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Stepping Forward » (New Edition)
Authors: Catherine Higgs (Editor), Barbara A. Moss (Editor), Earline Rae Ferguson
ISBN-13: 9780821414569, ISBN-10: 0821414569
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Ohio University Press
Date Published: November 2002
Edition: New Edition
Author Biography: Catherine Higgs
Book Synopsis
Table of Contents
| List of Maps | ||
| List of Tables | ||
| Introduction | ||
| Ch. 1 | British Colonial Policy toward Education and the Roots of Gender Inequality in Sierra Leone, 1896-1961 | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Agency and Constructions of Professional Identity: African American Women Educators in the Rural South | 17 |
| Ch. 3 | The Search for Anna Erskine: African American Women in Nineteenth-Century Liberia | 31 |
| Ch. 4 | Image and Representation: Black Women in Historical Accounts of Colonial Jamaica | 44 |
| Ch. 5 | Helping Ourselves: Black Women and Grassroots Activism in Segregated South Africa, 1922-1952 | 59 |
| Ch. 6 | African American Clubwomen and the Indianapolis NAACP, 1912-1914 | 73 |
| Ch. 7 | Witchcraft, Women, and Taxes in the Transkei, South Africa, 1930-1963 | 87 |
| Ch. 8 | "Mwen na rien, Msieu": Jamaica Kincaid and the Problem of a Creole Gnosis | 100 |
| Ch. 9 | No Place to Call Home: Refugee and Internally Displaced Women in Kenya | 117 |
| Ch. 10 | "The Sisters and Mothers Are Called to the City": African American Women and an Even Greater Migration | 129 |
| Ch. 11 | Mai Chaza and the Politics of Motherhood in Colonial Zimbabwe | 143 |
| Ch. 12 | Standing Their Ground: Black Women's Sacred Daily Life | 158 |
| Ch. 13 | Gender and Political Struggle in Kenya, 1948-1998 | 173 |
| Ch. 14 | "The lady folk is a doer": Women and the Civil Rights Movement in Claiborne County, Mississippi | 189 |
| Ch. 15 | Strategies for Survival by Luo Female Artists in the Rural Environment in Kenya | 205 |
| Ch. 16 | Wild and Holy Women in the Poetry of Brenda Marie Osbey | 227 |
| Ch. 17 | Owning What We Know: Racial Controversies in South African Feminism, 1991-1998 | 245 |
| Ch. 18 | Decolonizing Culture: The Media, Black Women, and Law | 257 |
| Notes | 271 | |
| Contributors | 313 | |
| Index | 317 |
Subjects
African Americans
African American History African American History - Social Aspects
African Americans African American History General & Miscellaneous African American History
History African History General African History
History African American History African American History
History American History United States History - African American History
History American History United States History - General & Miscellaneous
History World History Women's History
Nonfiction Social Sciences African Studies
Nonfiction All Nonfiction African Studies
Science & Nature Social Sciences African Studies
Social Sciences African Studies General African History
Social Sciences Women's Studies Women's History
Women's Studies Women's History Women's History - Africa, Sub - Saharan
Women's Studies Women's History Women's History - Latin America & the Caribbean
Women's Studies Women's History Women's History - U.S. - General & Miscellaneous
Nonfiction History African History
Nonfiction History African American History
Nonfiction History American History
Nonfiction History World History
African American History African American History - Social AspectsAfrican Americans
African American History General & Miscellaneous African American HistoryHistory
African History General African HistoryHistory
African American History African American HistoryHistory
American History United States History - African American HistoryHistory
American History United States History - General & MiscellaneousHistory
World History Women's HistoryNonfiction
Social Sciences African StudiesNonfiction
All Nonfiction African StudiesScience & Nature
Social Sciences African StudiesSocial Sciences
African Studies General African HistorySocial Sciences
Women's Studies Women's HistoryWomen's Studies
Women's History Women's History - Africa, Sub - SaharanWomen's Studies
Women's History Women's History - Latin America & the CaribbeanWomen's Studies
Women's History Women's History - U.S. - General & MiscellaneousNonfiction
History African HistoryNonfiction
History African American HistoryNonfiction
History American HistoryNonfiction
History World History
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