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Books on: african women

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Circle Thinking: African Women Theologians in Dialogue with the West

Book by Carrie Pemberton; Brill, 2003

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Africa, Sub-Saharan--Church History, Church Work With Women--Africa, Sub-Saharan, Circle Of Concerned African Women Theologians, Theology, Doctrinal--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History, Women In Christianity--Africa, Sub-Saharan, Women Theologians--Africa, Sub-Saharan--History--20th Century

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...Conference of the Circle of Concerned African Women Theologians. Pemberton, C...New Roles, New Challenges for African Women. Towards Compassion. Fabella...1990b). The Context of African Women Theology. Women and Culture...
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Psychotherapy with African American Women: Innovations in Psychodynamic Perspectives and Practice

Book by Leslie C. Jackson, Beverly Greene; Guilford Press, 2000

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African American Women--Mental Health, African American Women--Psychology, Psychodynamic Psychotherapy

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...absolutes about every African American lesbian or bisexual woman. African American lesbians and bisexual women share cultural origins...heterogeneity of African women notwithstanding...lesbians and bisexual women share African cultural derivatives...
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African American Women and the Vote, 1837-1965

Book by Ann D. Gordon, Bettye Collier-Thomas; University of Massachusetts Press, 1997

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African American Women Social Reformers--History, African American Women--Political Activity--History, African Americans--Suffrage--History, Suffragists--United States--History, Women--Suffrage--United States--History

Collections: History, Entire Library

...on the part of black women, which is often the...of newly emancipated African women, Brown moves away...more sense to locate the women first in their cultures...understand the choices these women have made, rather than...political power wielded by African American women. It is...
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Bearing Witness: Contemporary Works by African American Women Artists

Book by Jontyle Theresa Robinson; Rizzoli International Publications, 1996

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African American Women Artists--Exhibitions, Art, Modern--20th Century--United States--Exhibitions

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...carving and smithing, women made pottery for domestic...however, not only did African American women artists...mediums on the part of African American women can also be seen as...similar to that of African American women artists who work in...
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Inner Lives: Voices of African American Women in Prison

Book by Paula C. Johnson; New York University Press, 2003

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African American Prisoners--Biography, African American Prisoners--Interviews, Discrimination In Criminal Justice Administration--United States, Women Prisoners--United States--Biography, Women Prisoners--United States--Interviews

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...ones status as a woman of African descent. In 1662...Whites and men and women of African descent...African American women, the 1662 act provided...Englishman upon a Negro woman shall be bond or...while women of African descent were tithable...persons. Black women were treated just...formerly enslaved woman named Elizabeth...

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Journal Articles on: african women

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A Visitation from the Foremothers: Black Women's Healing through a 'Performance of Care'-From African Diaspora to the American Academy

Journal article by Olga Idriss Davis; Women's Studies in Communication, Vol. 31, 2008

Subjects:

Academia--Demographic aspects, African American college faculty--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, African American college faculty--Psychological aspects, African American college faculty--Social aspects, African American college teachers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, African American college teachers--Psychological aspects, African American college teachers--Social aspects, African diaspora--Psychological aspects, African diaspora--Social aspects, Black women--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Black women--Psychological aspects, Black women--Social aspects, Women, Black--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Women, Black--Psychological aspects, Women, Black--Social aspects

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...links among Black women worldwide enabling...asks: Can any African American woman thrive in a predominantly...there space for African American women in predominantly...sometimes even the women themselves...and American, woman and Black female...
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A Visitation from the Foremothers: Black Women's Healing through a 'performance of Care'-from African Diaspora to the American Academy

Journal article by Olga Idriss Davis; Women's Studies in Communication, Vol. 31, 2008

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Affirmative action, African Americans, Colleges & universities, Women

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...links among Black women worldwide enabling...asks: Can any African American woman thrive in a predominantly...there space for African American women in predominantly...sometimes even the women themselves...and American, woman and Black female...
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Marriage among African American Women: A Gender Perspective

Journal article by Shirley A. Hill; Journal of Comparative Family Studies, Vol. 37, 2006

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African American women--Psychological aspects, African American women--Social aspects, Marriage--Influence

