Lisa McNee Selfish Gifts: Senegales...

Lisa McNee Selfish Gifts: Senegalese Women's Autobiographical Discourses. Albany: SUNY Pres 2000 197 pp ISBN 0-7914-4587-9 $5750 cloth; ISBN 0-7914-4580-7 $1895 paper.

In her work Selfish Gifts; Senegalese Women 's Autobiographical Discourses, Lisa McNee addresses the essential and universal question of by what means human identity is formed by the agency of the interaction between individuals and the communities into which they are born. Her fieldwork among Senegalese women also allows her to consider a more specifically African problematic: is it possible for Africans, who define