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According to Mama, the journal was created partly in response to a bias in existing scholarship towards the "Women In Development" (WID) perspective.Particular topics covered by the journal include: women's activism, sexism in higher education, militarism and peace, and gender-related violence.
This is a list of articles about academic journals related to the field of African studies ... Journal of Social Development in Africa; Journal of Southern African ...
AAWORD/AFARD was created after discussion between women scholars who met in Lusaka in Zambia in December 1976. [3] In its early years, AAWORD was supported by the Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa (CODESRIA). [4] In 1977, 1983 and 1988 it held general assemblies in Dakar.
This is a list of peer-reviewed, academic journals in the field of women's studies. Note : there are many important academic magazines that are not true peer-reviewed journals. They are not listed here.
Margaret C. "Peg" Snyder (January 30, 1929 – January 26, 2021) was an American social scientist with a special interest in women and economic development, particularly in Africa. She was the founding director of the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), which was absorbed into UN Women in 2011. She was also a co-founder of Women ...
Agenda is an African peer-reviewed academic journal of feminism, which was established in 1987 as a volunteer project in South Africa and is published by UNISA Press in collaboration with Routledge. In addition to publishing articles and other entries, the journal tutors young writers and since 2002 has a radio show, Turning Up the Volume on ...
The Journal of Social Development in Africa (JSDA) is a bi-annual subscription-based and peer-reviewed academic journal that began in 1986. The journal publishes original research and review articles that advance scholarship on social development issues in Africa - across various disciplines.
According to a 2013 study by Abrahams, [74] South Africa has the fourth highest rate of female homicide with 12.9 per 100,000 women being murdered by intimate partners in South Africa annually. With a rate of 7.5/100,000 women, women in South Africa are four times more likely to be murdered with a gun than a woman in the United States.