Africa's Feminist Thinkers
| Venitha Pillay
| Published Work
South African-born Venitha Pillay is currently as Associate Professor in Faculty of Education at the University of Pretoria where she's currently working in the fields of education and feminist research methodologies. Holding a MA in literature with focus on SA women’s writing Venitha is a teacher by training and has taught at high school, college and university level. Her other areas of research interest include developing women academics by understanding, explaining and addressing the limited movement of women academics into higher echelons of academia as well as interrogating feminist research methodologies, as she is currently working on a paper on the politicisation of method.
Venitha would furthermore like to work more constructively with women academics to develop their publication potential and research focuses in the near future. She furthermore sees herself connected to GWS on the African continent at the level of intellectual politics, marginalization of gendered knowledge and women’s epistemologies and considers her book ‘Academic Mothers’, which was also reviewed in Feminist Africa, to be her most important piece of writing so far.