LaRay Denzer explained

LaRay Denzer is an American historian and academic who has written extensively on African women, in particular the role of women during the colonial period and during an era of military dictatorships.^{[1] [2]}

Her efforts contributed to the development of historiography and the academic history of Nigerian women with works such as The Iyalode in Ibadan Politics and Society and a biography of Folayegbe Akintunde-Ighodalo.

Selected works

Books

• Book: African encounters with domesticity. 1992. Rutgers University Press. Hansen. Karen Tranberg. 116–139. Domestic Science Training in Colonial Yorubaland, Nigeria.
• Book: Gendering the African diaspora : women, culture, and historical change in the Caribbean and Nigerian hinterland. 2010. Indiana University Press. Byfield, Judith A. (Judith Ann-Marie), Denzer, LaRay., Morrison, Anthea.. 978-0-253-35416-7. Bloomington. 313659087.
• Book: Denzer, LaRay.. Folayegbe M. Akintunde-Ighodalo : a public life. 2001. Sam Bookman Publishers. 978-048-012-9. Ibadan, Nigeria. 52570780.
• Book: Money struggles and city life : devaluation in Ibadan and other urban centers in southern Nigeria, 1986-1996. Guyer, Jane I.,, Denzer, LaRay,, Agbaje, Adigun A. B., 1957-. 2002. 0-325-07065-2. Portsmouth, NH. 48144423.

Articles

• Denzer. LaRay. 1982. Wallace-Johnson and the Sierra Leone Labor Crisis of 1939. African Studies Review. 25. 2/3. 159–183. 10.2307/524215. 524215. 144358931 .
• Denzer. LaRay. 1987. Women in Freetown politics, 1914–61: a preliminary study. Africa. en. 57. 4. 439–456. 10.2307/1159893. 1159893. 146619306 . 0001-9720.
• Denzer. LaRay. 1994. Yoruba Women: A Historiographical Study. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 27. 1. 1–39. 10.2307/220968. 220968.
• Spitzer. Leo. Denzer. LaRay. 1973. I. T. A. Wallace-Johnson and the West African Youth League. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 6. 3. 413. 10.2307/216610. 216610.
• Denzer. LaRay. 1975. Towards a study of the history of West African women's participation in nationalist politics: the early phase, 1935-1950. Africana Research Bulletin Africana Research Bulletin. en. 6. 4. 65–81. 0259-9651. 772470537.
• Guyer J.I., Denzer L. (2013) Prebendalism and the People: The Price of Petrol at the Pump. In: Adebanwi W., Obadare E. (eds) Democracy and Prebendalism in Nigeria. Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

Notes and References

1. Aderinto. Saheed. Saheed Aderinto, "A Historiographical Study of the Works of LaRay Denzer, Bolanle Awe and Nina Mba," in Mala Pandurang and Anke Bartels (eds.,) African Women Novelists: Re-Imaging Gender (New Delhi: Pencraft International, 2010) 107-123. en.
2. Web site: Female Historians and Knowledge Production for Women's Studies: The Nigerian Example Since 1974 : International Journal of Gender & Women's Studies. 2020-10-25. ijgws.com.