Even with a university education, the Igbo women of southeastern Nigeria face obstacles that prevent them from reaching their professional and personal potentials. Negotiating Power and Privilege is a study of their life choices and the embedded patriarchy and other obstacles in postcolonial Africa barring them from fulfillment.Philomina
Philomina E. Okeke-Ihejirika is an assistant professor of women's studies at the University of Alberta. Her current research involves economic barriers to black immigrant women's empowerment in Edmonton, Alberta.
“The intellectual success of this study is not that it yields generalizations about the role of education, neatly packaged and ready for uncritical international application to African women or Third World women at large. Rather, this study generates widely applicable questions and identifies issues that are likely to shape the direction of research on women's education and employment for years to come.”
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