Filomina Clarice Steady Explained

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 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.^[3]

Career

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

Steady is noted for her work demonstrating the connections between racism and sexism, 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", 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, ^[6]
• Women and Collective Action in Africa, 2005, Palgrave Macmillan,
• Women and the Amistad Connection: Sierra Leone Krio Society, 2011, Schenkman Publishers,

External links

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

Notes and References

1. Web site: 8 August 2021 . Marta. Romero-Delgado. Feminismos negros . Cultura y Pensamiento de los Pueblos Negros. 3 April 2022 . https://web.archive.org/web/20210808143610/https://culturaypensamientodelospueblosnegros.com/feminismos-negros/ . 8 August 2021 . dead.
2. Web site: Filomina Steady Professor Emerita of Africana Studies. 3 April 2022 . Wellesley College .
3. News: 18 September 1991 . 28 March 1992 . 20 . .
4. Lindah . Mhando . Theorizing African Identities and Multiple Modernities: Questions Revisited. ACAS Bulletin. 72. Winter 2005 . 32 .
5. Book: Steady, F. C.. https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-137-09009-6_17 . Oyèrónké. Oyěwùmí. An Investigative Framework for Gender Research in Africa in the New Millennium. African Gender Studies a Reader . . 2005 . 313–331 . 10.1007/978-1-137-09009-6_17 . 978-1-4039-6283-6.
6. Rowland Chukwuemeka Amaefula . Jan 2021 . AFRICAN FEMINISMS: PARADIGMS, PROBLEMS AND PROSPECTS . Feminismo/S . 37 . 293–305.