African Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood

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Oyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Africa World Press, 2003 - 273 pages

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Revisiting the Feminist
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African Women
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What Women Whose Development? A Critical
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About the author (2003)

Oyeronke Oyewumi is an associate professor of sociology at State University of New York at Stony Brook. Born in Nigeria, she was educated at the University of Ibadan and the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourse, which won a 1998 Distinguished Book Award of the American Sociological Association and was a finalist for the Herskovitts Prize of the African Studies Association in the same year.

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TitleAfrican Women and Feminism: Reflecting on the Politics of Sisterhood
EditorOyèrónkẹ́ Oyěwùmí
Editionreprint
PublisherAfrica World Press, 2003
Original fromthe University of California
Digitized15 Nov 2008
ISBN0865436274, 9780865436275
Length273 pages
  
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