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The aim of this chapter is to focus upon not only the changing ideological and structural contexts within which women have acted, but also upon the very options and actions which have been effected by Hausa women over the course of time, insofar as the data permit.
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H.R. Palmer (1928, vol. 3:133–4), but included also in Hogben and Kirk-Greene, (1972:145–6). This version is from a chronicle of kings (girgam) of Daura. The legend is included in other sources, with variations. Some of these are noted in Hogben and Kirk-Greene (1972:147–51).
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Pittin, R.I. (2002). Subject and Citizen: Women, Religion and the State. In: Women and Work in Northern Nigeria. Institute of Social Studies, The Hague. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403914217_3
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