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SUMMARY:Kathleen Sheldon - "African Women: Early History to the 21st Century"
DESCRIPTION:African Women: Early History to the 21st Century \nKathleen Sheldon \nUCLA Center for the Study of Women \n \nThursday\, October 19\, 2017 \n4:00 – 6:00 PM \n6275 Bunche Hall \n Free and open to the public \nCopies of Dr. Sheldon’s book will be available for purchase immediately following her talk. \nKathleen Sheldon is an independent historian who is a Research Affiliate with the UCLA Center for the Study of Women.  Dr. Sheldon received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 1988 and her M.A. in African Area Studies in 1977.  She is a historian who has primarily written about African women and Mozambique.  Her most recent book is African Women: Early History to the 21st Century.  She also wrote Pounders of Grain: A History of Women\, Work\, and Politics in Mozambique and edited Courtyards\, Markets\, City Streets: Urban Women in Africa. \nOther publications include the second revised edition of the Historical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa (2016; first edition\, 2005) and a special two-part forum on Women and Gender in Africa for the African Studies Review\, co-edited with Judith Van Allen\, that appeared in December 2015 and April 2016. \nDr. Sheldon was the editor for women’s entries for the Dictionary of African Biography (2011).  She wrote the articles on Women and African History and Women and Colonialism for Oxford Bibliographies in African Studies\, and is also a senior editor for the online resource\, Oxford Research Encyclopedia in African History. \nOther publications include “From Frenzied Mobs to Savvy Businesswomen: Researching the History of Market Women in Africa\,” in Changing Horizons of African History (2017); and “Creating an Archive of Working Women’s Oral Histories in Beira\, Mozambique” in Contesting Archives: Finding Women in the Sources (2010). \nShe is an editor on the H-Luso-Africa network\, https://networks.h-net.org/h-luso-africa\, which focuses on the Portuguese-speaking countries of Africa. \nIn addition to her work on African women she published “‘No more cookies or cake now\, “C’est la guerre”’: An American Nurse in Turkey\, 1919 to 1920\,” Social Sciences and Missions 23\, 1 (2010)\, based on a diary kept by her great-aunt\, Sylvia Thankful Eddy. \nPUBLICATIONS \nAfrican Women: Early History to the 21st Century (Bloomington: Indiana University Press\, 2017). \nHistorical Dictionary of Women in Sub-Saharan Africa\, 2nd ed. (Lanham\, MD: Rowman and Littlefield\, 2016). \nPounders of Grain: A History of Women\, Work\, and Politics in Mozambique (Portsmouth\, NH: Heinemann\, 2002). \nEditor\, Courtyards\, Markets\, City Streets: Urban Women in Africa (Boulder\, CO: Westview Press\, 1996). \n  \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the UCLA African Studies Center\, the UCLA Department of History\, \nthe UCLA Center for the Study of Women\, and the UCLA Department of Gender Studies. \n__________________________ \nPay-by-space and all-day ($12) parking available in lot 3 \nCampus map\, directions\, transportation options to UCLA at www.ucla.edu/map \nWe hope to see you at this event! \nFor questions/more information\, contact: \nUCLA African Studies Center | 10244 Bunche Hall | Los Angeles\, CA 90095-1310 | Telephone: 310-825-3686 \nWebsite: http://www.international.ucla.edu/africa | email: africa@international.ucla.ed
URL:https://history.ucla.edu/event/kathleen-sheldon-african-women-early-history-to-the-21st-century/
LOCATION:6275 Bunche Hall
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