Literature Database on Gender in Subsahara Africa

Allison, Caroline (1985): Health and education for development: African women’s status and prospects, in: Rose, Tore (ed.): Crisis and recovery in Sub-Sahran Africa, Paris, pp. 111-123. [5000]

Falola, Toyin / Heaton, Matthew (eds.) (2007): Endangered bodies, Women, children and health in Africa, Africa World Press, Trenton. [5001]

Kalipeni, Ezkiel / Thiuri, Philip (eds.) (1997): Issues and perspectives on health care in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston. [5002]

Karim, Abdool Quarraisa / Froehlich, Janet (eds.) (2000): African women’s health, Africa World Press, Trenton. [5003]

Raikes, A. (1989): Women`s health in East Africa, in: Social Science and Medicine, vol. 28, pp. 447-459. [5004]

Shelley, Karen (1997): Impacts on health status of African women and children, 1978-1994, in: Kalipeni, Ezekiel / Thiuri, Philip (eds.): Issues and perspectives on health care in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, pp. 179-193. [5005]

Stein, Howard / Fadlalla, Amal Hassan (eds.) (2012): Gendered insecurities, Health and development in Africa, Routledge, London. [5006]

Trasi, Reshma (2008): Leadership for women’s health in Africa, The parlamentarians for women’s health project, in: Gender and Development, vol. 16, no. 3, pp. 495-508. [5007]

Turshen, Meredeth (ed.) (1991): Women and health in Africa, Africa World, Trenton. [5008]

Yacob-Haliso / Falola, Toyin (eds.) (2020): Palgrave Handbook of African women´s studies, Palgrave, London [12253]

Carvalho, A. and Laudari, C. and Marini, M. and Faundes, A. (1996): Characteristics of contraceptive acceptors in Luanda, Angola, in: African Journal of Fertility, Sexuality and Reproductive Health, vol. 1, pp. 109-114. [5009]

Odberg Pettersson, Karen and Christensson et al. (2004): Adaptation of health care seeking behavior during childbirth: Focus group discussions with women living in the suburban areas of Luanda, Angola, in: Health Care for Women International, vol. 25, pp. 255-280. [5010]

Schaider, J. / Ngonyani, S. / Tomlin, S. / Rydman, R. / Roberts, R. (1999): International maternal mortality reduction: Outcome of traditional birth attendant education and intervention in Angola, in: Journal of Medical Systems, vol. 23, pp. 99-105. [5011]

Hounsa, Assomption Maghougbe / Godin, Gaston et al. (1993): An application of Ajzen’s theory of planned behaviour to predict mother’s intnetion to use oral rehydration therapy in a rural area of Benin, in: Social Science and Medicine, vol. 37, no. 2, pp. 253-261. [5012]

Sargent, Carolyn (1986): Prospects for the professionalisation of indigenous midwifery in Benin, in: Last, Murray / Chavunduka, G.L. (eds.): The professionalisation of African Medicine, Mancester University Press, Manchester, pp. 137-149. [5013]

Sargent, Carolyn (1989): Women's roles and women healers in contemporary rural and urban Benin, In: McClain, Carol S. (ed.): Women as healers: Cross-cultural perspectives, Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick, pp. 204-218. [5014]

Dong, H. / Kouyate, B. et al. (2003): Gender's effect on willingness-to-pay for community-based insurance in Burkina Faso, in: Health Policy, vol. 64, pp. 153-162. [5015]

Sauerborn, Rainer / Berman, P. / Nougtara, A. (1996): Age bias, but no gender bias in the intra-household resource allocation for health care in rural Burkina Faso, in: Health Transition Review, vol. 6, no. 2, pp. 131-146. [5016]

Wollast, E. (2001): Detecting maternal morbidity and mortality by traditional birth attendants in Burkina Faso, in: Health Policy and Planning, vol. 8, pp. 161-168 [5017]

Defo, B.K. (1997): Effects of socio-economic disadvantage and women’s status on women’s health in Cameroon, in: Social Science and Medicine, vol. 40, pp. 1023-1042. [5018]

Kosack, Godula (2000): Wie gehen die Mafa-Frauen (Nordkamerun) mit Krankheit um? in: Curare, 23, 1, pp. 25-40. [5019]

Kornfield, Ruth (1985): I'm sick... I'm coming, Illness among Zairian elite women, WID Working Papers, no. 101, Michigan State University, East Lansing. [5020]

