (2007): Griots and griottes, Indiana University Press, Bloomington. [1406]

Hale, Thomas et al. (eds.) (2013): Women’s songs in West Africa, Indiana University Press, Bloomington. [1407]

Harrow, Kenneth (ed.) (1997): With open eyes, Women and African cinema, Matatu, vol. 19, Rodipi Publishers, Amsterdam. [1409]

Hassan, Salah (ed.) (1997): Gendered visions, The art of contemporary African women artists, Africa World Press, New Jersey. [1410]

Herbert, Eugenia (1994): Iron, gender and power, Rituals of transformation in African societies, Indiana University Press, Bloomington. [1408]

Irobi, Esiaba (2007): Feminist aesthetics in Africn theatre of the colonial period, in: African Performance Review, vol. 1, pp. 56-74. [1411]

Jules-Rosette, Bennetta (1977): The potters and painters, Art by and about women in urban Africa, in: Studies in Anthropology and Visual Communication, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 112-127. [1412]

Migraine-George, Therese (2008): African women and representation, From Performance to Politics, Africa World Press, Trenton. [1413]

Mistry, Jyoti / Schumann, Antje (eds.) (2015): Gaze regimes, Film and feminisms in Africa, University of Witwatersrand Press, Johannesburg. [1414]

Mule, Katiwa (2007): Women’s spaces, women’s visions, Politics, poetics and resistance in African women’s drama, Africa World Press, Trenton. [1415]

Perani, Judith / Smith, Fred (1998): The visual arts of Africa: Gender, power, and life cycle rituals, Prentice Hall, Upper Saddle River. [1416]

Perkins, Kathy (ed.) (2009): African women playwrights, University of Illinois Press. [1417]

Rizzo, Lorena / Newbury, Darren / Thomas, Kylie (eds.) (2020): Women and Photography in Africa, Creative Practices and Feminist Challenges, Routledge, London. [11656]

Salmons, Jill (1977): Mamy Water, in: African Arts, vol. 3, pp. 8-15. [1418]

Scamina, Lida / Eicher, Joanne (eds.) (1998): Beads and beadmakers, Berg Publishers, Oxford. [1419]

Smith, Fred (1986): Male and female artistry in Africa, in: African Arts, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 28-29. [1420]

Smith, Fred (1986): Compound entry decoration, Male space and female creativity, in: African Arts, vol. 19, no. 3, pp. 52-58. [1421]

Uzoamaka Ada Azodo / Maureen Ngozi Eke (eds.) (2006): Gender and sexuality in African literature and film, Africa World Press, Trenton. [1422]

Veit-Wild, Flora (2005): Tsitsi Dangarembga’s film “Kare Kare Zvako”, The survival of the butchered women, Review, in: Research in African Literatures, vol. 36, no. 2, pp. 132-138. [11575]

White, Luise (1994): Anthologies about women in Africa, in: Canadian Journal of African Studies, vol. 28, no. 1, pp. 127-138. [1423]

Yacob-Haliso / Falola, Toyin (eds.) (2020): Palgrave Handbook of African women´s studies, Palgrave, London [12247]

Moorman, Marissa (2004): Dueling bands and good girls, Gender, music, and nation in Luanda,’s Musseques, 1961-1974, in: The International Journal of African Historical Studies, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 255-288. [1424]

Moorman, Marissa (2004): Putting on a pano and dancing like our grandparents: Nation and dress in late colonial Angola, in: Allman, Jean M. (ed.): Fashioning Africa: Power and the politics of dress, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, pp. 84-103. [1425]

Kaplan, Flora E.S. (1993): Iyoba, the Queen Mother of Benin: Images and ambiguity in gender and sex roles in Court Art, in: Art History, vol. 16, pp. 386-407. [1426]

Kaplan, Flora E.S. (1993): Images of the Queen Mother in Benin Court Art, in: African Arts, vol. 26, no. 3 pp. 54-63. [1427]

Kaplan, Flora E.S. (1997): In splendor and seclusion, Art and royal women at the court of Benin, Nigeria, Thames and Hudson, Lodon. [1428]

Scott, Joyce H. (1997): Daughters of Yennenga: ‘Le Mal de Peau’ and feminine voice in the literature of Burkina Faso, in: Women's Studies Quarterly, vol. 25, no.3-4, pp. 83-96. [1430]

Wildemann, Heike (2004): Hirsemahllieder – vergessene Tränenworte? Fragen zu einer weiblichen Gesangsform zwischen Leben und Ahnenwerdung, in: Dilger, Hansjörg / Wolf, Angelika / Frömming, Urte Undine / Volker-Saad, Kerstin (Hg.): Moderne und postkoloniale Transformation, Weißensee-Verlag, Berlin, pp. 54-79. [1431]

Argenti, Nicolas (2005): Dancing in the borderland, The forbidden masquerades of Oku youth and women, Cameroon, in: Honwana, Alicinda / De Boeck, Filip (eds.): Children and youth in postcolonial Africa, James Currey, Oxford, pp. 121-149. [1432]

Barley, Nigel (1997): Designing women Cameron, in: Kaplan, Flora E.S. (ed.): Queens, Queen Mothers, Priestesses, and power: Case studies in African gender. New York Academy of Sciences Publications, New York, pp. 371-380. [1433]

Biyong, Pauline (1998): Urban and community development, Text to accompany a video on women’s networking in urban Cameroon, in: Agyemang-Mensah, Nana (ed.): Maintaining the momentum of Beijing, The contribution of African gender NGOs, Ashgate Publishing, Aldershot, pp. 165-169. [1434]

Gosselain, Olivier (1992): Technology and style: Potters and pottery making among the Bafia of Cameroon, in: Man, vol. 27, no. 3 pp. 559-586. [1435]

LaDuke, Betty (1997): Earth magic: The pottery of Mali, Cameroon, and Togo, in: LaDuke, Betty: Africa: Women's art, Women's lives, Africa World Press, Trenton, pp. 41-62. [1436]

LaDuke, Betty (1997): Cameroon: Beads, Anlu, and Social Change, in: LaDuke, Betty: Africa: Women's art, Women's lives, Africa World Press, Trention, pp. 63-84. [1437]

Muller, Jean-Claude (2001): Inside, outside, and inside out: Masks, rulers and gender among the Dii and their neighbours, in: African Arts, vol. 34, pp. 58-71. [1438]

Röschenthaler, Ute (1993): Zur Komplementarität von Nacktheit und Maskierung bei den Ejagham im Südwesten Kameruns, Berlin. [1439]

Röschenthaler, Ute (1998): Der nackte und der dekorierte Körper, Performative Ausdrucksformen von Frauen im Cross-River Gebiet, Kamerun, in: Schröter, Susanne (ed.): Körper und Identität, Ethnologische Ansätze zur Konstruktion von Geschlecht, Lit-Verlag, Münster, pp. 11-35. [1440]

Röschenthaler, Ute (1998): Honoring Ejagham women, in: African Arts, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 38-49. [1441]

Samba, Emelda (2005): Women in theatre for development in Cameroon: Participation, contributions and limitations, African Studies, 74, Bayreuth. [1442]

Gondola, Didier (1997): Popular music, urban society, and changing gender relations in Kinshasa, Zaire (1950-1990), in: Grosz-Ngate, Maria and Kokole, Omari H. (eds.): Gendered Encounters: Challenging cultural boundaries and social hierarchies in Africa, Routledge, London, pp. 65-84. [1443]

Matumba-Ngoma, Mabala (1989): Frauen, Kunsthandwerk und Kultur bei den Yombe, Edition Re, Göttingen. [1444]

Remer, Abby (2001): The power of cloth: Kuba Kasai textiles, rank, and prestige, in: Remer, Abby: Enduring visions: Women's artistic heritage around the world. Davis Publications, Worcester. [1445]

Schildkrout, Enid (1999): Gender and sexuality in Mangbetu art, in: Phillips, Ruth / Steiner, Christopher (eds.): Unpacking culture: Art and commodity in colonial and postcolonial worlds, University of California Press, Berkeley. [1446]

Kimberlin Tse, Cynthia (2000): Women, music, and ‘chains of the mind’: Eritrea and the Tigray region of Ethiopia, 1972-93, in: Moisala, Pirkko / Diamond, Beverley (eds.): Music and gender, University of Illinois Press, Urbana. [1447]

LaDuke, Betty (1997): Eritrea: Artisits/fighters with new visions, in: LaDuke, Betty. Africa: Women's art, Women lives, Africa World Press, Trenton, pp. 147-187. [1448]

Matzke, Christine (2002): Of Suwa and singing contests, Eerly urban women performers in Asmara, Eritrea, in: Banham, Martin / Gibbs, James / Osofisan, Femi (eds.): African theatre, Women, James Currey, London, pp. 29-46. [1449]

