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Women in African Publishing and the Book Trade: A Series of Profiles. Series II
African Book Publishing Record, volume 48, issue 2 (2022), pp. 1-69
"The gains made by African women publishers need to be safeguarded and consolidated, however it is still not straightforward for women to publish. We shall no doubt see more women publishers establishing and heading publishing houses. …There are issues, relevant across the board in Africa, includi
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Women in African Publishing and the Book Trade: A Series of Profiles
African Book Publishing Record, volume 47, issue 1 (2021), pp. 8-43
"The late Asenath Bole Odaga, one of the pioneers of women in publishing in Africa and founder of Lake Publishers & Enterprises Ltd in Kenya in 1983, in an account of her early experience as a publisher, wrote1 that she found it to be an uphill struggle initially, and was confronted by male colleagu
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Cultural Revolution in Iran: Contemporary Popular Culture in the Islamic Republic
London; New York: Tauris, new paperback ed. (2017), xiv, 287 pp.
"Despite the repressive power of the current regime the immense creativity of popular cultural practices, that negotiate and resist a repressive system, is a potent and dynamic force. This book draws on the expertise and experience of Iranian and international academics and activists to address dive
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Promoting gender equality through textbooks: A methodological guide
Paris: UNESCO (2009), 99 pp.
Gender Bias in Textbooks: A Hidden Obstacle on the Road to Gender Equality in Education
Paris: UNESCO (2007), 54 pp.
Women Empowerment Through Publishing: Papers Presented at the Second Nigeria International Book Fair, 8-12 May, 2003
Lagos: Nigerian Book Fair Trust (2003), 130 pp.
"One in a series of collections from the Nigerian Book Fair Trust containing the opening addresses, keynote speeches, and papers presented at the Nigeria International Book Fair, held annually since 2002, each fair focusing on a special topic or topics. The proceedings of the 2003 book fair, which h
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Changing Lives: Promoting a Reading Culture in Africa. Indaba 2001. Harare, Zimbabwe 4-5 August, 2001
Harare: Zimbabwe International Book Fair Trust (2002), 310 pp.
"The theme of the 2001 Indaba at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair was devoted to “Changing People’s Lives: Promoting a Reading Culture in Africa”, and this volume brings together 34 of the papers that were presented, together with a record of some of the discussions that took place followi
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Women in African Studies Scholarly Publishing
Trenton, New Jers.: Africa World Press (2001), 171 pp.
"Five essays that seek to examine the challenges that women face in African studies scholarly publishing, and which aims to offer insights “into the shifting, intellectual, institutional, and ideological contexts and contests in African studies, as practiced in Africa and the North, by men and wom
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Women and Activism: ZIBF Women Writers. Conference 1999
Harare: Zimbabwe Women Writers (2000), 160 pp.
"A collection of twenty-four papers and discussions from a conference on women writers that took place during the Zimbabwe International Book Fair in 1999. It includes papers by a variety of voices of women from around the world, including major African women writers. A series of country reports inc
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Gender-Sensitive Editing
London: Association for the Development of Education in Africa (ADEA), Working Group on Books and Learning Materials (2000), 108 pp.
"This excellent manual is intended as a guide for running training courses or workshops for groups of writers, illustrators, editors and others involved in producing popular reading material. Divided into six chapters, the manual takes the reader through various stages: how to develop a gender persp
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Indaba 99: Women's Voices. Gender, Books and Development
Harare: Zimbabwe International Book Fair Trust (1999), 296 pp.
"A collection of thirty-six papers, report-backs and discussions from the Zimbabwe International Book Fair Indaba 1999. The papers are grouped in four parts: those from the plenary sessions; Publishing; Writing; Research; and Access." (Hans M. Zell, Publishing, Books & Reading in Sub-Saharan Africa,
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Women in Publishing and the Book Trade in Africa: An Annotated Directory
Oxford: African Books Collective, 2nd revised and expanded ed. (1997), 34 pp.
"Supersedes a provisional listing prepared by ABC in June 1995 now revised and expanded and containing 145 entries, each with a short annotation covering areas of publishing and/or providing a short company profile. The directory is arranged in five sections (i) Women publishers in Africa (i.e. owne
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International Book Publishing: An Encyclopedia
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London; Chicago: Fritzroy Dearborn Publishers (1995), xxvi, 736 pp.
"The first part [...] deals with [...] topics as copyright protection, desktop advances, the role of the editor, multinational publishers, scholarly publishing, best-sellers, and more. Major essays explore the nature and impact of the new technologies, changing patterns of readership, scientific pub
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Gender Bias in School Text Books
London: Commonwealth Secretariat, Women's and Youth Affairs Division (1995), 96 pp.
"In response to the lack of information on gender bias in existing textbooks in the countries of the Commonwealth, the Commonwealth Secretariat commissioned three major studies of primary school textbooks: one in the Caribbean, one in Asia, and one in Africa, the latter undertaken by Wanja Thairu (K
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Making a Difference: Feminist Publishing in the South
Chestnut Hill, Mass.: Bellagio Publishing Network (1995), viii, 82 pp.
"An attempt “to map a history of feminist or women's publishing in what is known as the Third or Southern World”, and a study of the challenges which women publishers face in developing countries. Examines feminist publishing in the North, South and Southeast Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the
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