Beyond tradition :
Beyond tradition : African women in cultural and political spaces /
edited by Toyin Falola and S.U. Fwatshak.
- Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press, c2011.
- xxxii, 368 p. : ill., map ; 23 cm.
"This book is based on selected papers presented at the 2010 Annual Africa History Conference held at the University of Texas at Austin between March 26 and 28"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-344) and index.
African women at the receiving end / Segun Ogungbemi -- Yoruba understanding of authentic motherhood / Balogun Abiodun Oladele -- Girl trafficking in Edo State, Nigeria / Sotunsa Mobolanle Ebunoluwa -- History, memory and imagination: Na Agontimé, a Dahomean queen in Brazil / Ana Lucia Araujo -- The image of God and image of women in Africa: African feminist liberation theology / Thomson Temitope Bello -- Religion, globalization and sexuality / Oludele Adesina Moyofade -- Protest against matchmaking: the example of Zulu Sofola's Song of a maiden / Okey Okwechime and Kola Eke -- Changing urban identities: Buchi Emecheta's Gwendolen and the joys of motherhood / Gretchen Kellough -- Feminism and the colonial subject in Ama Ata Aidoo's Our sister killjoy / Carrza L DuBose -- Media and (mis) representation of women in political leadership positions in Kenya / Joyce N. Omwoha -- Culture shock: psychological turmoil and the struggle for identity in Dangarembga's nervous conditions / Treena Balds -- A lexico-syntactic study of gender protest in selected works of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo / Temitope Abiodun Balogun -- A tribute to Modupeolu Faseke's "The Nigerian woman" / Nnamdi O. Madichie -- Nigerian pamphlet literature revisited: prurient fantasy or failed Nigerian erotica? / Ernest N. Emenyonu -- Neo-slavery and human trafficking in Boutora-Takpa's Journal d'une bonne / Ngozi O. Iloh -- Education and entrepreneurial characteristics of female academics in a Nigerian university: implication for retirement planning / Bolanle Clara Simeon-Fayomi -- A second chance: an experiment in providing education for domestic girls in southwestern Nigeria / Obilade Oluyemisi Oluremi and Gbenga-Akinbiola Abosede Oluranti -- Combating emotional slavery: educating female polytechnic students on the dangers of cohabitation / Gbenga-Akibola Abosede Oluranti and Badekale Mojisola -- Empowering rural women through theater: the case of selected communities in lagos / Tunji Azeez -- Tutoring children of immigrants in a multicultural context: a case study / Esther Some-Guiebre -- Gender dimension of household solid waste management: a comparative study of two cities in southwestern Nigeria / E.O. Oloruntoba, A.O. Coker, A.O. Olowookere, and M.K.C. Sridhar -- Gender and higher education in Africa / Janet Nasambu Kassilly Barasa -- Nigerian women in politics: a study of the role of women in President Obasanjo's administration, 1999-2003 / Lewu Alaba Yetunde.
9781592218462 1592218466 9781592218479 (pbk.) 1592218474 (pbk.)
2011015825
Women--Social conditions--Social conditions--Africa--Women--Africa--Congresses.--Congresses.
Women--Economic conditions--Africa--Congresses.
Women in development--Africa--Women in development--Africa--Congresses.--Congresses.
Sex role--Congresses.
Women in literature--Congresses.
HQ1787 / .A34 2010
305.42096
"This book is based on selected papers presented at the 2010 Annual Africa History Conference held at the University of Texas at Austin between March 26 and 28"--Preface.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 343-344) and index.
African women at the receiving end / Segun Ogungbemi -- Yoruba understanding of authentic motherhood / Balogun Abiodun Oladele -- Girl trafficking in Edo State, Nigeria / Sotunsa Mobolanle Ebunoluwa -- History, memory and imagination: Na Agontimé, a Dahomean queen in Brazil / Ana Lucia Araujo -- The image of God and image of women in Africa: African feminist liberation theology / Thomson Temitope Bello -- Religion, globalization and sexuality / Oludele Adesina Moyofade -- Protest against matchmaking: the example of Zulu Sofola's Song of a maiden / Okey Okwechime and Kola Eke -- Changing urban identities: Buchi Emecheta's Gwendolen and the joys of motherhood / Gretchen Kellough -- Feminism and the colonial subject in Ama Ata Aidoo's Our sister killjoy / Carrza L DuBose -- Media and (mis) representation of women in political leadership positions in Kenya / Joyce N. Omwoha -- Culture shock: psychological turmoil and the struggle for identity in Dangarembga's nervous conditions / Treena Balds -- A lexico-syntactic study of gender protest in selected works of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo / Temitope Abiodun Balogun -- A tribute to Modupeolu Faseke's "The Nigerian woman" / Nnamdi O. Madichie -- Nigerian pamphlet literature revisited: prurient fantasy or failed Nigerian erotica? / Ernest N. Emenyonu -- Neo-slavery and human trafficking in Boutora-Takpa's Journal d'une bonne / Ngozi O. Iloh -- Education and entrepreneurial characteristics of female academics in a Nigerian university: implication for retirement planning / Bolanle Clara Simeon-Fayomi -- A second chance: an experiment in providing education for domestic girls in southwestern Nigeria / Obilade Oluyemisi Oluremi and Gbenga-Akinbiola Abosede Oluranti -- Combating emotional slavery: educating female polytechnic students on the dangers of cohabitation / Gbenga-Akibola Abosede Oluranti and Badekale Mojisola -- Empowering rural women through theater: the case of selected communities in lagos / Tunji Azeez -- Tutoring children of immigrants in a multicultural context: a case study / Esther Some-Guiebre -- Gender dimension of household solid waste management: a comparative study of two cities in southwestern Nigeria / E.O. Oloruntoba, A.O. Coker, A.O. Olowookere, and M.K.C. Sridhar -- Gender and higher education in Africa / Janet Nasambu Kassilly Barasa -- Nigerian women in politics: a study of the role of women in President Obasanjo's administration, 1999-2003 / Lewu Alaba Yetunde.
9781592218462 1592218466 9781592218479 (pbk.) 1592218474 (pbk.)
2011015825
Women--Social conditions--Social conditions--Africa--Women--Africa--Congresses.--Congresses.
Women--Economic conditions--Africa--Congresses.
Women in development--Africa--Women in development--Africa--Congresses.--Congresses.
Sex role--Congresses.
Women in literature--Congresses.
HQ1787 / .A34 2010
305.42096