A PROPOSAL FOR EXPANDING ENDARKENED TRANSNATIONAL FEMINIST PRAXIS: CREATING A DATABASE OF WOMEN’S SCHOLARSHIP AND ACTIVISM TO PROMOTE HEALTH IN ZIMBABWE

World Congress on Health and Medical Sociology

September 19-20, 2016 Las Vegas, USA

Assata Zerai

University of Illinois, USA

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Health Edu Res Dev

Abstract :

Western researchers often do not incorporate the voices of African women in their research endeavors; and a serious engagement in women�s health activism in Zimbabwe cannot happen without this preliminary step (Zerai 2014). Endarkened feminist epistemologies have theorized a social science that refuses to sidestep African women�s perspectives (Dillard 2000). As a corrective to conceptual quarantining (Rabaka 2010) of black (African and African diaspora) feminist thought (Collins 1990), the exciting body of literature in the field broadly characterized as Africana feminism has helped to legitimate the languages, discourses, challenges, unique perspectives, divergent experiences, and intersecting oppressions and privileges of African women�s and girls� lives. In this manuscript, we develop an emerging Africana feminist methodology (Zerai 2014) to propose building a scholarship and activism database as well as a guide an exploratory discussion of health activism in Zimbabwe.

Biography :

Email: azerai@illinois.edu