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Confronting entrenched social inequality and inadequate access to
resources, women across Africa are working with determination and
imagination to improve their material conditions and to blaze a
clear path for their daughters and granddaughters. The thirty-one
African-born contributors to this book move beyond the linked
dichotomies of victim/oppressor and victim/heroine to present their
experiences of resistance in full complexity: they are at the
forward edge of the tide of women's empowerment that, at the start
of the twenty-first century, is moving across the African
continent. Contributions illuminate the effect on women of women's
poverty and lack of access to education, health care, credit, and
political power; HIV/AIDS; female genital cutting; Sharia law;
armed conflict and rape as a weapon of war; displacement and exile;
women's oppressions within heterosexual relationships; resistant
sexualities; intergenerational conflict and tensions between
tradition and modernity.
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