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Daughters of the Goddess, Daughters of Imperialism
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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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A genealogy of class transformation in the 20th century. It contrasts the idea of a collectivist, humanist culture of traditional African matriarchal heritage with a corrupt, oppressive culture of imperialism that it argues is the heritage of contemporary, elite-led women's organizations.

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Ifi Amadiume is a 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, Hanover. There, she teaches in both the Department of Religion and the African-American Studies Programme. Professor Amadiume is author of the influential Male Daughters, Female Husbands (Zed Books, 1988) which won the Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year award in 1989.

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