Chapter 1 Preface; Acknowledgements; About the Contributors Chapter 2 The Keys to Contribution of Black Women Writers Chapter 3 Bessie Head's Perspective on Women Chapter 4 Zulu Sofola Chapter 5 Feminist Consciousness and Young Adult Literature Chapter 6 The African Response to American Feminism Chapter 7 Women and Society in Select Novels and Short Stories of Flora Nwapa Chapter 8 Coramae Richey Mann on Women, Crime and the Color of American Justice Chapter 9 Nwapa and Gender, Culture and Modernization Chapter 10 Buchi Emecheta and the Politics of Gender Chapter 11 Flora Nwapa's Final Legacy: Dramatic Elements in The Sychophants Chapter 12 Grace Nichols' I is a Long Memoried Woman and Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust