These four volumes in this major series... provide a single-sourcereference to the status of the field of women's history and to ways that the fieldcan be expanded.... A basic set for all academic libraries." -- Library JournalAcademic NewswireBerger and White focus on Sub-Saharan Africa, tracing women's history from earliest times to the present. By exploring their placein social, economic, political, and religious life, the authors highlight thechanging societal position of women through shifts over time in ideas about genderand the connections between women's public and private spheres.