Filomina Clarice Steady

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Filomena Clarice Steady (previously Filomina Chioma Steady) is a US-based Sierra Leonean author and academic who specializes in the intersectionality of racism and sexism.

Early life and education

Steady was born in Sierra Leone,^[1] studied in the US and England, and currently^[when?] lives in the US.^[2]

She has a bachelor's degree from Smith College, a master's degree from Boston University, and a PhD in social anthropology from Oxford University.^[2]^[3]

Career

Steady worked as a professor and as the director of women's studies at the California State University, Sacramento.^[3] In 1992, she took a career break from the university to work as a senior advisor on women and gender at the United Nations.^[3] She later worked at Wellesley College where she now holds the title of Professor Emerita of Africana Studies.^[2]

Steady is noted for her work demonstrating the connections between racism and sexism,^[1] and for advocating for "humanistic feminism" that includes the rights and needs of children as well as women.^[4]

Selected publications

"An Investigative Framework for Gender Research in Africa in the New Millennium" Archived 19 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine, in O. Oyewumi (ed.), African Gender Studies: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues, 2005, New York: Palgrave^[5]
The Black Woman Cross-Culturally, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981, Schenkman Publishers, ISBN 978-0870733468^[6]
Women and Collective Action in Africa, 2005, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1403970831^[2]
Women and the Amistad Connection: Sierra Leone Krio Society, 2011, Schenkman Publishers, ISBN 978-0870471209^[2]
Women and Leadership in West Africa: Mothering the Nation and Humanizing the State, 2011, Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978-0230338128^[2]

References

^ ^a ^b Romero-Delgado, Marta (8 August 2021). "Feminismos negros". Cultura y Pensamiento de los Pueblos Negros. Archived from the original on 8 August 2021. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Filomina Steady | Professor Emerita of Africana Studies". Wellesley College. Retrieved 3 April 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c "28 March 1992". Wisconsin State Journal. 18 September 1991. p. 20.
^ Mhando, Lindah (Winter 2005). "Theorizing African Identities and Multiple Modernities: Questions Revisited" (PDF). ACAS Bulletin (72): 32.
^ Steady, F. C. (2005). "An Investigative Framework for Gender Research in Africa in the New Millennium". In Oyěwùmí, Oyèrónké (ed.). African Gender Studies a Reader. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 313–331. doi:10.1007/978-1-137-09009-6_17. ISBN 978-1-4039-6283-6.
^ Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula (January 2021). "AFRICAN FEMINISMS: PARADIGMS, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS" (PDF). Feminismo/s. 37: 293–305.

External links

CV hosted by University of Wellesley
"Filomina Steady | African Women’s Leadership through the Ages", Wellesley College, 28 March 2018.

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