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...Allowing enslaved Africans to experience the gratifications...full responsibility for African American family characteristics...and economic roles for women were African characteristics...Decline in Marriage Among African Americans, ed. M...Penn, Rosalyn 1986 "Women and slavery in the African...Scholarly Journal on Black Women 3:11-15. Woman? Female Slaves in the...
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Doing More Than Heads: African American Women Healing, Resisting, and Uplifting Others in St. Petersburg, Florida

Journal article by Evelyn Newman Phillips; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 22, 2001

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African American women--Behavior, Community service--Social aspects, Community services--Social aspects, Williams, Edna--Behavior, Yopp, Marie--Behavior

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...an organization for African American women founded in 1908 at Howard...institutions that sheltered African American juvenile delinquents...activism of African American women everywhere. (30) "No Negro woman can afford to be an indifferent...31) The belief in women working toward the common...
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Having Our Say: African American Women, Diversity, and Counseling

Journal article by Rhonda M. Bryant, Angela D. Coker, Beth A. Durodoye, Vivian J. Mccollum, Sherlon P. Pack-Brown, Madonna G. Constantine, Beverly J. O'Bryant; Journal of Counseling and Development, Vol. 83, 2005

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African American women teachers--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, African American women teachers--Social aspects, Colonization--Analysis

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...and strong-willed African American woman whose contempt of African...by African American women. However, because...a positive trait for African American women. This behavior can...to African American women is anger, hence the...phrase "the angry Black woman." Internalization...

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Magazine Articles on: african women

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What about the Women?

Magazine article by Antonio De Figueiredo; New African, January 2003

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Africans--Political aspects, Africans--Social aspects, Colonization--Social aspects, International relations--Social aspects, Manners and customs--Criticism and interpretation, Women in politics--Criticism and interpretation, Women's rights--Political aspects, Women's rights--Social aspects, Women--Political aspects, Women--Social aspects

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...Africa towards Kenyan or South African tourist attractions, also...five Portuguese-speaking African countries--Mozambique...including, incidentally, by many Africans. In what concerns women...and fellow countrymen, now women still feel "marginalised" within African "marginalisation. Even I...balance when asked by a Canadian woman journalist: "And what about...
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Medical Movers & Shakers: African-American Women Are on the Front Lines of Improving Health Care

Magazine article by Shirley Henderson; Ebony, Vol. 61, October 2006

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African American women--Educational aspects, African American women--Forecasts and trends, Medical students--Forecasts and trends

Collections: Education, Entire Library

Medical Movers Shakers: African-American Women Are on the Front Lines of...could mean, especially for women living in African countries where the disease...organizations around the country, African-American women continue to make a substantial...
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New African Woman Is Born: Due to Popular Demand, New African Woman, Which Has Been Running as a Regular Supplement in New African since July 2008, Has This Month Been Launched as a Stand-Alone 100-Page Quarterly Magazine in Both English and French, the First Time Ever That a Magazine Has Been Launched Simultaneously in the Two Languages, and to Cover the Whole Continent

Magazine article by Ogo Okafor; New African, May 2009

Subjects:

Black women--Appreciation, New African Woman (Periodical)--Management, Periodicals--Management, Women, Black--Appreciation

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...affecting continental African women or those living outside...American or Caribbean women market. Our new magazine...editor of New African Woman, is also passionate...diverse beauty of the African woman with the respect it...topics, which many women (and some men) will...
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Do Good, Get Rich: Social Warriors Start Businesses That Improve the Lives of African Women

Magazine article by Elaine Lee; Black Enterprise, Vol. 38, May 2008

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Africans--Economic aspects, Africans--Social aspects, Microfinance--Social aspects, Women--Economic aspects, Women--Social aspects

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...Businesses That Improve the Lives of African Women. by Elaine Lee ILLUSTRATION...uplifting and empowering indigenous African women through business. Her life...making classes at her store for African refugee women in Salt Lake City. Her long...
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Say No to Sexual Objectification Full Stop! It Is Not Positive Stories of Black Women from the Past and Present That Need to Be Told. Robert Cooper Asks New African Women to Champion the Issue of Self-Worth and to Help Stop the Oversexualisation of Black Women. "The World Should Say Full Stop to Sexually Objectifying Our Sisters," He Writes

Magazine article by Robert Cooper; New African, October 2008

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African Americans, Black women, Women, Black

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...Told. Robert Cooper Asks New African Women to Champion the Issue of Self...Oversexualisation of Black Women. "The World Should Say Full...sexually objectifying Black women has become a typical and common...Saartjie Baartman, the Khoisan woman treatment at the hands of...beautiful and "normal" than Africans. They gave her the derogatory...

