Nego‐Feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa’s Way

@article{Nnaemeka2004NegoFeminismTP,
  title={Nego‐Feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa’s Way},
  author={Obioma Nnaemeka},
  journal={Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society},
  year={2004},
  volume={29},
  pages={357 - 385}
}
  • Obioma Nnaemeka
  • Published 1 January 2004
  • Economics
  • Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
I n 1999, I was invited to speak at an international conference organized by the “Women Waging Peace Project” at Harvard University’s Kennedy School that attracted participants from some of the conflict zones of our troubled planet—Northern Ireland, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Sudan, Sierra Leone, Rwanda, Bosnia, the Middle East, Burundi, Angola, and so forth. One of those invited to address the gathering was Martha Nussbaum, a philosopher who has assumed high visibility and… 
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