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| Material Type: | Conference publication, Government publication, State or province government publication |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Catherine Higgs; Barbara A Moss; Earline Rae Ferguson |
| ISBN: | 0821414550 9780821414552 0821414569 9780821414569 |
| OCLC Number: | 50123085 |
| Notes: | Papers from a conference held at the University of Tennessee from September 15-18, 1999, and funded by the Rockefeller Foundation and the University of Tennessee. |
| Description: | xxiii, 331 p. : maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | British colonial policy toward education and the roots of gender inequality in Sierra Leone, 1896-1961 / Sylvia Ojukutu-Macauley -- Agency and constructions of professional identity : African American women educators in the rural south / Valinda W. Littlefield -- Search for Anna Erskine : African American women in nineteenth-century Liberia / Nemata Blyden -- Image and representation : black women in historical accounts of colonial Jamaica / Verene A. Shepherd -- Helping ourselves : black women and grassroots activism in segregated South Africa, 1922-1952 / Catherine Higgs -- African American clubwomen and the Indianapolis NAACCP, 1912-1914 / Earline Rae Ferguson -- Witchcraft, women, and taxes in the Transkei, South Africa, 1930-1963 / Sean Redding -- "Mwen na rien, Msieu" : Jamaica Kincaid and the problem of a creole gnosis / Rhonda Cobham -- No place to call home : refugee and internally displaced women in Kenya / Cassadra R. Veney -- "Sisters and mothers are called to the city" : African American women and an even greater migration / Leslie Brown -- Mai Chaza and the politics of motherhood in colonial Zimbabwe / Barbara A. Moss -- Standing their ground : black women's sacred daily life / Fayth M. Parks -- Gender and political struggle in Kenya, 1948-1998 / Cora A. Presley -- "Lady folk is a doer" : women and the civil rights movemet in Claiborne County, Mississippi / Emilye Crosby -- Strategies for survival by Luo female artists in the rural environment in Kenya / Patricia Achieng Opondo -- Wild and holy women in the poetry of Brenda Marie Osbey / Andrea Benton Rushing -- Owning what we know : racial controversies in South African feminism, 1991-1998 / Teresa Barnes -- Decolonizing culture : the media, black women, and law / Deseriee Kennedy. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Catherine Higgs, Barbara A. Moss, Earline Rae Ferguson. |
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