Women in Africa and the African diaspora / edited by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, Sharon Harley, Andrea Benton Rushing.

Includes papers presented at the meeting, Women in the African Diaspora: an Interdisciplinary Perspective, sponsored by the Association of Black Women Historians, and held June 12-14, 1983 at Howard University.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

African feminism : a worldwide perspective / Filomina Chioma Steady -- "The status of women" in indigenous African societies / Niara Sudarkasa -- African feminism : a theoretical approach to the history of women in the African diaspora / Rosalyn Terborg-Penn -- Anthropological research methods for the study of black women in the Caribbean / A. Lynn Bolles -- Psychological research methods : women in the African diaspora / Saundra Rice Murray -- Privilege without power : women in African cults and churches / Bennetta Jules-Rosette -- Afro-American women missionaries confront the African way of life / Sylvia M. Jacobs -- Extended family involvement and roles of urban Kenyan women / Harriette Pipes McAdoo and Miriam Were -- African diaspora women : the making of cultural workers / Bernice Johnson Reagon -- The black female presence in black francophone literature / Karen Smyley Wallace -- God's divas : women singers in Africa-American poetry / Andrea Benton Rushing -- Images of black women in New World literature : a comparative approach / Martha K. Cobb -- Conclusion : research priorities for the study of women in Africa and the African diaspora / Sharon Harley.

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