Almedon, Astier / Tesfamicheael, Berhe et al. (2003): Maternal psychological well-being in Eritrea, in: Bulletin of World Health Organization, vol. 81, no. 5, pp. 360-366. [5021]

Burgess, Doris (1991): Women and health in Eritrea, in: Wallace, Tina / March, Candida (eds.): Changing perceptions, Writings on gender and development, Oxfam Publications, Oxford, pp. 210-209. [5022]

Mebrahtu, Saba (2000): What we need is timely assistance: Heavy workloads and safe motherhood in Eritrea, in: Turshen, Meredeth (ed.): African women's health, Africa World Press, Trenton. [5023]

Berhane, Yemane / Gossaye, Y. et al. (2001): Women's health in a rural setting in societal transition in Ethiopia, in: Social Science and Medicine, vol. 53, pp. 1525-1539. [5024]

Dugassa, B.F. (2005): Women's rights and health: The case of Oromo women in Ethiopia, in: Health Care for Women International, vol. 26, pp. 149-169. [5025]

Barrett, Hazel / Browne, Angela (1992): Beri-Beri: Age-gender bias in the Gambia, in: Social Science and Medicine, vol. 34, pp. 1295-1297. [5026]

Barrett, Hazel / Browne, Angela (1996): Health, hygiene and maternal education: Evidence from The Gambia, in: Social Science and Medicine, vol. 43, pp. 1579-1590. [5027]

Beckerleg, S. (1994): Gender, work and illness: The influence of a research unit on an agricultural community in the Gambia, in: Health Policy and Planning, vol. 9, pp. 419-428. [5028]

Allman, Jean (1994): Making mothers: Missionaries, medical officers and women's work in Colonial Asante, 1925-1945, in: History Workshop Journal, vol. 38, pp. 23-47. [5029]

Avotri, Joyce Y. / Walters, Vivienne (1999): ‘You just look at our work and see if you have any freedom on earth’: Ghanaian women's accounts of their work and their health, in: Social Science and Medicine, vol. 48, pp. 123-1133. [5030]

Avotri, Joyce Y. / Walters, Vivienne (2001): ‘We women worry a lot about our husbands’: Ghanaian women talking about their health and their relationships with men, in: Journal of Gender Studies, vol. 10, pp. 197-211. [5031]

Buor, Daniel (2004): Determinants of utilisation of health services by women in rural and urban areas in Ghana, in: Geo Journal, vol. 61, pp. 89-102. [5032]

Greenstreet, Mirinda (1991): Functional literacy and health education for women in Ghana: A case study, in: Adult Education and Development, vol. 36, pp. 133-144. [5033]

Nowak, Joanne (2009): Gendered perceptions of migration among skilled female Ghanaian nurses, in: Gender and Development, vol. 17, no. 2, pp. 269-280. [5034]

Williamson, David et al. (2004): Gender differences in an emerging health profession, Ghanaian women as itinerant drug vendors, in: African and Asian Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 77-91. [5035]

Guillaume, Agnes (1991): Women, children and health in Cote d'Ivoire, in: Turshen Meredeth (ed.): Women and health in Africa, Africa World Press, Trenton, pp. 169-186. [5036]

Amuyunzu-Nyamongo, Mary (1998): Willing the spirits to reveal themselves: Rural Kenyan mother's responsibility to restore their children's health, in: Medical Anthropology Quarterly, vol. 12, pp. 490-502. [5037]

Centre for Reproductive Rights and Federation of Women Lawyers Kenya (2007): Failure to deliver, Violations of Women´s Human Rights in Kenyan health facilities, Centre for Reproductive Rights/FIDA-Kenya, Nairobi. [11968]

Kanogo, Tabitha (2001): The medicalization of maternity in colonial Kenya, in: Odhiambo, Atieno (ed.): African historians and African voices, Basler Afrika Bibliographien, Basel, pp. 75-113. [5038]

Opole, Monica (1991): Women`s indigenous knowledge base in the translation of nutritional and medical value of ediable local plants in Western Kenya, in: Prah, Kwesi (ed.): Culture, Gender, Science and technology in Africa, Harp Publishers, Windhoek, pp. 81-95. [5039]

Buelow, George (1981): Eve’s rib, Association membership and mental health among Kru women, in: Liberian Studies Journal, vol. 9, pp. 23-33. [5040]

