Reflections on Feminism and Development in Africa: The Case of Kenya
This paper discusses the importance of moving towards African centered feminist theories. The paper argues that bringing feminism home to Africa will greatly impact our understanding of development…
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Creating Women’s Leadership for Peace and Security in the Greater Horn of A…
Contextualising Gender, Peace and Security Post-Cold war global security shifts in the early 1990s created the space for a rethink of the dominant conceptualisations of security. Key questions coul…
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Contesting Beauty: Black Lesbians on the Stage
The 1995 publication, Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa (Gevisser and Cameron, 1995), pioneered a new field of study that is yet to be fully recognised in South Africa. This ric…
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Defying the Odds, Not the Abuse: South African Women’s Agency and Rotating …
Employing a feminist lens that places emphasis on women’s agency South African feminists have challenged the dominant narrative of hapless women who need external saviours to climb out of poverty…
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The Intersectionality of Poverty, Disability and Gender as a Framework to Und…
Impoverished women who have disabilities make up some of the most isolated and overlooked people in the world. Often, they are excluded from women’s movements due to their disability, disability …
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“Circles and circles”: Notes on African feminist debates around gender an…
This article seeks to explore, at a theoretical level, the broad trajectories of recent African feminist engagements with ideas about gender and violence, and argues that while there is evidence of…
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How Women in Higher Education Negotiate Work and Home: A Study of Selected Wo…
The Council for Higher Education notes the lack of women doing research in South African universities. Focusing on the experiences of South African women academics, this article highlights the ways…
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Searching for Balance but Finding Guilt A Story of Academic Mothers in South …
This article draws on the data from a larger ethnographic study which tracked the lives of three academics who had just become mothers. In it, I respond to the question I have repeatedly encountere…
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Women’s Activism and Transformation: Arising from the Cusp
In this article, I describe and analyse women’s activism where I have encountered it in these three settings. From the self analysis and personal transformation processes in each setting I reflec…
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Sexual violence in conflict: A problematic international discourse
This article investigates a tension between the theoretical conceptualisation of sexual violence in conflict situations, and the reality of sexual violence. The author puts forth that despite a str…
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