The Intersectionality of Women’s Lives and Resistance

Dawn L. Hutchinson is senior lecturer in the Department of Philosophy and Religion at Christopher Newport University. Lori Underwood is professor of philosophy and director of the College of Arts and Humanities at Christopher Newport University.

Introduction



Chapter 1: Race, Gender, Power, Alterity, and the Black Power Movement



Dawn Hutchinson and Lori Underwood



Chapter 2: Poverty and the Challenges of Women Participants in Nigerian Politics.



Gaius Jatau



Chapter 3: The De-reifying Gaze of the Gothic Heroine



Jason Ray Carney



Chapter 4: Democracy and the Limitations on Women’s Rights



Ursula Scheidegger



Chapter 5: Ruiz de Burton’s Inviolable Californios and Roguish Anglos in The Squatter and the Don and Who Would Have Thought It?



Geovani Ramirez



Chapter 6: Violence and the Black Female Body: Deconstructing Images of Rape in Toni Morrison’s Beloved



Patricia Hopkins



Chapter 7: Post- Partum Variables among Breastfeeding Women on Maternal and Infant Health in Ekiti State Nigeria.”



Ogunlade Joseph Olurotimi and Babatunde Chritianah Adekemi



Chapter 8: Resist, Survive, Endure: Empowered Female Characters in Patrick O’Brian’s Aubrey/Maturin Novels



James Cornette



Chapter 9: A Distinct Set of Characteristics for Black Women at an HBCU: Tortured by Slavery-Shaped by Intersectionality- Liberated into Othermothering



Sandra Williamson-Ashe



Chapter 10: Forced Migration: Boko Haram’s Induced Migration and the Plight of Women and Young Girls in Northern Nigeria



Majtubi Ali Muhammad