Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa

Shireen Hassim

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• The transition to democracy in South Africa was one of the defining events in twentieth-century political history. The South African women's movement ... Lees meer

Surviving the Slaughter

Marie Beatrice Umutesi

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• In An Uncompromising Generation , Michael Wildt follows the journey of a strikingly homogenous group of young academics--who came from the educated, b... Lees meer

Gendering Ethnicity in African Women's Lives

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Do African men and women think about and act out their ethnicity in different ways? Most studies of ethnicity in Africa consider men's experiences, bu... Lees meer

Silenced Resistance

Joanna Allan

• Hardcover | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Spain's former African colonies-Equatorial Guinea and Western Sahara-share similar histories. Both are under the thumbs of heavy-handed, postcolonial ... Lees meer

Rising Anthills

Elisabeth Bekers

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Female genital excision, or the ritual of cutting the external genitals of girls and women, is undoubtedly one of the most heavily and widely debated ... Lees meer

African Women Writing Resistance

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• African Women Writing Resistance is the first transnational anthology to focus on women's strategies of resistance to the challenges they face in Afri... Lees meer

Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya

Ousseina D Alidou

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• In education, journalism, legislative politics, social justice, health, law, and other arenas, Muslim women across Kenya are emerging as leaders in lo... Lees meer

A Bold Profession

Leslie Anne Hadfield

• Hardcover | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• In rural South African clinics, Black nurses played critical roles. Charged with administering valuable and life-saving health care measures despite a... Lees meer

Slave Trade and Abolition

Vanessa S Oliveira

• Hardcover | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was one of the most influential ports for the transat... Lees meer

Claiming Civic Virtue

Jan Bender Shetler

• Hardcover | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Among communities in the Mara region of Tanzania, it is considered men's responsibility to maintain "history." But when Jan Bender Shetler's questions... Lees meer

Slave Trade and Abolition

Vanessa S Oliveira

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Well into the early nineteenth century, Luanda, the administrative capital of Portuguese Angola, was one of the most influential ports for the transat... Lees meer

Engaging Modernity

Ousseina D Alidou

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Seizing the space opened by the early 1990s democratization movement, Muslim women are carving an active, influential, but often-overlooked role for t... Lees meer

Shaping Tradition

David Uru Iyam

• Hardcover | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Agwagune women in southeastern Nigeria contribute to the cultural construction of their societies in deep and systematic ways. This reality is often c... Lees meer

I Am Evelyn Amony

Evelyn Amony

• Paperback | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Abducted at the age of eleven, Evelyn Amony spent nearly eleven years inside the Lord's Resistance Army, becoming a forced wife to Joseph Kony and mot... Lees meer

Engaging Modernity

Ousseina D Alidou

• Hardcover | Engels | Women in Africa and the Diaspora
• Engaging Modernity is Ousseina Alidou's rich and compelling portrait of Muslim women in Niger as they confront the challenges and opportunities of the... Lees meer