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Gendering global transformations : gender, culture, race, and identity
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Gendering global transformations : gender, culture, race, and identity

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"Most of the papers in this volume were initially presented at the second international conference of the Transatlantic Research Group ... from July 28-30, 2006 at the Alvan Ikoku College of Education, Owerri, Nigeria"--Acknowledgments.

Contents

Introduction: revisiting gender, culture, race, and Identity in a globalizing world / Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika and Chima J. Korieh
Building solidarities for human rights: diasporic women as agents of transformation / Faye V. Harrison
Wangari Maathai: Nobel laureate, Environmentalist, and engagement with the Kenya state / Eudora Chikwendu
Cookbooks, cuisine, nationalisms: a study of national cuisine, nation building, and gender formation through black nationalist discourse / Patricia E. Clark
Civilizing the savage: toward a cross-cultural dialogue of human rights and reproductive self-determination for women in developing countries / Obijiofor Aginam
The United States media and Caribbean gender relations / Jerome Teelucksingh
Soothing the wounds of the nation: Otomo women performing Ateetee in exile / Martha Kuwee Kumsa
Understanding spirituality and models of black women's creative endeavors as a source of creative empowerment / Hannah Chukwu
The dark side of the feminine: Pomba Gira spirits in Brazil / Kelly E. Hayes
Building bridges and shifting frontiers: ender, culture, and shifting identity in Buchi Emecheta's Kehinde and the new tribe / Ijeoma C. Nwajiaku
Home-sweet-home, but exactly where? African women's immigration and the challenge of establishing selves / Philomina Okeke-Ihejirika
Making links between each others' oppressions: witch-hunts, colonialism, and globalization across diasporas / Ursula Troche
Gender transformation in war and peace: the Sierra Leone experience / Aisha Fofana Ibrahim
UN security council resolution 1325, gender, and transitional justice / Christina Binder,... [et al.]
Discourses on race and gender in South Africa's transition process: a challenging liaison / Beatrix Schwarzer
Women's labor and identity in transitional societies: a case of rural Tanzania / Elinami Swai.

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