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Mortality of Women From Intimate Partner Violence in South Africa: A National…

The purpose of this article is to describe mortality of women from intimate partner violence (IPV) in South Africa using a retrospective national study in a proportionate random sample of 25 mortua…

Editorial: Muslim Women in Africa and The Diaspora: Past, Present and the Future

It gives me a great pleasure to be the guest editor of this special issue of Muslim women in Africa and the Diaspora of the prize winner international journal JENdA: The Journal of Culture and Afri…

Exploring Ideational Metafunction in Helon Habila’s Oil on Water: A Re-eval…

This article aims at applying some of the principles guiding Systemic Functional Grammar (SFG) to Helon Habila’s Oil On Water (2011). One of the major principles of Systemic Linguistics is that t…

Prosecuting Violence against Women in South African Courts: A Reflection of t…

Introduction: The first author participated in a course related to critical feminist schools of thought while pursuing her doctoral program. Engaging with a scholarly community of feminist research…

Editorial New Perspectives on Gender in Shari’a-Based Family Law Studies: M…

This Special Issue is the result of a conference on Islamic Family Law that we organized in the Netherlands in 2013, entitled: Islamic Family Law in Modern Europe and the Muslim World – Legal and…

Editorial New Perspectives on Gender in Shari’a-Based Family Law Studies: M…

This Special Issue is the result of a conference on Islamic Family Law that we organized in the Netherlands in 2013, entitled: Islamic Family Law in Modern Europe and the Muslim World – Legal a…

The Violence of Power: Power Relations and Women’s Experience of Violence

Violence against women involves the physical and verbal (both subtle and overt) coercion of women of all age groups, ethnic/racial backgrounds, religious persuasions, and socio-economic background.…

Review of Nicola Slee, Fran Porter and Anne Phillips (eds.), The Faith Lives …

This is a collection of short essays on a wide range of subjects relating to the faith lives of women and girls. The nineteen chapters are divided into five sections, dealing with: feminist researc…

Women’s Identities and Power

In the opening part of this chapter, I explore the meaning of power (but would not lay claim to undertaking an exhaustive exploration of the meaning of the subject) and make a case for why women ne…