African Women Writing Resistance: An Anthology of Contemporary Voices

The thirty-one African-born contributors to this book move beyond the linked dichotomies of victim/oppressor and victim/heroine to present their experiences of resistance in full complexity: they are at the forward edge of the tide of women’s empowerment that, at the start of the twenty-first century, is moving across the African continent. Contributions illuminate the effect […]

The thirty-one African-born contributors to this book move beyond the linked dichotomies of victim/oppressor and victim/heroine to present their experiences of resistance in full complexity: they are at the forward edge of the tide of women’s empowerment that, at the start of the twenty-first century, is moving across the African continent.

Contributions illuminate the effect on women of women’s poverty and lack of access to education, health care, credit, and political power; HIV/AIDS; female genital cutting; abuse of sharia law; armed conflict and rape as a weapon of war; displacement and exile; women’s oppressions within heterosexual relationships; resistant sexualities; intergenerational conflict and tensions between tradition and modernity. http://fahamubooks.org