Women in Africa and the African diaspora : a reader / edited by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn and Andrea Benton Rushing.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn
Rushing, Andrea Benton
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC : Howard University Press, 1996.
Edition:Second edition.
Subjects:
Physical Description:xxvi, 286 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • African feminism: a worldwide perspective / Filomina Chioma Steady
  • African feminism: a theoretical approach to the history of women in the African diaspora / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
  • Anthropological research methods for the study of black women in the Caribbean / A. Lynn Bolles
  • Psychological research methods: women in the African diaspora / Saundra Murray Nettles
  • The "status of women" in indigenous African societies / Niara Sudarkasa
  • African-American women missionaries confront the African way of life / Sylvia M. Jacobs
  • Privilege without power: women in African cults and churches / Bennetta Jules-Rosette
  • On becoming a feminist: learning from Africa / Andrea Benton Rushing
  • Extended family involvement of urban Kenyan professional women / Harriette Pipes McAdoo and Miriam K. Were
  • Women field workers in Jamaica during slavery / Lucille Mathurin Mair
  • To be gifted, female, and black / Darlene Clark Hine
  • God's divas: women singers in African-American poetry / Andrea Benton Rushing
  • The Feast of Good Death: an Afro-Catholic emancipation celebration in Brazil / Sheila S. Walker
  • Slavery and women in Africa and the diaspora / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
  • The black female presence in black Francophone literature / Karen Smyley Wallace
  • Images of black women in New World literature: a comparative approach / Martha K. Cobb
  • Afra-Hispanic writers and feminist discourse / Miriam DeCosta-Willis
  • African diaspora women: the making of cultural workers / Bernice Johnson Reagon.