Books by Amina Mama

A Nigerian woman scholar addresses three main areas of literature in gender and women''s studies, a discipline which has become a vast field of research, teaching and activism in Africa and beyond. She situates African women''s studies in the context ofinternational feminism, regional political and institutional conditions. The study addresses recent publications in the general field of state and politics, from precolonial times to the present; reviews a range of material grouped under the heading of cultural studies; and considers the historical and contempoary literature on all aspects of women''s involvement in various sphers of work and the economy. Finally, the author questions the relationship between women''s studies and the women''s movement in Africa.

An incisive and readable book which applies the insights of complex areas of contemporary social theory, first to investigate the history of racist psychology, and then to theorise the dynamics of black feminism.