Circles and Circles: Notes on African Feminist debates around gender and violence in the 21 Century
| dc.contributor.author | Bennett, Jane | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-09-30T07:52:34Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-09-30T07:52:34Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2010 | |
| dc.date.updated | 2016-09-30T07:50:46Z | |
| dc.description.abstract | 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 pan-African gaze, towards mutual understanding and cohesive strategizing remains a naÁ¯ve idea. It is safe to suggest that the terms “gender” and “violence” remain simultaneously deeply entwined and infinitely separable. In the past few years, there have been vibrant, critical discussions on the nature, shape and direction of “women’s movement” organizing, and in African contexts, there are four overarching debates which have circled continually through intellectual writing on “women’s movements”, activist organization at several levels, and within numerous fora. The first debate concerns the meaning of the state. This debate is interlinked with a second: the meaning of the interaction between the North and diverse initiatives concerned with “women’s human rights,” “South-based feminisms,” and “gender-alert social justice”. The third debate concerns the very existence of a “women’s movement” and the fourth concerns access to reproductive health and to freedom from gender based violence. | |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Bennett, J. (2010). Circles and Circles: Notes on African Feminist debates around gender and violence in the 21 Century. <i>Feminist Africa</i>, http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22018 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Bennett, Jane "Circles and Circles: Notes on African Feminist debates around gender and violence in the 21 Century." <i>Feminist Africa</i> (2010) http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22018 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Bennett, J. (2010). «Circles and circles»: Notes on African feminist debates around gender and violence in the C21,«. Feminist Africa, 14, 21-47. | |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Journal Article AU - Bennett, Jane AB - 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 pan-African gaze, towards mutual understanding and cohesive strategizing remains a naÁ¯ve idea. It is safe to suggest that the terms “gender” and “violence” remain simultaneously deeply entwined and infinitely separable. In the past few years, there have been vibrant, critical discussions on the nature, shape and direction of “women’s movement” organizing, and in African contexts, there are four overarching debates which have circled continually through intellectual writing on “women’s movements”, activist organization at several levels, and within numerous fora. The first debate concerns the meaning of the state. This debate is interlinked with a second: the meaning of the interaction between the North and diverse initiatives concerned with “women’s human rights,” “South-based feminisms,” and “gender-alert social justice”. The third debate concerns the very existence of a “women’s movement” and the fourth concerns access to reproductive health and to freedom from gender based violence. DA - 2010 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town J1 - Feminist Africa LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2010 T1 - Circles and Circles: Notes on African Feminist debates around gender and violence in the 21 Century TI - Circles and Circles: Notes on African Feminist debates around gender and violence in the 21 Century UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22018 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22018 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Bennett J. Circles and Circles: Notes on African Feminist debates around gender and violence in the 21 Century. Feminist Africa. 2010; http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22018. | en_ZA |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.publisher.department | African Gender Institute | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.source | Feminist Africa | |
| dc.subject.other | Feminism | |
| dc.subject.other | Gender and Violence | |
| dc.subject.other | African Feminism | |
| dc.title | Circles and Circles: Notes on African Feminist debates around gender and violence in the 21 Century | |
| dc.type | Journal Article | en_ZA |
| uct.type.filetype | Text | |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Article | en_ZA |