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African Philosophy, Culture, and Traditional Medicine

Book by M. Akin Makinde; Ohio University Center for International Studies, 1988

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Africa, Sub-Saharan--Civilization, Philosophy, African, Traditional Medicine--Africa, Sub-Saharan

Collections: Philosophy, Entire Library

...effects of a certain destructive traditional medicine ogun used by people...three robbers, two men and a woman. The three robbers forgot...on the ground so that the woman walks over it without the...then removed to prevent other women from catching the dangerous...eradicator of adultery in African village communities. However...
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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

...of Concerned African Women Theologians. Pemberton...Groaning in Faith: African Women in the Household of God...Christina Landman. South African Academy of Religion...of Concerned African Women Theologians. Pemberton...Women in African Traditional Religions. Groaning...
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In and out of Our Right Minds: The Mental Health of African American Women

Book by Diane R. Brown, Verna M. Keith; Columbia University Press, 2003

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African American Women--Mental Health

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...living environments. African American women and their families...persistent concern for many African American women centers...city neighborhoods. African American women are...African American women. Traditional psychiatry, however...
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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

...perspectives on psychotherapy with African American women. Traditional psychodynamic approaches are...theories that under- lie traditional psychodynamic approaches focus...replicating the shortcomings of traditional psychodynamic psycho- therapy...
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Race, Gender, and Leadership: Re-Envisioning Organizational Leadership from the Perspectives of African American Women Executives

Book by Patricia S. Parker; Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

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African American Women Executives, African American Women In The Professions, Leadership In Women--United States

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...which introduced its women as leaders series in...includes no examples of African American women leaders. More conspicuously, African American women are virtually...but not limited to, African American women. The...American women from both traditional and feminist studies...

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Journal Articles on: african women traditional

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The Paradox of Women in Zimbabwe: Emancipation, Liberation, and Traditional African Values

Journal article by Deborah S. Ballard-Reisch, Paaige K. Turner, Marcia Sarratea; Women and Language, Vol. 24, 2001

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Feminism--Zimbabwe, Sex discrimination against women--Zimbabwe, Women's rights--Zimbabwe, Zimbabwe--Social aspects

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...Zimbabwe. Emancipate Women While Liberating...Returning to Traditional African Values The national...emancipation of women. (Robert Mugabe...Smith. Indigenous Africans immediately organized...and a return to traditional values meant independence...the country and women. In response...armies, the Zimbabwe African National Union...
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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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...organization for African American women...that sheltered African American juvenile...African American women everywhere. (30) "No Negro woman can afford to...The belief in women working toward...degrading status of African Americans in...African American women rejected racist...women reinforced traditional female roles...
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We Belong Here, Too: Accommodating African Muslim Feminism in African Feminist Theory Via Zaynab Alkali's the Virtuous Woman and the Cobwebs and Other Stories

Journal article by Shirin Edwin; Frontiers - A Journal of Women's Studies, Vol. 27, 2006

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A Virtuous Woman (Novel)--Criticism and interpretation, African women writers--Criticism and interpretation, African women writers--Works, Alkali, Zaynab--Criticism and interpretation, Alkali, Zaynab--Works, Feminism--Analysis, The Cobwebs and Other Stories (Short fiction collection)--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors, African--Criticism and interpretation, Women authors, African--Works

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...Too: Accommodating African Muslim Feminism in African...problems facing African women. Central to the argument...and choices of African women. (1) Within the limits...relationship between Islam and women in Nigerian novelist Zaynab Alkalis The Virtuous Woman (1987) and The Cobwebs...usurped the place of traditional religions. (2) Therefore...
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Potential Stressors Contributing to Eating Disorder Symptoms in African American Women: Implications for Mental Health Counselors

Journal article by Regine M. Talleyrand; Journal of Mental Health Counseling, Vol. 28, 2006

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African American women--Food and nutrition, African American women--Psychological aspects, Eating disorders--Care and treatment, Eating disorders--Social aspects, Mental health counselors--Practice, Psychiatric counselors--Practice

Collections: Psychology, Entire Library

...diverse populations of women presenting with...For example, an African American woman who internalizes...information related to how African American women identify with their...African American woman uses when confronted...and body image in African American women. Unpublished doctoral...1994). Woman of color: Integrating...
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Overcoming the Odds: Challenges and Successes of Sub-Saharan African Women Seeking Higher Education in the United States

Journal article by Mary Wairimu Gatua; Adult Learning, Vol. 20, 2009

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African students--Education, Graduate study--Analysis, Narratives--Analysis, Universities and colleges--Analysis, Universities and colleges--Graduate work, Women--Education

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...journey as an African woman, a doctoral...other African women that pursuit...studies for African women in a foreign...children. To some women, it is a necessary...first African woman to win the Nobel...was the first woman in East and...despairing women of Africa...struggles that African women continue...societal and traditional barriers. Transformative...

