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Author:   Ifi Amadiume (Dartmouth College, USA) ,  Ifi Amadiume (Dartmouth College USA)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Zed Books Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 21.40cm
Weight:   0.300kg
ISBN:  

9781350509085

ISBN 10:   1350509086
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   19 February 2026
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Foreword to the Essential Amadiume Edition 1. Introduction. 2. African Women: Present Realities and Which Way Forward? 3. A History of Class Transformations: Contemporary Women's Organizations in Nigeria. 4. Class Contestation in NCWS and Other National Women's Organizations. 5. Class and Gender Dynamics in Professional Women's Organizations: Rhetoric and Practice. 6. Gender and Class in Campaigns and Civil Discourse. 7. Class and Gender in Child Abuse. 8. Women's Healthcare and Discourses on Reproductive Health. 9. Gender, Class and Voices: Women and the 1986 National Political Debate. 10. Women in Local Government: A Comparison. 11. Gendering Grassroots Democracy: The Women's Committee System. 12. Class Corruption and Women's Mobilization: The Cult of the First Lady. 13. The Politics of Women's Committees in a Multicultural and Multiethnic Society: Lessons from Britain and South Africa. 14. Conclusion.

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Ifi Amadiume is an award-winning poet and a political activist as well as an academic. She has lived in Nigeria and the UK and is currently associate professor at Dartmouth College, USA. There, she teaches in both the Department of Religion and the African-American Studies Programme.

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