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A Journey through trauma: a memoir about grief, healing, memory, trauma, spiritual quest and social justice

Author: Gwala, Dela Date: 2019 I am finally getting used to being home. Two weeks into 2013, I have the kind of routine reserved for unemployed recent graduates. I wake up and try to convince myself to run. On the days where the tedium of being in Centurion wins out, I ... Read more
"All the world's a stage": 'gendered performativities of 'transitional' masculinities within a South Africa female-to-male (FTM) transsexual context

Author: Kinoti, Patricia Date: 2009 The theoretical framework for this research was designed through contemporary work, both international and South Africa, on questions of gender, performativity, and masculinities. In addition, questions of social justice for those marginalized ... Read more
An exploration of the gender and sexual dynamics for women performers in the Cape Town jazz community

Author: George, Aimée Date: 2020 This research explores the dynamics of gender, sexuality and power for women performers within the jazz community in Cape Town. Although the history and development of South African jazz has been extensively researched, very few texts mention ... Read more
Black feminist intellectual activism: a transformative pedagogy at a South African university

Author: Hames, Mary Margaret Philome Date: 2016 This dissertation engages with critical pedagogic theories and activism from a black feminist perspective. The central argument is that education is not only confined to the formal classroom but also takes place in the most unlikely places ... Read more
Bodies across borders : embodiment and experiences of migration for southern African international students at the University of Cape Town

Author: Moll, Tessa Date: 2010 In context of increasing global migration and its correlation to heightened tensions around the meaning of a "foreign" body, this research questions the experiences of bodies crossing borders into the social and historical space of Cape Town, ... Read more
Body politics: an illumination of the landscape of sexuality and nationhood? Re-seeing Zimbabwe through elderly women's representations of their sexual and gendered lives

Author: Batisai, Kezia Date: 2013 Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. Read more
Caring from the margins: Community HIV/AIDS care work as social reproduction in the era of HIV/AIDS

Author: Meintjes-Moakes, Ingrid Date: 2012 I come to my research interest through experiences as an activist, holding firm to the belief that community HIV/AIDS care work is profoundly deprivational for the women who do it. With a commitment to feminist research, I was interested in ... Read more
Circles and Circles: Notes on African Feminist debates around gender and violence in the 21 Century

Author: Bennett, Jane Date: 2010 This article set out to sketch a terrain in which there are multiple, differently rooted, conversations among African feminists about gender and violence. There are few resolved debates, and many ways in which discussion which leads, in a ... Read more
The country we want to live in: hate crimes and homophobia in the lives of black lesbian South Africans

Author: Mkhize, Nonhlanhla ; Bennett, Jane ; Reddy, Vasu ; Moletsane, Relebohile Date: 2010 Based on a Roundtable seminar, held during the 2006 16 Days of Activism for no Violence against Women and Children, the text engages the heteronormative focus of the campaign, profiles aspects of the dynamic conversations, and builds strong ... Read more c b n a
Discourses of gendered vulnerability in the context of HIV/AIDS: An analysis of the 16 Days of Activism Against Women Abuse Campaign 2007 in Khayelitsha, South Africa

Author: Monte, Loredana Date: 2009 This thesis explores discourses on gender and gender based violence produced in the 16 Days of Activism Against Women Abuse campaign 2007 in Khayelitsha, Cape Town. The public awareness campaign united a number of local, community based ... Read more
Empowering women activists : creating a monster : the contentious politics of gender within social justice activism

Author: Eriksson, Asa Date: 2007 This Master's Research Project has sought to investigate the discursive space for 'gender struggles' within contemporary South African class based social justice activism. It has done so in the form of a qualitative case study, analysing ... Read more
An exploration of the experiences of Zimbabwean women informal cross-border traders at the Zimbabwean/South African BeitBridge border post

Author: Garatidye, Serita Date: 2014 Much research on economically-enforced migration between Zimbabwe and South Africa locates women as partners of men, rather than as economic agents in their own terms. Research on cross-border trade, however, has theorized that gender dynamics ... Read more
Exploring discourses of access and sexual harassment in higher education A study of students' perceptions of University of Nairobi's Institutional Culture, Kenya

Author: Muasya, Juliet Njeri Date: 2013 Includes abstract. Includes bibliographical references. Read more
Exploring gender dynamics in sexuality education in Uganda's secondary schools

Author: Muhanguzi, Florence Kyoheirwe Date: 2005 Within international theory of gender and education, sexuality is implicated as one of the major factors responsible for the differential participation of boys and girls in schooling and the persistent gender inequalities in education in ... Read more
Exploring the meaning and experiences of women with disabled children living in Ocean View and Masiphumelele

Author: Lagerdien, Kashifa Date: 2002 Bibliography: leaves 115-120. Read more
'Feminisation and outsourced work' : a case study of the meaning of 'transformation' through the lived experience of non-core work at the University of Cape Town

Author: Bardill, Lindiwe Date: 2008 This dissertation examines the meaning of university 'transformation' from the perspective of workers in 'non-core' zones of work. Mergers, outsourcing, retrenching and rightsizing, have become features of the post-apartheid higher education ... Read more
Football, Femininity and Muscle: An exploration of Heteronormative and Athletic Discources in the lives of elite-level women footballers in South Africa

Author: Engh, Mari Haugaa Date: 2010 Normalised constructions of masculinity and femininity within a heteronormative social structure have shaped beliefs about women's capacities, characteristics and bodies, and have constructed a hegemonic feminine ideal that has historically ... Read more
Ghanaian men and the performance of masculinity: negotiating gender-based violence in postcolonial Ghana

Author: Dery, Isaac Date: 2018 Within contemporary scholarship on formations of gender and their connections to violences, important questions concerning the politics of masculinities arise. Leading scholars, such as Kopano Ratele, argue for African contexts to be theorized ... Read more
A home for all? : exploring discourses that inform the construction of belonging in contemporary South Africa

Author: Elliott, Jean Ann Date: 2012 This thesis is concerned with the construction of belonging in contemporary South Africa and how it is reproduced, challenged and negotiated within the social action of language. This is explored by investigating the situated meanings individuals ... Read more
Just a piece of paper? : lesbian experiences of marriage through the Civil Union Act in South Africa

Author: Scott, Jessica Date: 2010 This research explores the meanings of marriage for South African lesbian women who have accessed marriage as a legal right through the Civil Union Act since its inception in 2006. As a researcher coming from the United States, where same-sex ... Read more

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