Re-creating ourselves : African women & critical transformations /

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Author / Creator:Ogundipe-Leslie, Molara.
Imprint:Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 1994.
Description:xvii, 262 p. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4928411
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Varying Form of Title:African women and critical transformations
ISBN:0865434115
0865434123 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
  • Preface / Carole E. Boyce Davies
  • Introduction - Moving the Mountains Making the Links / Molara Ogundipe-Leslie
  • 1. African Women, Culture and Another Development
  • 2. Studying Women Through Literature: Theses on Rural Women in Africa
  • 3. The Female Writer and her Commitment
  • 4. Women in Nigeria
  • 5. The Proletarian Novel in Africa: Problematizing from Iyayi's Violence
  • 6. The Representation of Women: The Example of Soyinka's Ake
  • 7. The Bilingual to Quintulingual Poet in Africa
  • Interlude: Meditations: A Prose Poem on Nigeria
  • 8. Introducing WIN: Women in Nigeria
  • 9. The Rights and Humanity of the Nigerian Woman
  • 10. African Marxists, Women and a Critique of Everyday Life
  • 11. Mobilizing the Mobilizers: Sex and Gender Problems in Nigeria Today
  • 12. Beyond the Women's Decade: A Message to Middle-Class Women
  • 13. Speech at a King's Palace
  • 14. The Image of Women and the Role of the Media in a New Political Culture
  • 15. Sisters are not Brothers in Christ: Global Women in Church and Society
  • 16. Stories of Structural Adjustment (SOSA): The Human Cost of Structural Adjustment Policy (SAP) for Women
  • 17. Mandela, Decolonization and the Rest of Us
  • 18. Stiwanism: Feminism in an African Context
  • 19. In Search of Citizenship: African Women and the Myth of Democracy.