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17.2: SPECIAL ISSUE<\/a>: “African Feminisms: Cartographies for the Twenty-First Century”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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13.1: “Gender\/Class Intersections and African Women\u2019s Rights” by Carole Boyce Davies (p. 1<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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6.2: “African Literature and the Woman: The Imagined Reality as a Strategy of Dissidence” by Chimalum Moses Nwankwo (p. 195<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

6.1: “Becoming Postcolonial: African Women Changing the Meaning of Citizenship” by Patricia McFadden (p. 1<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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East Africa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mediterranean, The Levant<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Middle East<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Northern Africa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

South Africa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Southern Africa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

West Africa<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

“African Feminist Scholars in Women’s Studies: Negotiating Spaces of Dislocation and Transformation in the Study of Women” by Josephine A. Beoku-Betts and Wairimu Ngarulya Njambi (p. 113<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3.1: “Looked Class, Talked Red: Sketches of Ruth First and Redlined Africa” by Barbara Harlow (p. 226<\/a>)
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East Africa<\/strong> –<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

20.1: “Afro-Asian Peoples’ Solidarity Organization (AAPSO) Presidium Committee Nairobi Preparations” by Destiny Wiley-Yancy (p. 174<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Mediterranean, The Levant<\/strong> –<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

19.1: “The Struggles for Women’s Suffrage in Lebanon” by Emma Schubert (p. 202<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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18.2: “Listening in Arabic: Feminist Research with Syrian Refugee Mothers” by Neda Maghbouleh, Laila Omar, Melissa A. Milkie, and Ito Peng (p. 482<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2.1: “On Writing and Return: Palestinian-American Reflections” by Lisa Suhair Majaj (p. 113<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Middle East<\/strong> – <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

23.1: “The Palestinian Feminist Movement and the Settler Colonial Ordeal: An Intersectional and Interdependent Framework” by Eman Alasah (p. 110<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Traversing Disciplinary Boundaries, Globalizing Indigeneities: Visibilizing Assyrians in the Present” by Mariam Georgis (p. 182<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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21.2: “Caring for the Dead: Corpse Washers, Touch, and Mourning in Contemporary Turkey” by Asl\u0131 Zengin (p. 350<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Proactive Grief: Palestinian Reflections on Death” by Eman Ghanayem (p. 397<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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19.1: “The Struggles for Women’s Suffrage in Lebanon” by Emma Schubert (p. 202<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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9.2: “Two. Because Poems Are: (For Fallujah)” by Veronica Golos (p. 100<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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6.2: “Politics by Other Means: Two Egyptian Artists, Gazbia Sirry and Ghada Amer” by Chika Okeke-Agulu (p. 117<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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6.1: “Nobel Peace Prize Speech: Nobel Lecture, Oslo, 10 December 2004” by Wangari Maathai (p. 195<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4.1: “A ‘Meridians’ Report on MADRE: The War on Iraq” by Elizabeth Hanssen (p. 132<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2.2: “In Many Worlds: A Discussion with Egyptian Artist Sabah Naeem” by Jessica Winegar (p. 146<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2.1: “On Writing and Return: Palestinian-American Reflections” by Lisa Suhair Majaj (p. 113<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Northern Africa<\/strong> – <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

17.2: “Reflecting on Feminisms in Africa: A Conversation from Morocco” by Fatima Sadiqi and Aziza Ouguir (p. 269<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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6.2: “Outrageous Behavior: Women’s Public Performance in North Africa” by Laura <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chakravarty Box (p. 78<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


South Africa<\/strong> – <\/h4>\n\n\n\n

11.1: “We Are What We Pretend to Be: The Cautionary Tale of Reading Winnie Mandela as a Rhetorical Widow” by Linda Diane Horwitz and Catherine R. Squires (p. 66<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4.2: “Redefining the Terms: Putting South African Women on Democracy’s Agenda
by Leslie Hill (p. 113<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3.1: “South African and African American Women: Journey to Freedom” by Elise Young and Zengie Mangaliso (p. 191<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2.1: “Contradictory Locations: Black women and the Discourse of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM ) in South Africa” by Pumla Dineo Gqola (p. 130<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Southern Africa<\/strong> –<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

15.2: “Motherhood as Activism in the Angolan People’s War, 1961\u20131975” by Selina Makana (p. 353<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n


West Africa<\/strong> –<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

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23.1: “Safe Motherhood Initiative: Whither African Indigenous Birthing Knowledge?” by Esther Oluwashina Ajayi-Lowo (p. 263<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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17.2: “Beyond the Spectacular: Contextualizing Gender Relations in the Wake of the Boko Haram Insurgency” by Charmaine Pereira (p. 246<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Decade for Women Information Resources #5: Images of Nairobi, Reflections and Follow-Up, International Women\u2019s Tribune Center” by Callan Swaim-Fox (p. 296<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Saving Nigerian Girls: A Critical Reflection on Girl-Saving Campaigns in the Colonial and Neoliberal Eras” by Abosede George (p. 309<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Smoke Is Everywhere, but No One Is Running: A Kenyan Activist Speaks Out” by Anne Moraa (p. 325<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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13.1: “Werewere Liking\u2019s Village ‘Ki-Yi:’ Dissidence and Creativity in Abidjan” by Cheryl Toman (p. 186<\/a>)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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6.2: “Feminist or Simply Feminine? Reflections on the Works of Nana Asm\u0101’u, a Nineteenth-Century West African Woman Poet, Intellectual, and Social Activist” by Chukwuma Azuonye (p. 54<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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