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Women in Africa and the Diaspora

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 UW Press Editor in Chief Dan Crissman.

 

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Shaping Tradition
Women's Roles in Ceremonial Rituals of the Agwagune
David Uru Iyam
Fall 2021

Slave Trade and Abolition: Illustration of a tropical cove with a couple of sail boats floating on the blue water and white buildings lining the horizon.
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Slave Trade and Abolition
Gender, Commerce, and Economic Transition in Luanda
Vanessa S. Oliveira
Fall 2022

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Holding the World Together
African Women in Changing Perspective
Edited by Nwando Achebe and Claire Robertson
Fall 2021

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Silenced Resistance
Women, Dictatorships, and Genderwashing in Western Sahara and Equatorial Guinea
Joanna Allan
Spring 2019

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Claiming Civic Virtue
Gendered Network Memory in the Mara Region, Tanzania
Jan Bender Shetler
Spring 2019

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I Am Evelyn Amony
Reclaiming My Life from the Lord’s Resistance Army
Evelyn Amony
Edited with an introduction by Erin Baines

Fall 2015

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Gendering Ethnicity in African Women’s Lives
Edited by Jan Bender Shetler
Spring 2015

Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya
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Muslim Women in Postcolonial Kenya
Leadership, Representation, and Social Change
Ousseina D. Alidou
Fall 2013

Genocide Lives in Us
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Genocide Lives in Us
Women, Memory, and Silence in Rwanda
Jennie E. Burnet
Spring 2012

2015 Honorable Mention, Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize; 2013 Winner, Elliott P. Skinner Book Award; 2013 Finalist, Melville J. Herskovits Award

Rising Anthills
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Rising Anthills
African and African American Writing on Female Genital Excision, 1960–2000
Elisabeth Bekers
Spring 2010

African Women Writing Resistance
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African Women Writing Resistance
An Anthology of Contemporary Voices
Edited by Jennifer Browdy de Hernandez, Pauline Dongala, Omotayo Jolaosho, and Anne Serafin
Spring 2010

Embodying Honor
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Embodying Honor
Fertility, Foreignness, and Regeneration in Eastern Sudan
Amal Hassan Fadlalla
Fall 2007

Gossip, Markets, and Gender
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Gossip, Markets, and Gender
How Dialogue Constructs Moral Value in Post-Socialist Kilimanjaro
Tuulikki Pietilä
Fall 2006

2009 Winner, Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize

Engaging Modernity
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Engaging Modernity
Muslim Women and the Politics of Agency in Postcolonial Niger
Ousseina D. Alidou
Fall 2005

2007 Runner-up, Aidoo-Snyder Book Prize

Women’s Organizations and Democracy in South Africa
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Women’s Organizations and Democracy in South Africa
Contesting Authority
Shireen Hassim
Fall 2005

2007 Winner, Victoria Schuck Award for Best Book on Women and Politics

Tired of Weeping
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Tired of Weeping
Mother Love, Child Death, and Poverty in Guinea-Bissau
Jónína Einarsdóttir
Fall 2004

Surviving the Slaughter
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Surviving the Slaughter
The Ordeal of a Rwandan Refugee in Zaire
Marie Béatrice Umutesi
Fall 2004