Moore, Owen / Moore Rheinhart, K. (1985): Women and the healing arts in Liberia, A traditional health care delivery system in transition, in: Anthropology, vol. 14, pp. 27-40. [5041]

Hogg, Angela / Makwiza, Berlina et al. (2005): Finding a curriculum that works under trees: Literacy and health education for adolescent girls in rural Malawi, in: Development in Practice, vol. 15, pp. 655-667. [5042]

Nangolo, Lydia / Peltzer, Karl (2003): Violence against women and its mental health consequences in Namibia, in: Gender and Behaviour, vol. 1, pp. 16-33. [5043]

Jaffre, Yannick / Prual, Alain (1994): Midwives in Niger, An uncomfortable position between social behaviours and health care constraits, in: Social Science and Medicine, vol. 38, no. 8, pp. 1069-1073. [5044]

Rasmussen, Susan J. (1994): Female sexuality, social reproduction, and the politics of medical intervention in Northern Niger, in: Culture, Medicine and Psychatry, vol. 19, pp. 1-20. [5045]

Rasmussen, Susan J. (1997): Gender and ethnicity in health care, The case or Tuareg women in Niger, in: Rosander, Eva (ed.): Transforming female identities, Women’s organisational forms in West Africa, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala, pp. 115-143. [5046]

Rasmussen, Susan J. (1998): Only women know trees, Medicine women and the role of herbal healing in Tuareg culture, in: Journal of Anthropological Research, vol. 54, pp. 147-171. [5047]

Rasmussen, Susan J. (2000): From childbearers to culture-bearers: Transition to postchildbearing among Tuareg women, in: Medical Anthropology, vol. 19, no. 1, pp. 91-116. [5048]

Rasmussen, Susan J. (2000): Exhaulted mothers, Gender, aging and post childbearing experience in a Tuareg community, in: Hodgson, Dorothy (ed.): Rethinking pastoralism in Africa, Gender, culture and the myth of the patriarchal pastoralist, James Currey, Oxford, pp. 186-206. [5049]

Rasmussen, Susan J. (2006): Those who touch, Tuareg medicine women in anthropological perspective, Northern Illionois University Press, De Kalb/Urbana. [5050]

Abah, Steve Oga (2002): Playing in the dust, Gender games and women’s health in Nigeria, in: Cornwall, Andrea / Welbourn, Alice (eds.): Realizing rights, Transforming approaches to sexual and reproductive well-being, Zed Books, London, pp. 73-83. [5051]

Adepoju, Adunola / Aina, O.I. et al. (2002): The culture of male supremacy and emergency obstetric care, The Nigerian experience, in: African Anthropologist, vol. 9, no. 2, pp. 157-182. [5052]

Chiwuzie, J.C. / Okolocha, C. (2001): Traditional belief systems and maternal mortality in a semi-urban community in Southern Nigeria, in: African Journal of Reproductive Health, vol. 5, pp. 75-82. [5053]

Iyun, Bose (1995): The impact of structural adjustment on maternal and child health in Nigeria, in: Thomas-Emeagwali, Gloria (ed.): Women pay the price: Structural adjustment in Africa and the Caribbean, Africa World Press, Trenton. [5054]

Lewis, I.M. / Al-Safi, A. / Hurreiz, S. (eds.) (1991): Women’s medicine, The Zar-Bori cult in Africa and beyond, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh. [5055]

MacLean, U. (1997): Folk medicine and fertility, Aspects of Yourba medical practice affecting women, in: Harcort, Wendy (ed.) Power, reproduction and gender: Intergenerational transfer of knowledge, Zed Books, London, pp. 161-179. [5056]

Odimegwu, Clifford (2001): Tradition and health: The predicament of female adolescents among the Igbo, in: Journal of Cultural Studies, vol. 3, no. 1, pp. 284-300. [5057]

Okafor, Chinyelu B./ Rizzuto, Rahna R. (1994): Women's and health-care providers' views of maternal practices and services in rural Nigeria, in: Studies in Family Planning, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 353-361 [5058]

Okojie, Christina (1995): Environmental hazards and the health status of women and children in a Riverine Community in Nigeria: Nikrowa in Edo State, in: Journal of Social Development in Africa, vol. 10, pp. 25-35 [5059]

Okunribido, Osibamke (1997): Cultural perceptions of diarrhea and illness management choices among Yoruba mothers in Oyo State, Nigeria, in: International Quarterly of Community Health, vol. 17, no. 3, pp. 309-318. [5060]

Owoh, Kenna (1995): Gender and health in Nigerian structural adjustment, Rae Lesser (ed.): Engendering wealth and well-being: Empowerment for global change, Westview Press, Boulder, pp. 181-194. [5061]

Wall, Lewis (1998): The social context of maternal mobidity and morality among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria, in: Studies in Family Planning, vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 61-89. [5062]

Foley, Ellen E. (2001): No money, no care, Women and health sector reform in Senegal, in: Urban Anthropology, vol. 30, no. 1, pp. 1-50. [5065]

Jambai, A, Mac Cormack, C. (1996): Maternal health, war and religious tradition: Autorative knowledge in Pujehun district, Sierra Leone, in: Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 10, 2, pp. 270-286. [5063]

MacCormack, Carol (1997): Health, fertility and birth in Moyamba District, Sierra Leone, in: Harcort, Wendy (ed.) Power, reproduction and gender: Intergenerational transfer of knowledge, Zed Books, London, pp. 75-114. [5064]

Mugambi, Jane (2017): Improving the health outcomes of Somali women, a collaborative diabetes prevention project, in: Jenda, 31. [5066]

Artz, L. / Smythe, D. / Combrinck, H. et al. (2006): Caught between policy and practice, Health and justice responses to gender based-violene, Crime, Violence and Injury Review, Medical Research Council, Cape Town. [5067]

Cunnan, Priscilla (1997): Family planning in an informal settlement, the case of Canaan in Durban, South Africa, in: Kalilpeni, Ezekiel / Thuiri, Philip (eds.): Issues and perspectives on health care in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, pp. 165-177. [5068]

Human Rights Watch (1997): South Africa, Violence against women and the medico legal system, Human Rights Watch Publications, vol. 9, no. 4A, New York. [5069]

Klugman, Barbara (1999): Mainstreaming gender equality in health policy, in: Agenda, pp. 48-69. [12346]

Moodley, Vadi (1997): The health status of women in a South African peri-urban settlement, The case of Amadawe, in: Kalilpeni, Ezekiel / Thuiri, Philip (eds.): Issues and perspectives on health care in contemporary Sub-Saharan Africa, Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, pp. 179-193. [5070]

Morgen, Ruth (2003): ‘I’ve got two men and one woman’, Ancestors, sexuality and identity among same-sex identified women traditional healers in South Africa, in: Culture, Health and Sexuality, vol. 5, no. 3, pp. 375-391. [5071]

Amal Pax Kamilo, Vicky / Valentino, Ajwok Mary (2020): COVID-19 AND THE IMPACT ON SOUTH SUDANESE WOMEN PEACEBUILDERS, Unyoke Foundation, Johannesburg. [12099]

Constantinides, Pamela (1978): Women's spirit possession and urban adaptation in the Muslim northern Sudan, Caplan, Patricia / Burja, Janet (eds.): Women united, women divided, Cross-cultural perspectives on female solidarity, Tavistock Publications, London, pp. 185-206. [5072]

Constantinides, Pamela (1985): Women heal women, Spirit possession and sexual segretation in a Muslim society, in: Social Science and Medicine, vol. 21, no. 6, pp. 685-692. [5073]

Groteberg, Edith (1990): Mental health aspects of Zar for women in Sudan, in: Rotheblum, Esther D. / Cole, Ellen (eds.): Women's mental health in Africa, Heinemann Publishers, Harrington Park Press, New York, pp. 15-24. [5075]

Gruenbaum, Ellen (1990): Nuer women in southern Sudan: health, reproduction, and work, Michigan State University (WID working paper, 215) East Lansing. [5074]

Lewis, I.M. / Al-Safi, Ahmed / Hurreiz, Sayyid (eds.) (1991): Women’s medicine, The zar-bori cult in Africa and beyond, Edingburg University Press, Edingburgh. [5076]

Gort, Enid (1997): Swazi traditional healers, role transformation, and gender, in: Mikell, Gwendolon (ed.): African feminism: the politics of survival in Sub-Saharan Africa, Philadelphia, pp. 298-309. [5079]

Green, Edward (1989): Mystical black power, The calling to diviner mediumship in Southern Africa, in: Shepheard, Caroline et al. (eds.): Women as healers, Cross-cultural perspectives, London, pp. 186-200. [5078]

