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…

Ideal Women, Invisible Girls?

The following reflections are based on my ethnographic research. This had two focuses: on the one hand the roles of gender and Islam in everyday sociopolitical dynamics in the Sahrawi camps, and on…

Speculative Praxis Towards a Queer Feminist Digital Archive: A Collaborative …

This essay, written as a collaborative process document, chronicles some of the challenges of creating digital spaces that can house and encourage trans- feminist and queer affective and cultural a…

‘Disabled motherhood in an African community’: Towards an African women t…

The politics of culture, motherhood and mothering in some African communities highlight the tensions that exist in the broader feminist theology agenda. There are emerging politics between the able…

“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…

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…

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…

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…

Generating Knowledge and Evidence on the Prevention of Violence Against Women…

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Politics of Gender (in) Equality Relating to Sport and Development Within a S…

Gender represents a confounding social construction within the multiple-layering of relative disenfranchisement in the Sub-Saharan context of poverty. Class and race play a significant role in the …