Alternation 20,2 (2013) Engaging Analytical Perspectives on Gender in the African Context

ARTICLES

  • Mpilo Pearl Sithole, Victor Ngonidzashe Muzvidziwa and Vivian Besem Ojong  Editorial: Engaging New Analytical Perspectives on Gender in the African Context | PDF

 Theoretical and Conceptual Issues

  • Mpilo Pearl Sithole    Gender, Research and Knowledge Production: The Struggle Ahead | PDF
  • Ufo Okeke Uzodike and Hakeem Onapajo   Women and Development in Africa: Competing Approaches and Contested Achievements | PDF
  • Langone Maunganidze    ‘Invisible’ and ‘Hidden’ Actors: A Gendered Discourse on Participation in Family-Controlled Businesses in Zimbabwe | PDF
  • Vivian Besem Ojong   Submission, Experience, Empowerment and Human Rights: A Conceptual Problematic for Christian Women | PDF

Methodological Underpinnings

  • Janet Muthoni Muthuki   The Complexities of a Feminist-based Approach in Addressing Gender Inequality: African Professional Migrants in South Africa Systems | PDF
  • Vivian Besem Ojong   The Gender Dynamics of Conducting Fieldwork and its Implications for the Writing of Ethnographies  | PDF
  • Urmilla Bob, Humayrah Bassa and Suveshnee Munien   Qualitative Approaches to Unpack Gendered Land Relations and Power Dynamics in Inanda, KwaZulu-Natal | PDF
  • Maheshvari Naidu   Revisiting Female Power and the Notion of African Feminisms | PDF

 Patriarchy

  • Nompumelelo B.  Zondi   The Position of Women in Zulu and Shona Societies: The Case of Uvalo Lwezinhlonzi  and Nervous Conditions | PDF
  • Agnes Malaza and Catherine Addison   The Figure of the Older Woman in African Fiction | PDF
  • Ndwakhulu Tshishonga Mushangwe A No Go Space for Women: Implications for Gender (In)equality | PDF
  • Nompumelelo Zondi and Mpumelelo Ntshangase  Shifting Boundaries in Respect of Perceptions Governing Women and the Burning of Impepho | PDF
  • Irene Muzvidziwa   Gender, Culture and Exclusion of Women in Educational Leadership | PDF
  • Ruth Hoskins   The Gender Profile of Library and Information Science (LIS) Academics in South African Universities | PDF

Livelihoods

  • Sunungurai Dominica Chingarande   Climate Change and Rural Livelihoods in Guruve District: A Gender Analysis | PDF
  • Nompumelelo Thabethe and Ufo Okeke Uzodike   Participation of Women in Agriculture: Reality or Rhetoric? | PDF
  • Victor Ngonidzashe Muzvidziwa   Married Women Breadwinners: A Myth or Reality? | PDF 

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