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Title Sisterhood, feminisms, and power : from Africa to the diaspora / edited by Obioma Nnaemeka.

Publication Info. Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, [1998]
©1998

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 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  305.42096 S623S    Check Shelf
Description xvii, 513 pages ; 24 cm
Note Papers presented at an international conference on Women in Africa and the African Diaspora (WAAD), held July 13-18, 1992 in Nsukka, Nigeria.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [485]-498) and index.
Contents Introduction: reading the rainbow / Obioma Nnaemeka -- The African woman today / Ama Ata Aidoo -- Feminism and African womanhood / 'Zulu Sofola -- African women at the grassroots: the silent partners of the women's movement / Olabisi Aina -- Women and creative writing in Africa / Flora Nwapa -- Female power: water priestesses of Oru-Igbo / Sabine Jell-Bahlsen -- An appraisal of feminism in the socio-political development of Nigeria / Glo Chukukere -- Africana womanism / Clenora Hudson-Weems -- North American feminisms/global feminisms: contradictory or complementary? / Angela Miles -- The gap between gender research and activism in Uganda / Deborah Kasente -- Challenges for the inclusion of gender issues in social science research and planning / P.L. Maholtra -- Singing in prison: women writers and the discourse of resistance / Pamela Ryan -- Closing the gap--activism and academia in South Africa: towards a women's movement / Gertrude Fester -- The Arab Women's Solidarity Association: the contexts of controversy and the politics of voice / Peter Hitchcock -- Maternal politics in organizing black South African women: the historical lesson / Julia Wells -- Building a power organization: a network team approach to grassroots organizing / Dé Bryant -- White women in Umkhonto we Sizwe, the ANC army of liberation: "traitors" to race, class and gender / Betty Welz -- Carrying the baton: personal perspectives on the modern women's movement in Nigeria / Ifeyinwa Iweriebor -- Adjustment and assimilation in Tanzania: a personal experience / Jamiila Cushnie-Mnyanga -- The development of a sisterhood in Memphis, Tennessee / Femi Ajanaku and Nkechi Ajanaku -- This women's studies business: beyond politics and history (thoughts on the first WAAD conference) / Obioma Nnaemeka -- Bridges across activism and the academy: one psychologist's perspective / Martha Banks -- Thinking Igbo, thinking African / Chimalum Nwankwo -- Funding African participants / Maureen Malowany -- "So why theorize about the Brontës": African women writers and English literature in Finland / Maria Olaussen -- Reflections on Nsukka '92 / Dé Bryant -- The Nigeria Conference revisited / Lumka Funani -- The Nigeria Conference / Fidelia Fouché -- Black and white: we are one, sustained by sisterly love / Julie Okpala and Elsie Ogbanna-Ohuche -- Building or burning bridges? A report from the 1992 Women in Africa and the African Diaspora Conference / Donna Flynn -- In search of common ground / Gloria Braxton -- Bridges and ridges / Chioma Opara -- The 1992 WAAD Conference: some thoughts / Liz Dimock -- Reflections on the 1992 WAAD Conference / Marie Umeh -- Cross-Atlantic womanism(s): an African American woman's reflections on the Women in Africa and the African Diaspora Conference, 1992 / Jane Splawn -- Self-naming and self-definition: an agenda for survival / Clenora Hudson-Weems -- African culture and womanhood: the issue of single-parenthood / Protus Kemdirim -- Thoughts on the 1992 WAAD Conference / Kathleen Geathers -- The First International Conference on Women in Africa and the African Diaspora: a view from the U.S.A. / Deborah Plant.
Subject Feminism -- Africa -- Congresses.
Women -- Africa -- Congresses.
Women, Black -- Congresses.
Added Author Nnaemeka, Obioma, 1948-
ISBN 0865434387 cloth alkaline paper
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