African Women Writing Resistance Paperback Book 9780857490209

Confronting entrenched social inequality and inadequate access to resources women across Africa are working with determination and imagination to improve their material conditions and to blaze a clear path for their daughters and granddaughters The thirtyone Africanborn contributors to this book move beyond the linked dichotomies of victimoppressor and victimheroine to present their experiences of resistance in full complexity they are at the forward edge of the tide of womens empowerment that at the start of the twentyfirst century is moving across the African continent Contributions illuminate the effect on women of womens poverty and lack of access to education health care credit and political power HIVAIDS female genital cutting Sharia law armed conflict and rape as a weapon of war displacement and exile womens oppressions within heterosexual relationships resistant sexualities intergenerational conflict and tensions between tradition and modernity