Images of 'Motherhood' - African and Nordic Perspectives

Abstract

The papers in this and the following issues of JENdA are selected papers from a conference on Images of 'Motherhood' – African and Nordic Perspectives. The conference took place in Dakar at the Ile de Gorée in mid- February 2003. It was organized as part of the activities of the Sexuality, Gender and Society in Africa research programme at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala (www.nai.uu.se), in collaboration with the Department of Religious Studies, Uppsala University, and the Department of History, Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar. 'Nordic' in this context refers to the Nordic countries: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Iceland, whose governments finance the Nordic Africa Institute. This conference was made possible by an extra grant from SIDA, the Swedish government development agency.