Matzke, Christine (2002): Comrades in arts and arms, Stories of war and watercolours from Eritrea, in: Matatu, no. 25-26, pp. 21-54. [1450]

Matzke, Christine (2003): Engendering theatre in Eritrea: The roles and representations of women in the performing arts, Bruchhaus, Eva-Marie (ed.): Hot spot Horn of Africa, Between integration and disintegration, Lit-Verlag, Münster/Berlin. [1451]

Bassi, Marco (1999): Every woman an artist: The milk containers of Elema Boru, in: Silverman, Raymond A. (ed.): Ethiopia: Traditions of creativity, Michigan State University Museum/University of Washington Press, Seattle, pp. 64-87. [1452]

Biasio, Elizabeth (1994): The burden of women: Women artists in Ethiopia, in: Marcus, Harold G. (ed.): New trends in Ethiopian Studies: Papers from the 12th International Conference of Ethiopian Studies, Red Sea Press. Trenton, pp. 304-334. [1453]

Kassam, Aneesa / Megersa, Gemetchu (1989): Iron and beads: Male and female symbols of creation, A study of ornament among Booran Oromo, in: Hodder, Ian (ed.): The meaning of things: Material culture and symbolic expression, Unwin Hyman, London. [1454]

Kimberlin, Cynthia T. (2000): Women, music, and `Chains of the Mind': Eritrea and the Tigray region of Ethiopia, 1972-93, in: Moisala, Pirkko / Diamond, Beverley (eds.): Music and gender, University of Illinois Press, Urbana. [1455]

Adjei, Godwin (2007): Reducing the male monopoly of state drumming in Ghana, The Axim experience, in: Research Review, vol. 23, no.2, pp. 71-79. [1456]

Anyidoho, Akosua (1994): Tradition and innovation in Nnwonkoro: An Akan female verbal genre, in: Research in African Literatures, vol. 25, pp. 141-159. [1457]

Asante-Darko, N. / Sjaak van der Geest (1983): Male chauvinism: Men and women in Ghanaian highlife songs, in: Oppong, Ch. (ed.): Female and male in West Africa, Routlege Publications, London, pp. 242-255. [1458]

Burns, James M. (2009): Female voices from an Ewe dance-drumming community in Ghana, Our music has become a divine spirit, Ashgate Publishing, London. [1459]

Cole, Catherine (2007): “Give her a slap to warm her up”, Post-gender theory and Ghana’s popular culture, in: Cole, Catherine / Manuh, Takyiwaa / Miescher, Stephan (eds.): Africa after gender? Indiana Unviersity Press, Bloomington, pp. 270-284. [1460]

Collins, John (2003): Ghanaian women enter into popular entertainment, in: Humanities, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 1-10. [1461]

Dankwa Owusua, Serena (2009): Juggling Femininties: Mzbel and Ghana’s Gendered Popular Music, in: Ineichen, Martina, Anna K. Liesch, Anja Rathmann-Lutz und Simon Wenger (eds.): Gender in Trans- it: Transkulturelle und transnationale Perspektiven, Chronos Verlag, Zürich, pp. 147 – 57. [11610]

Dogbe, Esi (2002): Visibility, eloquence and silence, Women and theatre for development in Ghana, in: Banham, Martin / Gibbs, James / Osofisan, Femi (eds.): African theatre, Women, James Currey, London, pp. 83-98. [1462]

Lawrence, Sidra (2011): Sounds of development? Race, authenticity, and tradition among Dagara female musicians in Northwestern Ghana, in: African Music Journal, vol. 9, no. 1, pp. 206-220. [1463]

Stuffelbeam, Katherine (2012): Performing advocacy, Women’s music and dance in Dagbon, Northern Ghana, in: African Music Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 154-169. [1464]

Adams, Monni (Marie-Jeanne) (1986): Women and masks among the Western We of Ivory Coast, in: African Arts, vol. 19, pp. 46-55 [1465]

Adams, Monni (Marie-Jeanne) (1993): Women's art as gender strategy among the We of Canton Boo, in: African Arts, vol. 26, pp. 32-43. [1466]

Glaze, Anita (1986): Dialectics of gender in Senufo Masquerades, in: African Arts, vol. 19, pp. 30-39. [1467]

Delgado Fraser, Celeste (1997): MotherTongues and childness women, The construction of "Kenyan" womenhood, in: Nnamaeka, Obioma (ed.): The politics of (m)othering, Womenhood, identity, and resistance in African literature, Routledge, London. [11966]

Frederikson, Bodil Folke (1994): Gender, ethnicity and popular culture in Kenya, in: European Journal of Development Research, 6, 2, pp. 52-62. [1468]

Frederikson, Bodil Folke (2000): Popular culture, gender relations and the democracy of everyday life in Kenya, in: Journal of Southern African Studies, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 209-222. [1469]

Johnstone, Lyn (2021): Queer worldmaking in Wanuri Kahiu’s Film Rafiki, in: Journal of African Cultural Studies, vol. 33, issue 1, pp.39-50. [11813]

Kapteijins, Lidwien (1999): Women`s voices in a men`s world, Women and the pastrol traditions in Northern Somali Orature, 1899-1980, Heinemann, London. [1474]

Ndati, Ndeti (2012): HIV and AIDS, Communication and secondary education in Kenya, Nairobi. [1470]

Ntarangwi, Mwenda (2003): Gender, identity and performance, Understanding Swahili cultural realities through song, Africa World Press, Trenton. [1471]

Opondo, Patricia Achieng (2002): Strategies for survival by Luo female artists in the rural environment in Kenya, in: Higgs, Catherine / Moss, Barbara / Ferguson, Earline (eds.): Stepping forward, Black women in Africa and the Americas, Ohio University Press, Athens, pp. 205-226. [1472]

Prince, R.J. (2005): Popular music and Luo youth in western Kenya, Ambiguities of modernity, moral and gender relations in the era of AIDS, in: Christiansen, C. / Vigh, H. (eds.): Children and youth in contemporary Africa, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala. [1473]

Thiong’o, Ngugi wa (1982): Women in cultural work: The fate of Kamiriithu people’s theatre in Kenya, in: Development Dialogue, 1-2, pp. 115-133. [1475]

Green-Simms, Lindsey / Z´étoile, Imma (2021): The possibilities and intimacies of Queer African screen cultures, in: Journal of African Cultural Studies Volume 33, pp. 1-19. [11762]

Van Wyk, Gary (1998): The mural art of Basotho women, in: African Arts, vol. 31, pp. 58-65. [1478]

Adams, Monni (Marie-Jeanne) (1993): Women's art as gender strategy among the We of Canton Boo, in: African Arts, vol. 26, pp. 32-43. [1476]

Siegmann, William (2000): Women's hair and Sowei masks in Southern Sierra Leone and Western Liberia, in: Sieber, Roy / Herreman, Frank (eds.): Hair in African art and culture, Museum of African Art. New York. [1477]

Gilman, Lisa (2001): Purchasing praise: Women, dancing, and patronage in Malawi party politics, in: Africa Today, vol. 48, no. 4, pp. 43-64. [1479]

Gilman, Lisa (2004): The traditionalization of women's dancing: Hegemony and politics in Malawi, in: Journal of Folklore Research, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 33-60. [1480]

Lwanda, John (2003): Mother's songs: Male appropriation of women's music in Malawi and Southern Africa, in: Journal of African Cultural Studies, vol. 16, pp. 119-141. [1481]

Mkamanga, Emily (2000): Suffering in silence, Malawi women’s thirty year dance with Dr. Banda, Dudu Nsomba Publications, Blantire. [1483]

Mvula, Enoch (1986): Chewa women's songs: A verbal strategy in Manipulating social tensions, in: Women's Studies International Forum, vol. 9, no. 3, pp. 265-272. [1482]

Brett-Smith, Sarah (1994): The making of Bamana sculpture, Creativity and gender, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [1484]

Diawara, Mamadou (1990): ‘Dienerinnen’ und die Weitergabe mündlicher Überlieferungen im Königreich Jaara (Mali), in: Jones, Adam (ed.): Außereuropäische Frauengeschichte, Centaurus Verlag, Pfaffenweiler, pp. 159-174. [1485]

Duran, Lucy (1995): Jelimusow: The superwomen of Malian music, in: Furniss, Graham / Gunner, Liz (eds.): Power, Marginality and African Oral Literature, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge. [1486]

Duran, Lucy (2003): Women, music, and the ‘mystique’ of hunters in Mali, in: Monson, Ingrid T. (ed.): The African diaspora: A musical perspective. Routledge, London. [1487]

Frank, Barbara (1994): More than wives and mothers: The artistry of Mande potters, in: African Arts,vol. 27, pp. 26-37. [1488]

