| Description |
xxi, 234 pages ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Overview Women in the African diaspora : an overview of an interdisciplinary research conference / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn -- Part I : Theoretical approaches and research methods -- African feminism : a worldwide perspective / Filomina Chioma Steady -- "The status of women" in indigenous African societies / Niara Sudarkasa -- 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 Rice Murray -- Part II : Women and new roles in African societies -- Privilege without power : women in African cults and churches / Bennetta Jules-Rosette -- Afro-American women missionaries confront the African way of life / Sylvia M. Jacobs -- Extended family involvement and roles of urban Kenyan women / Harriette Pipes McAdoo and Miriam Were -- Part III : Black women in folk culture and literature -- African diaspora women : the making of cultural workers / Bernice Johnson Reagon -- The black female presence in black Francophone literature / Karen Smyley Wallace -- God's divas : women singers in African-American poetry / Andrea Benton Rushing -- Images of black women in New World literature : a comparative approach / Martha K. Cobb -- Conclusion Research priorities for the study of women in Africa and the African diaspora / Sharon Harley |
| Notes |
Includes papers presented at the meeting, Women in the African Diaspora: an Interdisciplinary Perspective, sponsored by the Association of Black Women Historians, and held June 12-14, 1983 at Howard University |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
African American women -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Feminism -- Africa -- Congresses.
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Women -- Africa -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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Women, Black -- Social conditions -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Harley, Sharon.
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Rushing, Andrea Benton.
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Terborg-Penn, Rosalyn.
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Association of Black Women Historians (U.S.)
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| LC no. |
87022784 |
| ISBN |
0882581716 |
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