Over the last two decades development studies professionals are drawing on Sustainable Livelihoods (SL) framework to understand the various livelihood strategies available to rural people. The unad…
This study investigates the gender differences in water access and its welfare effects using a sample of 291 irrigators from two irrigation schemes in the Msinga Local Municipality, South Africa. T…
Many women living with HIV experience gendered power inequalities, particularly in their intimate relationships, that prevent them from achieving optimal sexual and reproductive health (SRH) and …
Background: The importance of strong and transformative leadership is recognised as essential to the building of resilient and responsive health systems. In this regard, Sustainable Development Go…
The linkages between development and migration have received increasing attention by international institutions and donor agencies alike. With approximately half of all migrants being women, the …
This paper analyses the factors influencing the choices of careers in construction by South African women. The literature on challenges which influence women’s choices of careers in construction …
This issue of Feminist Africa is a special edition which foregrounds the research created, with the young women, through the five different teams. Jill Bradbury and Peace Kiguwa, working with a tea…
Feminist theory and ethics have enormous potentials to transform and energize the discourse on academic freedom and social responsibility. As a theory of knowledge and an intellectual practice, f…
In African childhood studies, ideas about love, sex and gender are often ignored. Despite love’s overarching presence children and young people are often written about as loveless. The study of A…
Issues of women’s empowerment and gender inequality have been of paramount importance, particularly in the two decades since the Fourth World Conference on Women, Beijing, 1995. At that conferenc…