Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa : From the Margins to the Centre

Front cover -- Africa Now -- About the author -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Indeed Structured Living Indeed -- Map -- 1 Introduction -- The African city in reality and theory -- Urban planning -- Gender in the city -- Economic informality in the city -- 2 Theorizing planning and economic informality in an African city -- The origin of Nairobi -- Economic implications of the founding of Nairobi -- The plight of Africans in Nairobi city -- The planning of economic informality in Nairobi -- table 2.1 Licensed hawkers, June 1973 -- Conclusion -- 3 Economic informality in Nairobi between 1980 and 2010 -- Introduction -- Management of hawkers -- 4 Women in Nairobi -- table 4.1 Nairobi's population by gender, 1948-2009 -- table 4.2 Distribution of population by gender in Nairobi, 2009 -- table 4.3 Highest level of education of population aged three years and above by sex in Nairobi, 2009 -- The position of women in the city -- Women's struggle for ascendancy: the 1960s to the 1980s -- The women's struggle: 1990 to 2010 -- 5 Women, mobility and economic informality -- Women and mobility -- Mobility of women in economic informality -- table 5.1 The location of informal economy women's residences in Nairobi -- table 5.2 Sources of start-up capital of Nairobi women in the informal economy -- Modes of movement -- 6 Women in economic informality in Nairobi -- The literature on women in economic informality -- Women's characteristics and role in economic informality -- Implications for participation in economic informality -- 7 The quest for spatial justice: from the margins to the centre -- Women and land in the city -- table 7.1 Women's business locations in the city -- table 7.2 Type of women's business buildings in the city -- The Taveta Road phenomenon -- Factors that facilitated women's entry into Taveta Road