Transatlantic Feminisms: Women and Gender Studies in Africa and the Diaspora - Paperback

by Cheryl R. Rodriguez (Editor), Dzodzi Tsikata (Editor), Akosua Adomako Ampofo (Editor)

Transatlantic Feminisms examines the gendered complexities of African and African diaspora worlds. This book includes striking accounts of women's strategies to challenge, circumvent, or manage threats to their survival from such forces as patriarchal political regimes, militarism and violence, migration, displacement, and unrelenting poverty.

Author Biography

Cheryl Rodriguez is chair of the Department of Africana Studies and director of the Institute on Black Life at the University of South Florida. Dzodzi Tsikata is associate professor at the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research (ISSER) at the University of Ghana. Akosua Adomako Ampofo is professor of African and gender studies and director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana.