TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rodriguez,Cheryl R.
AU  - Tsikata,Dzodzi
AU  - Ampofo,Akosua Adomako
AU  - Anyidoho,Nana Akua
AU  - Bass,Yveline
AU  - Bolles,Augusta Lynn
AU  - Celeste,Manoucheka
AU  - Ezati,Betty Akullu
AU  - Mbilinyi,Majorie
AU  - McBrien,Jody Lynn
TI  - Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora
SN  - 9781498507172
AV  - HQ1787 -- .T73 2015eb 
U1  - 305.4096 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Blue Ridge Summit
PB  - Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
KW  - Women -- Africa -- Social conditions
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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ER  -