Feminist Africa 22 Feminists Organising — Strategy, Voice, Power
Feminist Africa is guided by a profound commitment to transforming gender hierarchies in Africa, and seeks to redress injustice and inequality in its content and design, and by its open-access and …
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Putting them in their place: “respectable” and “unrespectable” women …
In this article, I consider how women in the former colony of Southern Rhodesia and contemporary Zimbabwe were and still are defined as “respectable” or “unrespectable”. I go on to draw out…
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Re-righting the sexual body
This article explores the concept of “sexual rights” and what this means in the context of state-sponsored and publicly supported homophobia across the African continent. It explores the grow…
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Eros, beauty and crisis: notes from Senegal
By focusing on relationships among women, I seek to explore the erotics of several arenas in public, private and social life both at the centre and the margins of dominant heteronormative relations…
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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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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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Ruling masculinity and sexuality
This article examines the idea of “a better life for all” promised to South Africans in the early post-apartheid era and reveals how deeply troubled it is by sexual politics, gendered power and…
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