Beyond tradition: African women in cultural and political spaces
By: edited by Toyin Falola and S.U. Fwatshak
Contributors: Falola, Toyin; Fwatshak, Sati Umaru
Publisher: Africa World Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Trenton NJ
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Women in development; Congresses; Social conditions; Economic conditions; Women; Sex role; Women in literature
Notes: "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 and index.
Table of contents: title: African women at the receiving end / Segun Ogungbemi; title: Yoruba understanding of authentic motherhood / Balogun Abiodun Oladele; title: Girl trafficking in Edo State, Nigeria / Sotunsa Mobolanle Ebunoluwa; title: History, memory and imagination: Na Agontimé, a Dahomean queen in Brazil / Ana Lucia Araujo; title: The image of God and image of women in Africa: African feminist liberation theology / Thomson Temitope Bello; title: Religion, globalization and sexuality / Oludele Adesina Moyofade; title: Protest against matchmaking: the example of Zulu Sofola's Song of a maiden / Okey Okwechime and Kola Eke; title: Changing urban identities: Buchi Emecheta's Gwendolen and the joys of motherhood / Gretchen Kellough; title: Feminism and the colonial subject in Ama Ata Aidoo's Our sister killjoy / Carrza L DuBose; title: Media and (mis) representation of women in political leadership positions in Kenya / Joyce N. Omwoha; title: Culture shock: psychological turmoil and the struggle for identity in Dangarembga's nervous conditions / Treena Balds; title: A lexico-syntactic study of gender protest in selected works of Akachi Adimora-Ezeigbo / Temitope Abiodun Balogun; title: A tribute to Modupeolu Faseke's "The Nigerian woman" / Nnamdi O. Madichie; title: Nigerian pamphlet literature revisited: prurient fantasy or failed Nigerian erotica? / Ernest N. Emenyonu; title: Neo-slavery and human trafficking in Boutora-Takpa's Journal d'une bonne / Ngozi O. Iloh; title: Education and entrepreneurial characteristics of female academics in a Nigerian university: implication for retirement planning / Bolanle Clara Simeon-Fayomi; title: A second chance: an experiment in providing education for domestic girls in southwestern Nigeria / Obilade Oluyemisi Oluremi and Gbenga-Akinbiola Abosede Oluranti; title: Combating emotional slavery: educating female polytechnic students on the dangers of cohabitation / Gbenga-Akibola Abosede Oluranti and Badekale Mojisola; title: Empowering rural women through theater: the case of selected communities in lagos / Tunji Azeez; title: Tutoring children of immigrants in a multicultural context: a case study / Esther Some-Guiebre; title: 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; title: Gender and higher education in Africa / Janet Nasambu Kassilly Barasa; title: Nigerian women in politics: a study of the role of women in President Obasanjo's administration, 1999-2003 / Lewu Alaba Yetunde.