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Newspaper Articles on: african women

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How Could This White Housewife's Identity Be Stolen and Used in a Passport by an African Woman for 15 Years?

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 21, 2011

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False personation, Impersonation (Fraud), Passports, Theft, Working women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Stolen and Used in a Passport by an African Woman for 15 Years? Byline: James Tozer...their obvious differences, the African woman was able to spend 15 years...years younger than me. She is of African appearance and I am not. How she...
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Incontinence African Scourge; Lack of Medical Care Turns Girls, Women into Pariahs

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, June 17, 2007

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Health care industry, Urinary incontinence, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

Incontinence African Scourge; Lack of Medical Care...in a stillbirth. Affected women, many of whom are teenagers...of five Ethiopian girls and women with obstetric fistulas and...societies where a poor diet causes women to have smaller bodies. An...persistent drip of urine that a woman suffering from the preventable...
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Monique's LABOUR OF LOVE; at 22, Kris Holloway Left New York to Spend Two Years Working in a West African Village, and Forged a Deep Friendship with a Young Midwife. Here She Pays Tribute to Monique Dembele's Joie De Vivre, Her Courage in the Face of Relentless Hardships and Her Determination to Transform the Future of Mali-Born Women Main Photograph TSAR FEDORSKY

Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), May 1, 2011

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Holloway, Kris--Appreciation, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Years Working in a West African Village, and Forged...Future of Mali-Born Women Main Photograph TSAR...was the most educated woman in town. The village...in a country where one woman in 22 dies in pregnancy...scrubbed surface a naked woman pushed. Moniques hands...about nutrition with the women who came to the clinic...
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Monique's LABOUR OF LOVE; at 22, Kris Holloway Left New York to Spend Two Years Working in a West African Village, and Forged a Deep Friendship with a Young Midwife. Here She Pays Tribute to Monique Dembele's Joie De Vivre, Her Courage in the Face of Relentless Hardships and Her Determination to Transform the Future of Mali-Born Women Main Photograph TSAR FEDORSKY

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), April 30, 2011

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Holloway, Kris--Appreciation, Women

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Years Working in a West African Village, and Forged...Future of Mali-Born Women Main Photograph TSAR...was the most educated woman in town. The village...in a country where one woman in 22 dies in pregnancy...scrubbed surface a naked woman pushed. Moniques hands...about nutrition with the women who came to the clinic...
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First Time Peace Prize Is Won by African Woman

Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), October 9, 2004

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Maathai, Wangari

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...First Time Peace Prize Is Won by African Woman. Byline: Lauren Taylor Kenyan...Wangari Maathai became the first African woman to win the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday...Movement, which has sought to empower women, better the environment and fight...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african women

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African Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...ceremonies to show the importance of women. The Baule of Cote dIvoire...wax) process found in many W African regions. They portray human...and spontaneity unusual in African art. Many are associated with...figures, are the earliest African sculpture yet found (c.500...
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South African War

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...1899 1902, war of the South African Republic (Transvaal) and...commissioner for their South African territories, determined upon...scorched-earth policy. Boer women and children were herded into...perhaps 20,000 or more black Africans also died. Thousands of farms...Black People and the South African War, 1899 1902 (1983...
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Woman Suffrage

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

WOMAN SUFFRAGE the right of women to vote. Throughout...declaration of the rights of women prepared by Elizabeth...newly emancipated African-American men but not to the women who had helped win...vote. The National Woman Suffrage Association...
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Sembene, Ousmane

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the father of sub-Saharan African cinema. He left school at...audience and to develop a truly African style. He soon turned to...explore the lives of ordinary Africans, treat womens stories and...narrative and traditional African storytelling to follow a young...profound concern for African women. See F. Pfaff, The Cinema...
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Aidoo, Ama Ata

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...A., 1964). Combining traditional African storytelling with Western genres, she writes of the contemporary roles of African women and the negative impact of Western influences on African culture. Her first play, The Dilemma...

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