Frank, Barbara (2002): Thoughts on who made the Jenne terra-cottas: Gender, craft specialization, and Mande art history, in: Mande Studies, vol. 4, pp. 121-132. [1489]

Imperato, Pascal (1994): The depiction of beautiful women in Malian youth association masquerades, in: African Arts, vol. 27, pp. 58-65. [1490]

La Violette, Adria (1995): Women craft specialists in Jenne: The manipulation of Mande social categories, in: Conrad, David C. / Frank, Barbara E. (eds.): Status and identity in West Africa: Nyamakalaw of Mande, Indiana University Press, Bloomington, pp. 170-181. [1493]

LaDuke, Betty (1991): Pama Sinatoa: Malian mud-cloth paintings, in: LaDuke, Betty (ed.): Africa through the eyes of women artists, Africa World Press, Trenton, pp. 55-64. [1491]

LaDuke, Betty (1997): Earth magic: The pottery of Mali, Cameroon, and Togo, in: LaDuke, Betty (ed.): Africa: Women's art, Women's lives, Africa World Press, Trenton, pp. 41-62. [1492]

Okagbue, Osita (2007): Through other eyes and voices: women in 'Koteba' and 'Mmonwu' performances, in: African Performance Review, vol. 1, no. 2/3, pp.114-129 [1494]

Schulz, Dorothea (1999): Territorial displacement and moral relocation, Voices and images of women in televised ladili performances in Mali, Sozialanthropologische Arbeitspapiere, Nr. 80, FU-Berlin, Berlin. [1496]

Schulz, Dorothea (2002): The world is made by talk: Female youth culture, pop music consumption, and mass-mediated forms of sociality in urban Mali, in: Cahiers d'Etudes Africaines, vol. 42, no. 4 (168). [1497]

Short, Julianne (2000): ‘Have you heard the words of our elders?’ Senior Bamana women's Sidikou, in: Aissata G. (ed.): Recreating words, reshaping worlds: The verbal art of women in Niger, Mali and Senegal, in: Africa World Press, Trenton. [1495]

Short, Julianne (2000): ‘Have you heard the words of our elders?’ Senior Bamana women's Sidikou, in: Aissata G. (ed.): Recreating words, reshaping worlds: The verbal art of women in Niger, Mali and Senegal, in: Africa World Press, Trenton, [1498]

Sidikou, Aissata (2001): Recreating worlds, reshaping worlds, The verbal art of women from Niger, Mali and Senegal, Africa World Press, Trenton. [1499]

Van Dyke, Kristina (2002): Gender objectified: Revealing bodies in Bamana sculpture, in: Mande Studies, vol. 4, pp. 101-119. [1500]

Zobel, Clemens (2002): Clients or critics? Politics, griots and gender in postcolonial Mali, in: Mande Studies, vol. 4, pp. 45-64. [1501]

Cooper, Barbara (2001): The strength in the song, Muslim personhood, audible capital, and Hausa women’s performance of the Hajj, in: Hodgson, Dorothy (ed.): Gendered modernities, Ethnographic perspectives, Palgrave Publications, New York, pp. 79-104. [1502]

Rasmussen, Susan (1997): Politics and poetics of Tuareg aging, Life course and personal dignity in Niger, Northern Illinois Press, De Kelb. [1503]

Rasmussen, Susan (2003): Gendered discourses and mediated modernities, Urban and rural performances of Tuareg smith women, in: Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 59, pp. 487-509. [1504]

Azuonye, Chukwuma (1997): Power, marginality and womenbeing in Igbo oral narratives, in: Granquistraou, L. / Inyama, Nnadozie (eds.): Power and powerlessness of women in West African orality, Umea, pp. 1-31. [1505]

Barber, Karin (1990): Oríkì, women and the proliferation and merging of the oriisa, in: Africa, 60, 3, pp. 313-337. [1506]

Barber, Karin (1991): I could speak until tomorrow: Oriki, women and the past in a Yoruba town, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. [1507]

Barber, Karin (1994): Polyvocality and the individual talent, Three women Oriki Singers, in: Abiodun, Rowland / Drewal, Henry J. / Pemberton, John (eds.): The Yoruba artist, New theoretical perspectives on African art, Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, pp. 151-160. [1508]

Beik, Janet (1987): Women’s roles in contemporary Hausa theatre of Niger, in: Coles, Catherine / Mack, Beverly (eds.): Hausa women in the twentieth century, University of Wisconsin Press, Madison, pp. 232-244. [1509]

