African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
78 p., This documents the lack of access to reproductive and maternal care in post-earthquake Haiti, even with unprecedented availability of free healthcare services. The report also describes how hunger has led women to trade sex for food and how poor camp conditions exacerbate the impact of sexual violence because of difficulties accessing post-rape care. It looks at how recovery efforts have failed to adequately address the needs and rights of women and girls, particularly their rights to health and security.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
346 p., Ranging from the time of slavery and indentureship, to national independence in 1962 and the present day, this book shows how gender inequalities have been perpetuated for the benefit of exploitative systems from slavery to the present day. The book explores women's roles and activities both in colonial ideology and in reality.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
207 p., Fosters a dialogue across islands and languages between established and lesser-known authors, bringing together archipelagic and diasporic voices from the Francophone and Hispanic Antilles. In this pan-diasporic study, Ferly shows that a comparative analysis of female narratives is often most pertinent across linguistic zones.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
207 p., Fosters a dialogue across islands and languages between established and lesser-known authors, bringing together archipelagic and diasporic voices from the Francophone and Hispanic Antilles. In this pan-diasporic study, Ferly shows that a comparative analysis of female narratives is often most pertinent across linguistic zones.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
364 p, Contents: Introduction and theoretical considerations / Erika Bourguignon -- The contemporary Saudi woman / Sherri Deaver -- Women of Brunei / Linda A. Kimball -- Women's role in a Muslim Hausa town (Mirria, Republic of Niger) / Margaret O. Saunders -- Dioula women in town : a view of intra-ethnic variation (Ivory Coast) / Risa S. Ellovich -- Spirit magic in the social relations between men and women (São Paulo, Brazil) / Esther Pressel -- Spirit mediums in Umbanda Evangelizada of Porto Alegre, Brazil : dimensions of power and authority / Patricia Barker Lerch -- Sex and status : women in St. Vincent / Jeannette H. Henney -- Adaptive strategies and social networks of women in St. Kitts / Judith D. Gussler -- Women in Yucatán / Felicitas D. Goodman -- The uses of traditional concepts in the development of new urban roles : Cuban women in the United States / Margaret S. Boone -- The life of Sarah Penfield, rural Ohio grandmother : tradition maintained, tradition threatened / Rosemary Joyce -- The economic role of women in Alaskan Eskimo society / Lynn Price Ager -- Comparisons and implications : what have we learned? / Erika Bourguignon.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
218 p, Contents: Origins of the divestiture trope in selected literature of the African diaspora -- Diaspora as a trope for the existential condition -- Resonances of the African continent in selected fiction and non-fiction by Zora Neale Hurston -- Orphanage in Simone Schwarz-Bart's The bridge of beyond and Alice Walker's The third life of Grange Copeland -- Polyphonic texture of the trope "junkheaped" in Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Sociological implications of female abandonment in Buchi Emecheta's Second class citizen and The joys of motherhood -- Success phobia of Deighton Boyce in Paul Marshall's Brown girl, Brownstones -- Madness as a response to the female situation of disinheritance in Mariama Bâ's So long a letter and Scarlet song -- Exile of the elderly in Beryl Gilroy's Frangipani house and Boy-Sandwich -- Conclusion: abandonment as a trope for the human condition;
Berrian,Brenda F. (Author) and Broeck,Aart (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1989
Published:
Washington D.C.: Three Continents Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
360 p., First International Conference on the Women Writers of the English-speaking Caribbean, April 198. Lists creative works by 1067 women writers. Arranged into four sections
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
174 p., Reading the fiction of Jamaica Kincaid, Dionne Brand, Jean Rhys, Erna Brodber, and Michelle Cliff alongside British texts such as Dickens's Great Expectations and Bronte's Jane Eyre, Renk demonstrates how contemporary Anglophone Caribbean women's writing radically subverts the myth of the family as it is constructed in 19th century British and colonial texts. These women writers reconfigure Caribbean identity, family, and nation according to cross-cultural, trans-national and transtemporal paradigms.
