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Title:
Holding the world together : African women in changing perspective / edited by Nwando Achebe and Claire Robertson.
Author:
Achebe, Nwando, 1970- editor.

Robertson, Claire C., 1944- editor.
Publication Information:
Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2019]
Call Number:
HQ1787 .H645 2019
ISBN:
9780299321109
Series:
Women in Africa and the diaspora

Women in Africa and the diaspora.
Physical Description:
384 pages ; 24 cm.
Contents:
Part I. Representations of and by African women. Front and center on the global stage: African women in contemporary novels / Elizabeth M. Perego -- Contrasting visions: filmic representations of African women / Cajetan Iheka -- Part II. Religion and politics. Politico-religious systems and African women's power / Nwando Achebe -- Colonialism and resistance: protests and national liberation movements / Kathleen Sheldon -- Religious fundamentalisms and women in contemporary Africa / Ousseina Alidou -- African women organize / Alicia C. Decker and Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois -- Women and politics in Africa / Aili Mari Tripp -- Part III. Economy and society. African women in the real economy: prehistoric, precolonial, colonial, and contemporary transitions / Gracia Clark -- Women and slavery: changes and continuities / Claire Robertson -- Education for African girls: still striving for equality / Josephine Beoku-Betts -- Urbanizing women: merging the personal, political, and spatial / Teresa Barnes -- Women and the new African diaspora / Cassandra Veney -- Part IV. Love, marriage, and women's bodies, past and present. Love, marriage, and families in Africa / Rachel Jean-Baptiste and Emily Burrill -- Gender and sexuality: gradations, contestations / Signe Arnfred -- Violence against women: households, wars, refugees, and resistance / Henryatta Ballah and December Green -- African women and health: evolving challenges / Karen Flint -- Coda: Transforming visions / Abena P.A. Busia.
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