Word: emecheta
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NIGERIAN-BORN AUTHOR Buchi Emecheta welcomed her cosmopolitan sisters to the United Nation's conference on the Decade of Women in Nairobi last spring: "On behalf of mother Africa, 'welkome, dear sisters to the Modar' lan'. Afrika go treat you well, well. Welkome." Her welcome came as a genuine call for solidarity, reconciling differences within the international women's movement...
...have much to do with the sexy, healthy, multi-orgasmic highly successful Australian woman who jog, drink cocktails and relax in their bathtubs" points out that the sexual revolution has been primarily a bourgeois one for Western audiences who can afford to dwell upon appeasing libidos instead of hunger. Emecheta claims that Western women have, in fact, undervalued themselves by staying within the capitalist framework and focusing on the need to "relearn how to be a woman." Her claim echoes other Third World feminists who call for a return to a socio-economic basis for feminism; most important, this claim...