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The African Gender Institute (AGI) is a feminist research and teaching group that studies issues related to gender in Africa. It has become a department at the University of Cape Town (UCT), administered within the School of African and Gender Studies, Social Anthropology and Linguistics.
Participants at the NWSA Conference 2016. Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppression; and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social ...
In South Africa, feminism has always been related to issues of race. This trend has been analyzed and called to attention in the "difference debate," which refers to interactions between black and white gender activists. [40] Historically, the voices of white women have dominated the South African feminist discourse, marginalizing black voices.
Feminist Africa is a peer-reviewed academic journal that addresses feminist topics from an "African continental perspective". [1] It is published by the African Gender Institute (University of Cape Town). [2] Its founding editor-in-chief is Amina Mama (Mills College and University of California, Davis). [3]
Amina Mama (born 19 September 1958) is a Nigerian-British writer, activist and academic. [1] Her main areas of focus have been post-colonial, militarist and gender issues. She has lived in Africa, Europe and North America, and worked to bridge the gap between feminists and related movements across the glo
Patricia McFadden (born 1952) is a radical African feminist, sociologist, writer, educator, and publisher from Eswatini. [1] She is also an activist and scholar who worked in the anti-apartheid movement for more than 20 years. [ 2 ]
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 ...
Zethu Matebeni is a sociologist, activist, writer, documentary film maker, Professor and South Africa Research Chair in Sexualities, Genders and Queer Studies at the University of Fort Hare. She has held positions at the University of the Western Cape and has been senior researcher at the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) at UCT . [ 1 ]