Re-creating ourselves : African women & critical transformations / Molara Ogundipe-Leslie.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Trenton, N.J. : Africa World Press, 1994.Description: xvii, 262 p. : 22 cmISBN:
  • 0865434115
  • 0865434123 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.42/096 20
LOC classification:
  • HQ1787 .O38 1994
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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