Wrestling with Standpoint theory... Some Thoughts on Standpoint and African F…

This essay attempts to probe the theory of standpoint feminism, and the charge of epistemic privilege associated with the theory. Standpoint theory itself can be seen to have emerged in the context…

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To a Different Degree": Student Reflections on Gender and Women's Studies

This piece is therefore informed by a panel presentation of student experiences of GWS at particular South African institutions. Barabra Boswell shared her insights of GWS at the University of the …

Institutionalising Gender Equality in African Universities: The Case of Women…

The critical description of the Department of Women’s and Gender Studies at Makerere University presented in this short article aims to illustrate what has been achieved and what remains challeng…

African Feminist Theologies, the Global Village, and the Imperative of Solida…

women began to respond theologically to the injustice of sexism. Women around the globe, however, have come to realize that women's ex periences are extremely diverse. There is no such thing as a g…

Revisiting the Normative Framework of the African Commission on Human and Peo…

This article examines the normative context of the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights in dealing with evidence obtained through human rights violations, and whether it serves its pur…

First Things first: Problems of a Feminist Approach to African Literature

In the autumn of 1981 I went to a conference in Mainz. The theme of the conference was 'The Role of Women in Africa'; it was a traditional academic conference and proceeded in an orderly fashion wi…

South African Engagement with Muslim Personal Law: The Women’s Legal Centre…

This case study article examines the South African context, introduces the Women’s Legal Centre (WLC) in Cape Town, South Africa as a feminist organisation, and explores the strategies of the WLC…

Trajectories of Maternal Ante- and Postpartum Depressive Symptoms and their A…

The vast majority of research on mental health has been undertaken in high income countries. This study aimed at investigating the long-term course of maternal depressive symptoms and its associati…

Ama Ata Aidoo’s Woman-Centred Pan- Africanism: A reading of selected works

This paper examines the pan-African perspective that informs Ama Ata Aidoo’s body of work. It situates the author’s work within the seemingly male-dominated pan-African discourse of the 1960s a…