Reconceptualizing gender and reconstructing social life: Ugandan women and the path to national development

Africa Today

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 307-322

  Wakoko, Florence ^a   Lobao, Linda ^a  

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AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; ARTICLE; CRITIQUE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; EASTERN AFRICA; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ECONOMICS; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; EVALUATION; GENDER ISSUES; GENDER RELATIONS; HUMAN RELATION; POLITICAL FACTORS; POLITICS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; SOCIOECONOMICS; UGANDA; WOMEN'S RIGHTS; WOMEN'S STATUS;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; CRITIQUE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EASTERN AFRICA; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ECONOMIC FACTORS; ENGLISH SPEAKING AFRICA; GENDER ISSUES; GENDER RELATIONS; POLITICAL FACTORS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UGANDA; WOMEN'S STATUS;

AFRICA; AFRICA SOUTH OF THE SAHARA; AFRICA, EASTERN; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION STUDIES; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; POLITICS; SOCIAL CHANGE; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; UGANDA; WOMEN'S RIGHTS;

EID: 0030300228     PISSN: 00019887     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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30. Ibid.
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34. Fendru, A Socioeconomic Study of Access to Rural Finance in Uganda.
35. Morris, Lobao, and Wavamunno. Semi-Formal Finance in Uganda.
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37. Ibid., p. 64.