Filomina Clarice Steady

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.

Early life and education
Steady was born in Sierra Leone, studied in the US and England, and currently lives in the US.

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.

Career
Steady worked as a professor and as the director of women's studies at the California State University, Sacramento. In 1992, she took a career break from the university to work as a senior advisor on women and gender at the United Nations. She later worked at Wellesley College where she now holds the title of Professor Emerita of Africana Studies.

Steady is noted for her work demonstrating the connections between racism and sexism, and for advocating for "humanistic feminism" that includes the rights and needs of children as well as women.

Selected publications

 * "An Investigative Framework for Gender Research in Africa in the New Millennium", in O. Oyewumi (ed.), African Gender Studies: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues, 2005, New York: Palgrave
 * The Black Woman Cross-Culturally, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981, Schenkman Publishers, ISBN 978-0870733468
 * Women and Collective Action in Africa, 2005, Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 978-1403970831
 * Women and the Amistad Connection: Sierra Leone Krio Society, 2011, Schenkman Publishers, ISBN 978-0870471209
 * Women and Leadership in West Africa: Mothering the Nation and Humanizing the State, 2011, Palgrave Macmillan ISBN 978-0230338128