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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463608903321

Titolo

Transatlantic feminisms : women and gender studies in Africa and the diaspora / / edited by Cheryl Rodriguez, Dzodzi Tsikata, and Akosua Adomako Ampofo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-0718-2

1-4985-0717-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (361 p.)

Disciplina

305.4096

Soggetti

Feminism - Africa

Women - Africa - Social conditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; I: Feminist Politics and the Politics of "Black" Feminisms; Chapter One: Feminist Organizing, Electoral Representation, and Transformation in Africa; Chapter Two: This Bridge Called the Internet; Chapter Three: Fighting Shirley Chisholm; Chapter Four: Academics and Praxis; Chapter Five: Experiences in Transformative Feminist Movement Building at the Grassroots Level in Tanzania; II: Women and the Multi-Layered Textures of Representation; Chapter Six: Mucamas and Mulatas

Chapter Seven: Feminist Perspectives in Purple Hibiscus by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Everything Good Will Come by Sefi AttaChapter Eight: Black Women and U.S. Pop Culture in the Post-Identity Era; Chapter Nine: Contemporary Black Photographic Practice in Miami, Florida; III: Transcending Borders: Survival, Resistance, and Making a Living; Chapter Ten: Like Your Own Child?; Chapter Eleven: Young Women and Survival in Post-War Uganda; Chapter Twelve: Borders within Borders; Chapter Thirteen: "You Have to Move!"; Chapter Fourteen: Uneven Integration among African Immigrant Women in France



Chapter Fifteen: "How Can I Come to Work on Saturdays When I Have a Family?"Index; About the Editors and Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

Cheryl Rodriguez is chair of the Department of Africana Studies and director of the Institute on Black Life at the University of South Florida.   Dzodzi Tsikata is associate professor at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana.  Akosua Adomako Ampofo is professor of African and gender studies and director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana.