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Feminist Knowledge | Review Essay

Gender and Women's Studies in South Africa
A Review Report

By Dr Desiree Lewis

Founding Trajectories and Publications in South African Women's and Gender Studies

Cheryl Walker, Women and Resistance in South Africa (1982)
Jacklyn Cock's Maids and Madams (1980)
Belinda Bozzoli, Marxism, Feminism and South African Studies (1983)
Deborah Gaitskell, "Introduction" to Journal of Southern African Studies" (1983)
Dorothy Driver, "Woman as Sign in the South African Colonial Enterprise" (1985)
Bessie Head
Miriam Tlali
Gcina Mhlope
Noni Jabavu, The Ochre People (1963)
Ellen Kuzwayo, Call Me Woman (1985)
Emma Mashinini, Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life (1989)
Fatima Meer and the Institute for Black Research
Christine Qunta Women in Southern Africa (1987)
Mamphela Ramphele

Trends in Research, Politics and Teaching in the Eighties and Early Nineties

Women and Politics
Pre-colonial Societies and Gender Relations
Women and Labour in the Twentieth Century
Literary Studies

Gender Studies and Research From the Mid Nineties

Women, the Law and Politics
Gender and Economics
Anthropology, Sociology and History
Gender-based Violence
Education and Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs)
Masculinities
Literary and Cultural Studies

References

Appendix: Institutional Review

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