Body Politics and Citizenship

Our contributors focus on the gendered meanings of the everyday lived spaces – of homes and neighbourhoods in townships and peri-urban peripheries of Cape Town and Lusaka. The individual author…

Reclaiming the Streets: Investigating Female Experience of Cinematic Urban Vi…

The spatial ideologies and narrative tropes of gendered victimhood, which are designed to induce fear and anxiety, are routinely employed to govern and restrict female access to and experience of…

Feminist Africa Issue 7. 2007: Diaspora Voices

This issue set out to explore diaspora feminist engagements with the idea and reality of Africa: the gendered experiences of diaspora populations and the influence of the diaspora on gender relatio…

International Efforts on Abandoning Female Genital Mutilation

Female genital mutilation (FGM), sometimes referred to as female circumcision or female genital cutting, isa harmful cultural practice without any known health benefit. Its short-term and long-term…

Gender, Farmwork, and Women's Migration from Lesotho to the New South Africa

On a observe ces dix dernikres annees une importante augmentation du nombre des femmes venues d'etats voisins emigrer en Afrique du sud. La spdcificite and le caractere profondement fiminin de ce m…

Adolescent Sex and ‘Defilement’ in Malawi Law and Society

During colonisation Malawi received a Western penal code, which included the ‘defilement’ provision, restricting males from sexually accessing girls below a specified age. Countries that main…

Gender and transnational histories of Libya

This series of articles focuses on Libya to investigate how individual and collective identities are imagined, experienced, and narrated in a mobile and interconnected world. Drawing from original …

Debunking Patriarchal Legacy in African Traditional Setting: A Reading of Efo…

This article investigates the critical views of Efo Kodjo Mawugbe on some African traditional customs which deny identity and welfare to women and his literary endeavor to unravel the patriarchal…

Reclaiming Popular Culture to Promote Gender Equality & Women's Empowerment

In order to further promote gender equality and women's empowerment, there is a need for women's rights organisations to adopt strategies that can target a mass base of the population if perception…

Feminist Africa Issue 13. 2009: Body Politics and Citizenship

ISBN/ISSN

1726-4596

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