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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.
Steady was born in Sierra Leone,[1] studied in the US and England, and currently[when?] 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.[2][3]
Steady worked as a professor and as the director of women's studies at the California State University, Sacramento.[3] In 1992, she took a career break from the university to work as a senior advisor on women and gender at the United Nations.[3] She later worked at Wellesley College where she now holds the title of Professor Emerita of Africana Studies.[2]
Steady is noted for her work demonstrating the connections between racism and sexism,[1] and for advocating for "humanistic feminism" that includes the rights and needs of children as well as women.[4]
- "An Investigative Framework for Gender Research in Africa in the New Millennium" Archived 19 March 2022 at the Wayback Machine, 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, ISBN 978-0870733468[6]
- Women and Collective Action in Africa, 2005, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1403970831[2]
- Women and the Amistad Connection: Sierra Leone Krio Society, 2011, Schenkman Publishers, ISBN 978-0870471209[2]
- Women and Leadership in West Africa: Mothering the Nation and Humanizing the State, 2011, Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978-0230338128[2]
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