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The Challenges of Feminism: Gender, Ethics and Responsible Academic Freedom in African Universities

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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, feminism deconstructs the epistemological
foundations of patriarchy and contributes to the emancipation of
women as subjects and studies on and about women as critical intellectual
engagements. Despite this potential, the discourse on academic freedom
and intellectual responsibility in African universities has rarely yielded
ground for feminist ethics, and feminist intellectuals within the universities
have had to struggle for space. This article discusses these struggles to
insert feminism as part of the intellectual discourse on academic freedom
within Africa’s scholarly community between 1990 – the year of the Academic
Freedom Conference in Kampala – and 2010. The institutional and
intellectual challenges that have been encountered by feminist-inspired academics
are highlighted. Finally, the author discusses the imperatives to move
the discourse on gender in African scholarly communities beyond the normative
policy rhetoric to tackling the gendered configuration of academic
institutions.

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: Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa.,
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English
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0851–7762
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Gender
Feminism
Ethics
African Universitie
Academic Freedom
Feminist Intellectuals
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