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Degrees of becoming: Young women’s use of higher education as a symbolic resource in the making of selfhood
Transitions to adulthood are life-making projects—efforts to construct meaning and possibility even amid uncertainty.
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Ukuhamba kukubona (to travel is to see): a feminist exploration of the intellectual legacies of black women's mobilities
This project investigates the mobilities of black women in Southern Africa.
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The politics of dress, gender and sexuality in Malawian popular art
This proposed study, which is an extension of my current research, sets out to examine the representations of the chitenje (a wrap-around cloth) in Malawian popular arts, as a site for examining how questions of gender, sexuality, class, and national belonging are negotiated.
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Women in mining frontiers in Africa: Exploring the diverse ways in which women’s lived experiences and livelihoods around sites of extraction are affected by mines
Scholarship on mining frontiers tends to be masculine in focus, covering topic such as the centrality of resource extraction in the colonial and post-colonial projects.
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The State versus Neville Alexander and ten others: The causes and consequences of a political trial
This book project concerns the 1963-64 trial of Neville Alexander and ten other members of the National Liberation Front (NLF).
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Exposing gender bias in the mathematics and operational research professions
Tako, A. A., & Constantinescu, C. 2025. Exposing gender bias in the mathematics and operational research professions. IMA Journal of Man...
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“S'obashaya Ngamatye”: Women and Sixty Years of the Armed Struggle in South Africa
This project brings together chapters written by 17 women former guerrillas from uMkhonto we Sizwe, the African National Congress military wing and the Azanian Peoples Liberation Army (APLA) and the Azanian National Liberation Army, the military wing of the Azanian Peoples Organisation (AZAPO).
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Black Freedom from Selma to Soweto: Gender, Consciousness, and Power
Two distinct, mutually influential, and globally inspirational black freedom struggles in the last half of the twentieth century – against segregation in the United States and apartheid in South Africa – are largely understood through charismatic leadership.
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The “social work” of work: Gendered dependencies of rural livelihoods in southern Africa
While policy-makers and international development practitioners in southern Africa put a great weight on supporting job creation given several decades of jobless growth in the region, there is less attention on how women and men are both differentially situated in labour relations and how they differentially make claims on resources that come from work activities through, for example, idioms of kinship, family, patronage, or friendship.
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Representing Abortion as an Ordinary Experience to Achieve Reproductive Justice
The way we talk about abortion needs to change.
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Queer Bodies in African Films
Ncube, Gibson. 2022. Queer Bodies in African Films. NISC Press/African Humanities Association. https://www.nisc.co.za/products/111/books/que...
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Criminal Desire: Race, Gender, and Illicit Interracial Sex in Apartheid South Africa
This project examines the production, enforcement, and impact of the Immorality (Amendment) Act (1950) during apartheid.
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Women awake
LeBaron, Michelle. 2021. Women awake. In Gender, Transitional Justice and Memorial Arts (pp. 172–192). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/97...
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Gandhi and the Gender of Nonviolent Resistance
Du Toit, Louise. 2022. Gandhi and the Gender of Nonviolent Resistance. Religions, 13(467), 1–18. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13050467
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Decolonization and Afro-Feminism
Tamale, Sylvia. 2020. Decolonization and Afro-Feminism. Daraja Press. https://darajapress.com/publication/decolonziation_and_afro-feminism
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Finding Homer
FINDING HOMER is a contemporary music-theater work.
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Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona
Niskanen, Kirsti and Michael J. Barany. (Eds.). 2021. Gender, Embodiment, and the History of the Scholarly Persona. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham...
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Playing with anxiety: black middle-class masculinities in the humorous works of Fred Khumalo and Ndumiso Ngcobo
Ndlovu, Thabisani and Increment Andile Dlulani. 2020. Playing with anxiety: black middle-class masculinities in the humorous works of Fred K...
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Desire, Agency, and Gender in Ancient Near Eastern Love Poetry
The Song of Songs, a collection of ancient erotic poetry known to the modern reader as a part of the Jewish and Christian Bible, belongs to the ancient Near Eastern tradition of love poetry together with the poems written in Sumerian, Akkadian, and Egyptian.
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Women in Law: Perspectives Across Africa
The corpus of scholarship from the Global North signal an increasing global feminization of the legal profession.
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“We are free when water is available”: gendered livelihood implications of sporadic water supply in Northern Ghana
Jeil, Emmanuel Bintaayi, Kabia Abass and John Kuumuori Ganle. 2020. “We are free when water is available”: gendered livelihood implications ...