Bivins, Mary (1997): Daura and gender in the creation of a Hausa national epic, in: African Languages and Cultures, vol. 10, no. 1, pp. 1-28. [1510]

Boyd, Jean / Mack, Beverly (1996): Women's Islamic literature in Northern Nigeria, 150 years of tradition, in: Harrow, Kenneth W. (ed.): The marabout and the muse: New aspects of Islam in African literature, Heinemann, Portsmouth. [1511]

Boyd, Jean / Mack, Beverly (1997): Collected works of Nana Asmaù, Daughter of Usman dan Fodio (1793-1864), University of Michigan Press, East Lansing. [1512]

Cooper, Barbara (2001): The strength in the song, Muslim personhood, audible capital, and Hausa women’s performance of the Hajj, in: Hodgson, Dorothy (ed.): Gendered modernities, Ethnographic perspectives, Palgrave Publications, New York, pp. 79-104. [1513]

Drewal, Henry (1968): Art and the perception of women in Yoruba culture, in: Cahiers d’Etudes Africaines, vol. 17, no. 4, pp. 545-567. [1514]

Drewal, Henry (1988): Mermaids, mirrors and snake charmers, Igbo Mammi Water shrines, in: African Arts, vol. XXI, no. 2, pp. 38-45. [1515]

Drewal, Henry (1988): Performing the other, Mammy Water worship in West Africa, in: Drama Review, 118, pp. 160-185. [1516]

Drewal, Henry John / Drewal, Margaret Thompson (1983): Gelede, Art and female power among the Yoruba, Indiana University Press, Bloomington. [1517]

Dunton, Chris (2002): Contemporary Nigerian theatre, The plays of Stella Oyedepo, in: Banham, Martin / Gibbs, James / Osofisan, Femi (eds.): African theatre, Women, James Currey, London, pp. 99-108. [1518]

Gillow, John (2003): Nigerian woman's vertical looms, in: Gillow, John. African textiles: Colour and creativity across a continent, Thames and Hudson, London, pp. 56-59. [1519]

Kalu, Anthonia (1999): Women and development in West Africa: Traditional views in contemporary literature, in: James, Valentine / Etim, James S. (eds.): The feminization of development processees in Africa: Current and future perspectives Praeger Publishers, Westport, pp. 199-214. [1524]

Kaplan, Flora Edouwaye (1993): Iyoba, the Queen Mother of Benin: Images and ambiguity in gender and sex roles in Court Art, in: Art History, vol. 16, pp. 386-407. [1520]

Kaplan, Flora Edouwaye (1993): Images of the Queen Mother in Benin Court Art, in: African Arts, vol. 26, no. 3 pp. 54-63. [1521]

Kaplan, Flora Edouwaye (1997): In splendor and seclusion, Art and royal women at the court of Benin, Nigeria, Thames and Hudson, Lodon. [1522]

Kaplan, Flora Edouwaye (1997): Iyoba, The Queen Mother of Benin, Images and ambiguity in gender and sex roles in court art, in: Kaplan, Flora Edouwaye (ed.): Queens, Queen Mothers, Priestresses, and power, Case studies in African gender, Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, New York, pp. 73-102. [1523]

Kassam, Margaret Hauwa (1996): Some aspects of women’s voices from Northern Nigeria, in: African Languages and Cultures, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 111-125. [1525]

LaDuke, Betty (1991): Nike Davies: Nigerian batik artist, in: LaDuke, Betty: Africa through the eyes of women artists, Africa World Press, Trenton, pp. 33-40 [1526]

LaDuke, Betty (1991): Princess Elizabeth Olowu: Nigerian sculptor, in: LaDuke, Betty: Africa through the eyes of women artists, Africa World Press, Trenton, pp. 21-32. [1527]

Lawal, Babatunde (1996): The Gelede spectacle, Art, gender and social harmony in an African culture, University of Washington Press, Seattle. [1528]

Lawuyi, Olatunde / Olupuna, Jacob (1987): Making sense of the Aje festival, Wealth politics and the status of women among the Ondo of Southwestern Nigeria, in: Journal of Ritual Studies, vol. 1, pp. 97-102. [1529]

Layiwola, A. (1997): Gender tempered through metal: Women in metal-casting in Benin City, Nigeria, in: Newell, Stephanie (ed.): Writing African women, Gender, popular culture and literature in West Africa, Zed Books, London, pp. 191-197. [1530]

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