By Fatou Sow Aminata Diaw was our friend. She was my colleague, my sister, my friend. We became colleagues upon her arrival in 1986 at the University of Dakar. Young and brilliant, with a string of qualifications under her belt, she became one of the first Senegalese women to teach philosophy there. It was still…
Author: Fatou Sow
Dr Fatou Sow (Senegal) is a social scientist who graduated in Sociology from the University of Dakar, the Université Paris-Sorbonne, and the Université Paris-Diderot. She researched and taught courses on social and gender issues in Dakar and Paris. She was a trainer at the CODESRIA. She was also President of the Réseau de recherche en santé de la reproduction en Afrique francophone (1992-1996), Coordinator for Francophone Africa for DAWN (1995-2007)., and International Coordinator of the International Solidarity Network Women Living under Muslim Laws. Her research interests and activism are centered on women’s human rights. Her main publications include Femmes sénégalaises à l’horizon 2015, with M. Diouf (1993) ; Engendering African Social Sciences, with A. Imam and A. Mama, 1997; Les Sénégalaises en chiffres, with M. Guèye et al, 2000 ; Notre corps, notre santé : Santé et sexualité des femmes en Afrique subsaharienne, with C. Bop et al. 2004 ; Langue identités et enjeux de la recherche féministe, F. Sow et al. 2009 ; Le sexe de la mondialisation : Genre, classe, race et nouvelle division du travail, with J. Falquet, H. Hirata, D. Kergoat, B. Labari, F. Sow, N. Le Feuvre et al., 2010 ; Genre et Fondamentalismes, F. Sow (ed), 2018.