Black feminist intellectual activism: a transformative pedagogy at a South African university

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dc.contributor.advisorBennett, Janeen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorHames, Mary Margaret Philomeen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2016-07-15T11:17:48Z
dc.date.available2016-07-15T11:17:48Z
dc.date.issued2016en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis 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 outside the classroom. This work is premised on the educational philosophies of liberation, embodiment and freedom of the oppressed and the marginalised. The qualitative research is largely presented as ethnographical research, with the researcher located as both participant in the evolvement of the two educational programmes and as writer of this dissertation. Both educational programmes deal with performance and performativity and aim to give voice to the marginalised bodies and lives in the university environment. The research demonstrates how two marginalised groups claim space on campus through performativity involving the body and voice. In the Edudrama, Reclaiming the P…Word, young black women, via representation of word and body, transform the performance space into one in which the misogynistic and racist gaze is transformed. This feminist theatre is intrinsically related to the feminist political work of reclamation of the black female body, which became invisible and objectified for abuse under colonialism, apartheid and patriarchy. The various feminist elements and processes involved in creating feminist text and theatre are discussed. The praxis involved in these processes is then theorised in terms of critical pedagogy as black feminist intellectual activism. In the case of the lesbian, gay and transgender programme, Loud Enuf, the bodies and voices are used differently in the public campus domain to challenge homophobia. This programme is used to raise awareness about sex, sexuality, sexual orientation and gender identity. This programme is intensely political and challenges ambiguous understandings regarding the notion of equality in South Africa post-1994.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationHames, M. M. P. (2016). <i>Black feminist intellectual activism: a transformative pedagogy at a South African university</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,African Gender Institute. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20364en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationHames, Mary Margaret Philome. <i>"Black feminist intellectual activism: a transformative pedagogy at a South African university."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,African Gender Institute, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20364en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationHames, M. 2016. Black feminist intellectual activism: a transformative pedagogy at a South African university. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Hames, Mary Margaret Philome AB - 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 outside the classroom. This work is premised on the educational philosophies of liberation, embodiment and freedom of the oppressed and the marginalised. The qualitative research is largely presented as ethnographical research, with the researcher located as both participant in the evolvement of the two educational programmes and as writer of this dissertation. Both educational programmes deal with performance and performativity and aim to give voice to the marginalised bodies and lives in the university environment. The research demonstrates how two marginalised groups claim space on campus through performativity involving the body and voice. In the Edudrama, Reclaiming the P…Word, young black women, via representation of word and body, transform the performance space into one in which the misogynistic and racist gaze is transformed. This feminist theatre is intrinsically related to the feminist political work of reclamation of the black female body, which became invisible and objectified for abuse under colonialism, apartheid and patriarchy. The various feminist elements and processes involved in creating feminist text and theatre are discussed. The praxis involved in these processes is then theorised in terms of critical pedagogy as black feminist intellectual activism. In the case of the lesbian, gay and transgender programme, Loud Enuf, the bodies and voices are used differently in the public campus domain to challenge homophobia. This programme is used to raise awareness about sex, sexuality, sexual orientation and gender identity. This programme is intensely political and challenges ambiguous understandings regarding the notion of equality in South Africa post-1994. DA - 2016 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2016 T1 - Black feminist intellectual activism: a transformative pedagogy at a South African university TI - Black feminist intellectual activism: a transformative pedagogy at a South African university UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20364 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationHames MMP. Black feminist intellectual activism: a transformative pedagogy at a South African university. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,African Gender Institute, 2016 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/20364en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentAfrican Gender Instituteen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherGender Studiesen_ZA
dc.titleBlack feminist intellectual activism: a transformative pedagogy at a South African universityen_ZA
dc.typeDoctoral Thesis
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