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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 order by most recent)
Genocide Lives in Us
Women, Memory, and Silence in Rwanda
Jennie E. Burnet
August 2012
African Women Writing Resistance
An Anthology of Contemporary Voices
Edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Pauline Dongala, Omotayo Jolaosho, and Anne Serafin
August 2010
Rising Anthills
An Anthology of Contemporary Voices
African and African American Writing on Female Genital Excision, 1960–2000
August 2010
Embodying Honor
Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan
Amal Hassan Fadlalla
October 2007
Gossip,
Markets, and Gender
How Dialogue Constructs Moral Value in Post-Socialist Kilimanjaro
Tuulikki Pietilä
March 2007
Women's Organizations and Democracy
in South Africa
Contesting Authority
Shireen Hassim
June 2006
Engaging
Modernity
Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger
Ousseina Alidou
November 2005
Tired of
Weeping
Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau
Jónína Einarsdóttir
January 2005
Surviving the Slaughter
The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire
Marie Béatrice Umutesi
Translated by Julia Emerson
November 2004
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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