Effect of maternal age on facility-based delivery: analysis of first-order bi…
Objectives Increasing access to skilled birth attendance, usually via childbirth in health facilities, is a key intervention to reduce maternal and perinatal mortality and morbidity. Yet, in some c…
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Community Radio, Women and Family Development Issues in South Africa: An Expe…
In South Africa, community radio outlets have adopted the use of indigenous languages to address local issues affecting women and familydevelopment. This study examined how community radio give att…
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Between Knowing and Imagining: What Space for Feminism in Scholarship on Africa?
What does it mean to talk about the relationship between knowing and imagining? More than any apparently external frontier, it is the capacity to go beyond what is given, to fantasise, to create ne…
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Imagining and Rebuilding Movements: Women's Rights and HIV/AIDS in West Africa
Between May 13-16, 2008 ActionAid International (AAI) and African Women's Development Fund (AWDF) hosted women living with HIV/AIDS and other activists from 7 countries in West Africa (Liberia, Nig…
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Exploring the Perceptions of Wits Academic Women About Women Empowerment and …
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…
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Between Knowing and Imagining: What Space for Feminism in Scholarship on Africa?
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Nego-Feminism: Theorizing, Practicing, and Pruning Africa’s Way
In 1999, I was invited to speak at an international conference organized by the “Women Waging Peace Project” at Harvard University’s Kennedy School that attracted participants from some of th…
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First Things first: Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature
In the autumn of 1981 I went to a conference in Mainz. The theme of the conference was 'The Role of Women in Africa'; it was a traditional academic conference and proceeded in an orderly fashion wi…
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Book Review: Women in Twentieth-Century Africa
The problematic dialectic of tradition and modernization has recently become a central topic in the study of African history, culture and contemporaneity. Historian Iris Berger adds to these discus…
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Intimate Partner Violence, Relationship Power Inequity, and Incidence of HIV …
Background Cross-sectional studies have shown that intimate partner violence and gender inequity in relationships are associated with increased prevalence of HIV in women. Yet temporal sequence and…
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