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Women in Africa and the Diaspora

Series Editors:
Stanlie M. James, Professor of African and African American Studies, Arizona State University
Aili Mari Tripp, Professor of Political Science and Women’s Studies, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Description | Contact information | Guidelines for submissions | Titles in series | Advisory board | Active series

The University of Wisconsin Press invites submissions of innovative book-length manuscripts to its book series on Women in Africa and the Diaspora, including women of African descent in the Americas. We invite manuscripts based on original research concerning women as political, economic, cultural and religious actors. We especially welcome interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary work that addresses questions and debates of broad theoretical, empirical, and methodological significance. Submissions that demonstrate the comparative implications of African and diasporic women’s experiences both across and beyond the continent are encouraged.

The Press is especially interested in topics such as women/gender and politics, religion, sexuality, law, human rights, health, the family, the environment, conflict resolution, race and ethnicity, women’s movements, feminism, and globalization. We are also soliciting manuscripts on women and authority, women as political and spiritual leaders, women’s knowledge and ways of knowing, and women healers. We are particularly interested in books on historic and contemporary transnational linkages between African American women and African women in the Diaspora more generally. Manuscripts on literature and popular culture, representation and identity construction, as well as autobiographies and biographies are also welcome.

Selection of manuscripts is based on the significance of the topic, quality of scholarship, clarity and style of presentation, and marketability.

Please send all inquiries to Gwen Walker, gcwalker@uwpress.wisc.edu

Guidelines for Submitting Manuscripts:
uwpress.wisc.edu/submissions.html

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Titles in the Women in Africa and the Diaspora series

(In alphabetical order by title)


Embodying Honor
Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan
Amal Hassan Fadlalla
ISBN 978-0-299-22380-9  Cloth
October 2007

Engaging Modernity
Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger
Ousseina Alidou
ISBN 978-0-299-21210-0  Cloth 
November 2005

Gossip, Markets, and Gender
How Dialogue Constructs Moral Value in Post-Socialist Kilimanjaro
Tuulikki Pietilä
ISBN 978-0-299-22090-7  Cloth 
March 2007

Surviving the Slaughter

The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire
Marie Béatrice Umutesi
Translated by Julia Emerson
ISBN 978-0-299-20490-7  Cloth 
ISBN 978-0-299-20494-5  Paper 
November 2004

Tired of Weeping
Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau
Jónína Einarsdóttir
ISBN 978-0-299-20130-2  Cloth 
ISBN 978-0-299-20134-0  Paper 
January 2005

Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa
Contesting Authority
Shireen Hassim
ISBN 978-0-299-21380-0  Cloth 
ISBN 978-0-299-21384-8  Paper 
June 2006

Advisory Board

Women in Africa


Sylvia Tamale (Law, Makerere University Uganda)
 
Nkiru Nzegwu (Philosophy and Art History, SUNY-Binghamton)

Nancy Hunt (History, University of Michigan)

Dorothy Hodgson (Anthropology, Rutgers University)

Amina Mama (African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town, South  Africa)

Filomena Steady (Africana Studies Department, Wellesley College)

 

African Women in the Diaspora

Carol Boyce Davies (Africana Studies, Florida International University)

Barbara Ransby (History, University of Illinois at Chicago)

Bonnie Thornton Dill (Women’s Studies, University of Maryland at
College Park)

Freida High Tesfagiorgis (Art History, Afro-American Studies,
University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Lynn Bolles (Women’s Studies, University of Maryland at College Park)

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