Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a WomanIn a gathering of griot traditions fusing storytelling, cultural history, and social and literary criticism, Put Your Hands on Your Hips and Act Like a Woman re members and represents how women of the African diaspora have drawn on ancient traditions to record memory, history, and experience in performance. These womens songs and dances provide us with a wealth of polyphonic text that records their reflections on identity, imagination, and agency,