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Spirit Wives And Church Mothers - Marriage, Survival, And Healing In Central Mozambique

by Christy Schuetze

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 Explores how the growth of Pentecostal churches in central Mozambique occurred alongside a striking increase in so-called traditional religious practices such as spirit mediumship and spiritual healing.
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Equals In Learning And Piety - Muslim Women Scholars In Nigeria And North America

by Beverly Mack

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 An intellectual history of the Yan Taru (Associates) movement, a women-led Islamic educational organization that continues to this day in both northern Nigeria and in the US. Beverly Mack argues that this formidable Muslim womenâ€™s movement consolidated the religious and social order established by the Sokoto Jihad in the early nineteenth century.
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A Bold Profession - African Nurses In Rural Apartheid South Africa

by Leslie Anne Hadfield

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 In rural South African clinics, Black nurses played critical roles. Leslie Anne Hadfield compellingly demonstrates how these women were able to successfully carve out their own professional space and reshape notions of health and healing in the Eastern Cape.
Holding The World Together - African Women In Changing Perspective

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 Featuring contributions from some of the most accomplished scholars on the topic, Holding the World Together explores the rich and varied ways in which women have wielded power across the African continent, from the precolonial period to the present.
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Silenced Resistance - Women, Dictatorships, And Genderwashing In Western Sahara And Equatorial Guinea

by Joanna Allan

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 In this innovative work, Joanna Allan demonstrates why we should foreground gender as key for understanding both authoritarian power projection and resistance. She brings an ethnographic component to examine how concerns for equality and women's rights can be co-opted for authoritarian projects.
Women'S Organizations And Democracy In South Africa - Contesting Authority

by Shireen Hassim

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 Examines interactions between transition to democracy in South Africa and South African women's movement. This work explores the gendered nature of liberation and regime change. It reveals how women's political organizations both shaped, and were shaped by the broader democratic movement offering a historically informed discussion.
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Rising Anthills - African And African American Writing On Female Genital Excision, 1960-2000

by Elisabeth Bekers

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 Shows how the debate on female genital excision has evolved over the last four decades of the twentieth century, in response to changing attitudes about ethnicity, nationalism, colonialism, feminism, and human rights. The author discerns a gradual evoluti
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Surviving The Slaughter - The Ordeal Of A Rwandan Refugee In Zaire

by University Of Wisconsin Press

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 In this firsthand account of inexplicable brutality, day-to-day suffering, and survival, Marie Beatrice Umutesi sheds light on ""the other genocide"" that targeted the Hutu refugees of Rwanda after the victory of the Rwandan Patriotic Front in 1994.
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Slave Trade And Abolition - Gender, Commerce, And Economic Transition In Luanda

by Vanessa S. Oliveira

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 Traces how existing commercial networks adapted to changes in the Atlantic slave trade during the first half of the nineteenth century. Slave Trade and Abolition reveals how women known as donas were often important cultural brokers, acting as intermediaries between foreign and local people.
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Playing With Dynamite

by Sharon Harrigan

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 story about the family secrets that can distance us from each other and the honesty that can bring us closer. Itâ€™s about a daughter who goes looking for her father but finds her mother instead. Itâ€™s about memory and truth, grieving and growing, and what it means to go home again.
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Holding The World Together - African Women In Changing Perspective

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 Suitable for classroom use, this comprehensive volume demonstrates social, economic, and cultural changes on the African continent and internationally.
Silenced Resistance - Women, Dictatorships, And Genderwashing In Western Sahara And Equatorial Guinea

by Joanna Allan

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 This comparative study of authoritarian regimes and the resistance movements in Spain's former African colonies demonstrates why we should foreground gender as a key lens for understanding both authoritarian power projection and resistance.
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The New Paradigm In Architecture

by Charles Jencks

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 The story of a movement that changed the face of architecture over the last 40 years of the 20th century. First written at the start of an architectural movement in the middle 1970s, this text was translated into 11 languages. The seventh edition brings the history up to date for the 21st century.
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Shaping Tradition - Women'S Roles In Ceremonial Rituals Of The Agwagune

by David Uru Iyam

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 Using the Agwagune community in southeastern Nigeria as a case study, David Uru Iyam asserts that women are not stereotypically submissive, oppressed, or passive. Though women are often misrepresented in studies that fail to ask about their agency, Iyam highlights the overlooked contributions of women that uphold and change entire social systems.
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A Bold Profession - African Nurses In Rural Apartheid South Africa

by Leslie Anne Hadfield

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 In rural South African clinics, Black nurses had to navigate the intersections of traditional African healing practices, changing gender relations, and increasing educational and economic opportunities for South Africa's Black middle class. Leslie Anne Hadfield demonstrates how these women were able to reshape notions of health and healing.
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Slave Trade And Abolition - Gender, Commerce, And Economic Transition In Luanda

by Vanessa S. Oliveira

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 Traces how existing commercial networks adapted to changes in the Atlantic slave trade during the first half of the nineteenth century. Slave Trade and Abolition reveals how women known as donas were often important cultural brokers.
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Claiming Civic Virtue - Gendered Network Memory In The Mara Region, Tanzania

by Jan Bender Shetler

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 Provides a wide-ranging investigation of the gendered nature of historical memory and its influence on the development of the Mara region of Tanzania over the past 150 years. Shetler's exploration of oral traditions and histories opens new vistas for understanding how women and men in this culture tell their stories and assert their roles.
Muslim Women In Postcolonial Kenya - Leadership, Representation, And Social Change

by Ousseina D. Alidou

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I Am Evelyn Amony - Reclaiming My Life From The Lord'S Resistance Army

by Evelyn Amony

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 More than 60,000 children were abducted in east and central Africa in the 1990s by the violent rebel group the Lordâ€™s Resistance Army and its notorious commander Joseph Kony. Evelyn Amony was one of them. I Am Evelyn Amony tells a harrowing story of heartbreaking loss, unrelenting horror, and courageous survival.
Gendering Ethnicity In African Womenâ€™S Lives

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 The elegists, ancient Rome's most introspective poets, filled their works with vivid, first-person accounts of dreams. Emma Scioli examines these varied and visually striking textual dreamscapes, arguing that the poets exploited dynamics of visual representation to share with readers the intensely personal experience of dreaming.
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Robert Louis Stevenson - Writer Of Boundaries

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 Robert Louis Stevenson was the author of ""Treasure Island"". This work looks, with varied critical approaches, at his literary production and unites to confer scholarly legitimacy on this writer. It says that Stevenson reinvented the ""personal essay"" and the ""walking tour essay,"" in texts of ironic stylistic brilliance.
Engaging Modernity - Muslim Women And The Politics Of Agency In Postcolonial Niger

by Ousseina Alidou

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 Provides a rich and compelling portrait of Muslim women in Niger as they confront the challenges and opportunities of the twentieth century. Contrary to Western stereotypes of passive subordination, these women are taking control of their own lives and resisting domination from indigenous traditions, westernisation, and Islam alike.
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Engaging Modernity - Muslim Women And The Politics Of Agency In Postcolonial Niger

by Ousseina Alidou

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 Presents a portrait of Muslim women in Niger as they confront the challenges and opportunities of the twentieth century. Based on research and fieldwork, this work offers insights into the meaning of modernity for Muslim women in Niger. This is a multilayered vision of political Islam, education, popular culture, and war and its aftermath.
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Tired Of Weeping - Mother Love, Child Death, And Poverty In Guinea-Bissau

by Jonina Einarsdottir

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 In this study of maternal reactions to child death in Guinea-Bissau, West Africa, anthropologist Jonina Einarsdottir challenges the assumption that mothers in high-poverty societies will neglect their children and fail to mourn their deaths as a survival strategy.
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