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Unsettled Subjects: Sex Work in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street
Okolo, Ifeyinwa G. 2019. Unsettled Subjects: Sex Work in Chika Unigwe’s On Black Sisters’ Street. English Studies in Africa, 62(2), 112–123....
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Stories Telling Bodies: A Self-Disclosing Queer Theology of Sexuality and Vulnerability
Van Klinken, Adriaan. 2020. Stories Telling Bodies: A Self-Disclosing Queer Theology of Sexuality and Vulnerability. In Vulnerability and Re...
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Eternal mothers, whores or witches: The oddities of being a woman in politics in Zimbabwe
Ncube, Gibson. 2020. Eternal mothers, whores or witches: The oddities of being a woman in politics in Zimbabwe. Agenda, 1–9. https://doi.org...
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Constitutionalizing Travelling Feminisms in Kenya
Kabira, Nkatha. 2019. Constitutionalizing Travelling Feminisms in Kenya. Cornell International Law Journal, 52(1), 137–169.
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Gender, Luxury, Waste: New Intersections in Southern Consumption Theory
This project will bring together original, recently completed empirical work examining cultural and media dimensions of three key facets of contemporary consumer culture in the global south, with a view to generating new theory relevant to consumption in the global south.
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Gender and naming practices, and the creation of a taxonomy of masculinities in the South African soap opera The Queen
Ncube, Gibson. 2019. Gender and naming practices, and the creation of a taxonomy of masculinities in the South African soap opera The Queen....
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A lone ranger: My journey towards becoming a feminist geographer in Nairobi, Kenya
Kinyanjui, Mary. 2019. A lone ranger: My journey towards becoming a feminist geographer in Nairobi, Kenya. Gender, Place and Culture, 26(7–9...
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The Cry of Winnie Mandela (Revised edition with new content)
Njabulo Ndebele. 2013. The Cry of Winnie Mandela (Revised edition with new content). Picador Africa, 336 pp. EAN: 978 1 77010 308 5.
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Monitoring and Evaluation of African Women in Agricultural Research and Development (AWARD): An Exemplar of Managing for Impact in Development Evaluation
Paul R. Brandon, Nick L. Smith, Zenda Ofir, Zenda and Marco Noordeloos. 2014. Monitoring and Evaluation of African Women in Agricultural Res...
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Pentecostalism, Political Masculinity and Citizenship
Van Klinken, Adriaan. 2016. Pentecostalism, Political Masculinity and Citizenship. Journal of Religion in Africa 46:129–57. http://eprints.w...
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The History of Intimacy (1st ed.)
Baderoon, Gabeba. 2018. The History of Intimacy (1st ed.). Cape Town: Kwela Books, NB Publishers
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The Paradox of Isabel dos Santos. State Capitalism, Dynastic Politics, and Gender Hostility in a Resource-Rich, Authoritarian Country
Pitcher, Anne and Edalina S. Rodrigues. 2019. The Paradox of Isabel dos Santos. State Capitalism, Dynastic Politics, and Gender Hostility in...
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Kenyan, Christian, Queer
Van Klinken, Adriaan. 2019. Kenyan, Christian, Queer. Penn State University Press. http://www.psupress.org/books/titles/978-0-271-08380-3.ht...
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Women and North African Literatures
Ncube, Gibson. 2019. Women and North African Literatures. In The Palgrave Handbook of African Women’s Studies (pp. 1–17). Cham: Springer Int...
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Is it rape in the eyes of Uganda’s men or Community Perceptions on rape?
The project will involve analysis and interpretation of data collected in research aimed at interrogating societal definitions of rape.
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Self, Autonomy, Authority and Law: The Challenge of ‘Leaky Bodies’
The unity, integrity, health and prospects of collectives such as states, nations and societies are often imagined in terms of the individual human body.
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Sealing the Female Body Before Marriage: Cultural Debates about Hymeneal Signs
This project asks how reflections on the female body part called the hymen or maidenhead in early modern English texts (produced from 1500-1700) can illuminate modern debates about the set of modern surgical practices called hymenoplasty.
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Many Modernities ‐ Religious freedom in South Africa and Sweden
In Europe with a history of religious wars and big national churches, freedom of religion is often understood as freedom from, at least from institutional religion.
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Exploring interpretations of the constitution and the bible as “sacred texts” in constructing (un)equal gendered environments
Culture, religion, gender, ethnicity, race and history influence processes of identity formation and social relationships.