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Magazine Articles on: african women traditional

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Women of Merit: Tunisia Is a Different Arab Country as Far as Women's Emancipation Is Concerned. since Independence in 1956, the Country Has Worked Tirelessly to Move Women from the Traditional Subservient Role to Their Current Status of Partnership with Men. It Is an Example to Other Countries

Magazine article; New African, December 2010

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Domestic violence--Management, Family violence--Management, Muslim women--Civil rights, Muslim women--Political activity, Sexual harassment--Laws, regulations and rules, Tunisia--Political aspects, Tunisia--Religious aspects, Tunisia--Social aspects, Women, Muslim--Civil rights, Women, Muslim--Political activity

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...World Association of Women Entrepreneurs. Two years...recipient of the World Women Organisation 2010 prize...other Tunisian or Arab woman. I never lose sight...imbued with our noble traditional values ... The family...edifice." The Tunisian woman has truly arrived, and...Governments target for women, by 2014: To increase...
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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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New African Woman Is Born: Due...Demand, New African Woman, Which Has Been Running...Okafor The New African Woman (NAW) is not only...for the discerning woman", NAW launches into...pertaining to black women, particularly those...need - contemporary and traditional," says Afif Ben Yedder...
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What Black Women Need to Know about Breast Cancer: Disease in Younger African-American Women Is Likely to Be More Aggressive

Magazine article by Joy Bennett Kinnon; Ebony, Vol. 61, October 2006

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African American women--Health aspects, Breast cancer--Care and treatment, Breast cancer--Risk factors

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What Black Women Need to Know...Disease in Younger African-American Women...all been the traditional explanations...says. "Most African-American women get this form...particularly more African-American women; and develop...
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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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...Portuguese-speaking African countries--Mozambique...incidentally, by many Africans. In what concerns...countrymen, now women still feel "marginalised" within African "marginalisation...asked by a Canadian woman journalist...Central Bank, are women--thus giving...future, the new woman prime minister...that cocoa, the traditional mainstay of Sao...its benefit for Africans is better used...
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Unduplicated Success: Named CEO of Xerox, Ursula M. Burns Is Making History as the First African American Woman to Run One of the World's Largest Corporations. Now, She's Reshaping the Company and, in the Process, Proving That Its Business Formula Is One of a Kind

Magazine article by Sonia Alleyne; Black Enterprise, Vol. 40, February 2010

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African American women--Rankings, Businesswomen--Rankings

Collections: History, Entire Library

...History as the First African American Woman to Run One of the Worlds...stage was set for both women to rise to unprecedented...first African American woman to hold the position...was replaced by another woman at the highest corporate...Giscombe, vice president of Women of Color Research for...

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Newspaper Articles on: african women traditional

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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

...Working in a West African Village, and Forged...Future of Mali-Born Women Main Photograph...the most educated woman in town. The village...apprenticeship with traditional midwives, she had...country where one woman in 22 dies in pregnancy...surface a naked woman pushed. Moniques...nutrition with the women who came to the...
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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

...Working in a West African Village, and Forged...Future of Mali-Born Women Main Photograph...the most educated woman in town. The village...apprenticeship with traditional midwives, she had...country where one woman in 22 dies in pregnancy...surface a naked woman pushed. Moniques...nutrition with the women who came to the...
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Therapist Died Af Ter Eating Root in African Cult Ritual; Woman, 32, Has Heart Attack Trying 'Alternative Therapy'

Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), January 28, 2011

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

...Therapist Died Af Ter Eating Root in African Cult Ritual; Woman, 32, Has Heart Attack Trying Alternative...there, he said. It Iboga is used by traditional healers called shamans for therapeutic...as their reactions are different to Africans who use it regularly from a young age...
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ARTS DIARY: Variety and Passion of Women Dancers; Afro-American Company Full of Drama

Newspaper article; Daily Post (Liverpool, England), November 28, 2007

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African Americans

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

...Variety and Passion of Women Dancers; Afro...the work of the African American dance company Urban Bush Women. As the title suggests...by a remarkable woman, Jawole Willa Jo...and a variety of traditional music backed movements...Forte, portrayed a woman in ordinary settings...uk Urban Bush Women - provided a night...
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Stage Trails Black Women West

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, September 19, 2005

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African Americans

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

...Most of the settlers were traditional families, but by 1890, a...a million single or widowed women were running their own farms...smoking, cowboy-booted women who were as ornery and land...possesses the vigor and wits of a woman half her age. "Flyin West" is a women-driven show that does not...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: african women traditional

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Emecheta, Buchi

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...England and wrote novels about the struggles of African women moving from traditional to modern roles in societies where men have little...Nigeria and are highly critical of the treatment of African women. These include The Bride Price (1976), the...
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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

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

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...father of sub-Saharan African cinema. He left school...and to develop a truly African style. He soon turned...the lives of ordinary Africans, treat womens stories...Western narrative and traditional African storytelling to follow...concern for African women. See F. Pfaff, The...
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American Art

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...American sculpture produced works in traditional styles during the 1920s and 30s...contemporary art ). The ascendancy of women and minority artists since the...an awareness of stereotypes of African-American women has informed drawings and installations...
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Quilting

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

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

...almost always created by women, most of them anonymous...phenomenon. Dozens of traditional patchwork patterns have...ornamental needlework. Traditional African-American quilts have...Contemporary Quilts from Traditional Patterns (1988...

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