Transatlantic Feminisms : Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora.

Intro -- 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 Atta -- Chapter 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.

Transatlantic Feminisms examines the gendered complexities of African and African diaspora worlds. This book includes striking accounts of women's strategies to challenge, circumvent, or manage threats to their survival from such forces as patriarchal political regimes, militarism and violence, migration, displacement, and unrelenting poverty.

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