Nxumalo, Mamane (2000): On women and health in Swaziland, in: Forster, Peter / Nsibande, Bongani (eds.): Contemporary social and economic issues, Ashgate Publishers, Aldershot. [5077]

Lansdown, R.G. / Bundy, D.A. et al. (1998): Implications for school-based health programmes of age and gender patterns in the Tanzanian primary school, in: Tropical Medicine and International Health, vol. 3, issue 3, pp. 850-853. [5080]

Lugalla, Joe (1995): The impact of structural adjustment on women’s and children’s health in Tanzania, in: Review of African Political Economy, no. 63, pp. 43-53. [5081]

Obrist, van Eeuwijk, B. (1997): Health definitions of women in a low-standard settlement of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, in: Gottschalk-Batschkus, Ch. / Schuler, J. Iding, D. (eds.): Frauen und Gesundheit, Ethnomedizinische Perspektiven, Curare Sonderband, 11, VWB Verlag, Berlin, pp. 71-77. [5082]

Silberschmidt, Margarethe / Rasch, Vibeke (2001): Adolescent girls, illegal abortions and „suggar daddies“ in Dar es Salaam: Vulnerable victims and active social agents, in: Social Science and Medicine, vol. 52, pp. 1815-1826. [5083]

CODESRIA (2008): The influence of cultural practices and gender dynamics in materal mortality in Uganda, Annotated Bibliography, Dakar. [5084]

Hegarty, Trish (1996): Health care in a shoestring: The impact of debt in Uganda, in: Lieshout, Mary Van (ed.): A women’s world, Beyond the headlines, Attic Press, Dublin, pp. 51-60. [5085]

Kisembo, Agnes (2000): Accessability and utilization of reproductive health information and services, A case of women with disabilities in Mbara District, Occasional Paper, no. 13, Department of Women and Gender Studies, Makerere University, Kampala. [5086]

Wakhweya, Angela (1999): Women’s health and human rights in Uganda, ‘To be or not to be, that is the question’, in: Fox, Diana / Hasci, Naima (eds.): The challenges of women’s activism and human rights in Africa, The Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, pp. 266-286. [5087]

Loh, Cindy (2003): Assessing culturally bound beliefs related to diarreal diseases among rural women, Chipata District, Zambia, in: International Quarterly of Community Health Education, vol. 21, no. 3, pp. 257-269. [5088]

Ndubani, P. / Hojer, B. (1999): Traditional healers and the treatment of sexually transmitted illnesses in rural Zambia, in: Journal of Ethnopharmacology, vol. 67, pp. 15-25. [5089]

Nyashanu, Mathew/Ikhile, Deborah/Thamary, Karonga/Chireshe, Rumbidzai (2020): The impact of COVID-19 lockdown in a developing country, Narratives of self-employed women in Ndola, Zambia, In: Health Care for Women International, vol 41, issue 11-12, pp. 1370-1383. [11621]

Schuster, Ilsa (1981): Perspectives in development: The problem of nurses and nursing in Zambia, in: Nelson, Nici (ed.): African women in the development process, London, pp. 77-98. (and published in Journal of Development Studies, vol. 17, pp. 77-90) [5090]

Wright, Marcia (1988): Women and children's health in Southern Africa: A reconnaisance in Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana, in: Wright, Marcia / Stein, Zena A. / Scandlyn, Jean (eds.): Women's health and apartheid: The health of women and children and the future of progressive primary health care in Southern Africa, Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 143-158. [5091]

Hanmar, Lucia (1994): Welfare and user free finance health care? The impact of gender on policy outcomes, Theory and evidence from Zimbabwe, ISS Working Paper no. 180, Institute of Social Studies, Den Haag. [5092]

Rowley, Chishamiso (2000): Challenges to effective maternal health care delivery, The case of traditional certified nurse midwives in Zimbabwe, in: Journal of Asian and African Studies, vol. 35, pp. 251-263. [5093]

Wright, Marcia (1988): Women and children's health in Southern Africa: A reconnaisance in Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, and Botswana, in: Wright, Marcia / Stein, Zena A. / Scandlyn, Jean (eds.): Women's health and apartheid: The health of women and children and the future of progressive primary health care in Southern Africa, Columbia University Press, New York, pp. 143-158. [5094]