Africa

This syllabus is designed for senior undergraduate, or early postgraduate students. Its objectives are:

The AGI’s Strengthening Gender and Women’s Studies for Africa’s Transformation (GWS Africa) Project pursues the Institute’s mission by developing and disseminating intellectual resources, and supporting intellectual dialogue and networking.

Lisa Lindsay’s and Stephan Miescher’s edited collection, Men and Masculinities in Modern Africa (section 7a) addresses the construction of masculinities during the socio-economic and cultural transformations of the colonial and postcolonial periods.

Websites of Interest

New African magazine,

Available: http://www.africasia.com/newafrican/
 
New African Woman magazine,

Available: http://www.africasia.com/newafricanwoman/

Rhodes Journalism Review,
Available: http://www.rjr.ru.ac.za/
  

About Feminist Africa

Africa Feminist Africa is a continental gender studies journal produced by a community of feminist scholars. Currently based at the African Gender Institute in Cape Town, Feminist Africa provides a forum for progressive, cutting-edge gender research and feminist dialogue focused on the continent.

Teaching and curricula on gender and women.s studies in Africa have predominantly focused on issues of development and/or policy, as indicated by a recent and ongoing survey carried out by the African Gender Institute. At the same time, scholars, practitioners and policy makers recognise that there is a “gap” between policy and its implementation.

Assoc. Prof. Jane Bennett