Description
Book SynopsisThis book uses the tools of the arts, humanities, social sciences, and other fields to address challenges faced by women and girls around the world, both historically and in modern day, with an emphasis on intersectionality.
Table of ContentsIntroduction
Chapter 1: Race, Gender, Power, Alterity, and the Black Power Movement
Dawn Hutchinson and Lori Underwood
Chapter 2: Poverty and the Challenges of Women Participants in Nigerian Politics.
Gaius Jatau
Chapter 3: The De-reifying Gaze of the Gothic Heroine
Jason Ray Carney
Chapter 4: Democracy and the Limitations on Women’s Rights
Ursula Scheidegger
Chapter 5: Ruiz de Burton’s Inviolable Californios and Roguish Anglos in The Squatter and the Don and Who Would Have Thought It?
Geovani Ramirez
Chapter 6: Violence and the Black Female Body: Deconstructing Images of Rape in Toni Morrison’s Beloved
Patricia Hopkins
Chapter 7: Post- Partum Variables among Breastfeeding Women on Maternal and Infant Health in Ekiti State Nigeria.”
Ogunlade Joseph Olurotimi and Babatunde Chritianah Adekemi
Chapter 8: Resist, Survive, Endure: Empowered Female Characters in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin Novels
James Cornette
Chapter 9: A Distinct Set of Characteristics for Black Women at an HBCU: Tortured by Slavery-Shaped by Intersectionality- Liberated into Othermothering
Sandra Williamson-Ashe
Chapter 10: Forced Migration: Boko Haram’s Induced Migration and the Plight of Women and Young Girls in Northern Nigeria
Majtubi Ali Muhammad
