Femmes africaines et pouvoir. Les maraîchè res de Kinshasa
Spanning two hundred years of history from the nineteenth century to the 1990s, Sisters or Strangers? explores the complex lives of immigrant, ethnic, and racialized women in Canada. The volume deals with a cross-section of peoples – including Japanese, Chinese, Black, Aboriginal, Irish, Finnish, Ukrainian, Jewish, Mennonite, Armenian, and South Asian Hindu women – and diverse groups of women, including white settlers, refugees, domestic servants, consumer activists, nurses, wives, and mothers.
Gertrude Mianda is an Associate Professor in York University’s School of Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies and director of the Harriet Tubman Institute. Her areas of research include sociology; gender and post colonialism in Africa; development and globalization; women; and gender.
Other publications from this author include:
- “L’Etat, le genre et l’iconographie: l’image de la femme au Congo belge” in Images, mémoires et savoirs. Une histoire en partage avec Bogumil Koss Jewsiewicki, 515-537. (2009)
- “Du Congo des évolués au Congo des universitaires” in ‘L’Université dans le devenir de l’Afrique: Un demi-siècle de présence au Congo-Zaՙire, 221-244 (2007)
- “Sisterhood versus Discrimination: Being a Black African Francophone Immigrant Woman in Montreal and Toronto”. in Sisters or Strangers? Immigrant Women, Ethnic, and Racialized Women in Canadian History (2004)
- “Problèmes sociaux en Ontario français” in Reflets 6 (2) (2000)
- “L’intervention en contextes minoritaires” in Reflets 4 (1) (1998)
- Femmes africaines et pouvoir. Les maraîchè res de Kinshasa (1996)