Introduction: Marianne is also Black / Felix Germain and Silyane Larcher -- Originaire women and political life in Senegal's four communes / Hilary Jones -- Christiane Taubira, a Black woman in politics in French Guiana and in France / Stephanie Guyon -- A passion for justice : the role of women in the Aliker case / Monique Milia-Marie-Luce -- French Caribbean feminism in the post-departmentalization era / Felix Germain -- The end of silence : on the revival of Afrofeminism in contemporary France / Silyane Larcher -- Gerty Archimède and the struggle for decolonial citizenship in the French Antilles, 1946-51 / Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel -- A Black woman's life in the struggle : Jean McNair in France / Tyler Stovall -- Am I my sister's keeper? The politics of propriety and the fight for equality in the works of French Antillean women writers, 1920s-40s / Jacqueline Couti -- Between respectability and resistance : French Caribbean women confronted by masculine domination during the second half of the twentieth century / Stephanie Mulot and Nadine Lefaucheur -- Media and the politics of "re-presentation" of the Black female body / Sarah Fila-Bakabadio -- Shaking the racial and gender foundations of France : the influences of "Sarah Baartmann" in the production of Frenchness / Robin Mitchell -- Discourse on immigration : Fatou Diome's commitment to human rights in The belly of the Atlantic / Joseph Dièmè -- Remapping the metropolis : theorizing Black women's subjectivities in interwar Paris / Claire Oberon Garcia -- Social imaginaries in tension? The women of Cameroon's battle for equal rights under French rule at the turn of the 1940s-50s / Rose Ndengue.
Summary:
"Black French Women and the Struggle for Equality, 1848-2016 explores how Black women--in France, the French Caribbean, Réunion Island, Gorée, Dakar, Rufisque, and Saint-Louis--experienced and reacted to French colonialism"-- Provided by publisher.
Series:
France overseas : studies in empire and decolonization
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