The course familiarises students with the significance of `gender' as an axis of social and economic differentiation in African societies. Semester 1 focussed on empirical and theoretical studies of African lives and work (social and domestic organisation; production; reproduction; gendered divisions of labour and patriarchy). Initially, the second semester's focus is on policy: how are gender issues incorporated, or not, into policies in African societies (poverty, education, health, nutrition and fertility), while the last three sessions examine the complexities of feminisms in cross-cultural contexts.