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Intro -- Contents -- Prologue: Holding the World Together - Abena P. A. Busia -- Introduction - Claire Robertson and Nwando Achebe -- Part I. Representations of and by African Women -- 1. Front and Center on the Global Stage: African Women in Contemporary Novels - Elizabeth M. Perego -- 2. Contrasting Visions: Filmic Representations of African Women - Cajetan Iheka -- Part II. Religion and Politics -- 3. Politico-Religious Systems and African Women's Power - Nwando Achebe -- 4. Colonialism and Resistance: Protests and National Liberation Movements - Kathleen Sheldon -- 5. Religious Fundamentalisms and Women in Contemporary Africa - Ousseina Alidou -- 6. African Women Organize - Alicia C. Decker and Andrea L. Arrington-Sirois -- 7. Women and Politics in Africa - Aili Mari Tripp -- Part III. Economy and Society -- 8. African Women in the Real Economy: Prehistoric, Precolonial, Colonial, and Contemporary Transitions - Gracia Clark -- 9. Women and Slavery: Changes and Continuities - Claire Robertson -- 10. Education for African Girls: Still Striving for Equality - Josephine Beoku-Betts -- 11. Urbanizing Women: Merging the Personal, Political, and Spatial - Teresa Barnes -- 12. Women and the New African Diaspora - Cassandra Veney -- Part IV. Love, Marriage, and Women's Bodies, Past and Present -- 13. Love, Marriage, and Families in Africa - Rachel Jean-Baptiste and Emily Burrill -- 14. Gender and Sexuality: Gradations, Contestations - Signe Arnfred -- 15. Violence against Women: Households, Wars, Refugees, and Resistance - Henryatta Ballah and December Green -- 16. African Women and Health: Evolving Challenges - Karen Flint -- Coda: Transforming Visions - Abena P. A. Busia -- Contributors -- Index.

In considering forced migration as a consequence of global conflict, women with refugee status are especially vulnerable. The influx of refugees into the United States, in this case, refugees from Africa, requires us to examine various aspects of what it means to be a refugee. Drawing upon current and extant literature, this article investigates the challenges faced by women refugees from Africa. A womanist framework is described and applied to four areas of resettlement experience including gendered expectations, trauma and mental health, economic self-sufficiency, and cultural integration. In addition, the policy assumptions of the Refugee Act of 1980 are contrasted with the realities and experiences of women refugees from Africa. Implications for social work practice, policy advocacy, and research are discussed.

This book is a selection of writings in which the author has critically pondered issues of gender, politics and social transformation for at least three decades. The book falls into two parts: the first part, theory, comprising theoretical essays on literature, women and society, leads into the second part, practice, which presents the author's work as a social activist. Both parts are linked by her poetry. (DÜI-Hff)

Diskriminierung schwarzer Schriftstellerinnen. Hauptthemen ihrer Werke: Apartheid und ihre Folgen, Unterdrückung der schwarzen durch die weißen Frauen, Beziehungen zwischen schwarzen Männern und Frauen. (DÜI-Seu)

The politics of culture, motherhood and mothering in some African communities highlight the tensions that exist in the broader feminist theology agenda. There are emerging politics between the able and disabled feminist theologians where the binary of ability or disability is ambiguously theologised. Written from a feminist theology of disability, this qualitative study sought to understand and describe the struggles women with visual impairment face to be accepted as being fit for motherhood. Emerging qualitative themes are used to develop towards an African women theology of disability that responds to the plight of women with disabilities. The findings indicate that women with disabilities are constantly challenging and protesting ableism perceptions of motherhood by falling pregnant, giving birth and nurturing their children. They argue that the binary perceptions of ability and disability are informed by patriarchal ideologies and able-bodied women's fears of being associated with the vulnerability of disability. ; http://www.indieskriflig.org.za ; am2019 ; Practical Theology