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Deborah Pellow. Women in Accra, Options for Autonomy. Algonac, Michigan: Reference Publications Inc., 1977. 272 pp. Maps, photos, notes, bibliography, index. Introduction by Gwendolyn Carter. $12.50

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Deborah Pellow. Women in Accra, Options for Autonomy. Algonac, Michigan: Reference Publications Inc., 1977. 272 pp. Maps, photos, notes, bibliography, index. Introduction by Gwendolyn Carter. $12.50

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 August 2017

Claire C. Robertson
Claire C. Robertson*
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African Studies, Indiana University
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ASA Review of Books , Volume 5 , 1979 , pp. 104 - 106
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Copyright © African Studies Association 1979

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References

1 Boserup, Ester, Women's Role in Economic Development (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1979).Google Scholar

2 Also, 3 of the 39 were from the same house, suggesting a lack of randomness in choosing the sample.

3 Field, M. J., The Social Organisation of the Ga People (London: Crown Agents, 1940).Google Scholar

4 There are a few Akan-influenced matrilineal Ga families, but this is rare.

5 Claire Robertson, “Socioeconomic Change in Twentieth Century Accra: Ga Women” (Ph. D. diss., Department of History, University of Wisconsin, 1974).