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Filomina Clarice Steady
Sierra Leonean author and academic
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 , 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 at the Wayback Machine, in O.
Oyewumi (ed.), African Gender Studies: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues, , New York: Palgrave[5]
- The Black Woman Cross-Culturally, Cambridge, Massachusetts, , Schenkman Publishers, ISBN&#;[6]
- Women and Collective Action in Africa, , Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN&#;[2]
- Women and the Amistad Connection: Sierra Leone Krio Society, , Schenkman Publishers, ISBN&#;[2]
- Women and Leadership in West Africa: Mothering the Nation and Humanizing the State, , Palgrave MacmillanISBN&#;[2]