Filomina Clarice Steady

Filomena Clarice 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.

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.

, in O. Oyewumi, African Gender Studies: Conceptual and Theoretical Issues, 2005, New York: Palgrave
The Black Woman Cross-Culturally, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981, Schenkman Publishers,
Women and Collective Action in Africa, 2005, Palgrave Macmillan,
Women and the Amistad Connection: Sierra Leone Krio Society, 2011, Schenkman Publishers,
Women and Leadership in West Africa: Mothering the Nation and Humanizing the State, 2011, Palgrave Macmillan