Women were often imprisoned with their abusers, making it nearly impossible to escape.
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Women already facing structural inequalities are most affected by a lack of child support.
The ANC leans heavily on its liberation movement brand. But this will not necessarily be a determining factor in who will sway voters later this year.
The Marriage Bill should strike a balance between preserving non-discriminatory cultural and religious practices and promoting liberal values.
The news media provide a very particular case study of gender discrimination.
A younger generation of feminists will remember her, above all, for her remarkable championing of the struggle against patriarchy.
Only a small percentage of women in rural areas have access to the Internet, so participation in online activism is limited to urban centres.
Ash derided women’s liberation as “that foolishness” – but her success story is very feminist.
This book succeeds well in describing and criticising, through many examples, how whiteness works.
Moore did not unearth any treasures in his research of Mugabe’s legacy. He has not even drawn a map that might lead us to them.
The problem of gender-based violence and femicide in South Africa is structural and fuelled by inequalities that transect race, class, gender, sexuality and age.
At the heart of the issue for school children, parents, caregivers and teachers is to confront from a very young age the question of sex, sexuality and gender.
Prince Andrew has been described as the “black sheep” of the royal family, but his alleged behaviour is part of the monarchy’s long history of dismissing women.
Because of its extreme violence, the Hathras rape sent shock waves throughout India: it is a disturbing reminder of the normalization of rape culture there and should be seen as a call to action.
Increased pressure on women academics caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is magnifying the fractured landscape of gender parity in academia.
The study confirms that collecting water for daily use weighs more heavily on women, making life more difficult for especially older women.
Phones sometimes serve as a ‘digital leash’ to check women’s whereabouts - a growing feature of many relationships and conflicts.
In urban Namibia, performance poetry provides a safe space for women to share their experiences and challenge traditional ideas.
Nutrition policies offer the chance for us to think differently about men and women’s roles in society.
Underlying direct or personal violence is structural violence that is entrenched in unequal power relations in society.
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Researcher, Unit for Religion and Development Research, Faculty of Theology, Stellenbosch University
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Professor in Food Security; Head of the Department of Agricultural Economics, Extension and Rural Development, University of Pretoria
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Network and Research Manager: ARUA – UKRI GCRF FSNet Africa, University of Pretoria
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Professor, Department of Legal Studies, School of Public Policy, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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Professor of Political Science and Chair of the South African Research Initiative in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University
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Researcher, Centro Brasileiro de Análise e Planejamento (CEBRAP); University of Johannesburg
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Ph.D. Candidate, Political Science, University of Cincinnati
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Lecturer in Environmental Sustainability, University of Energy and Natural Resources
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PhD Researcher in Environmental Peacebuilding, King's College London
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PhD Candidate in Political Science, University of Cincinnati
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Assistant Professor of Psychology, NYU Shanghai
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Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester
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Associate Professor of Literature and Director, African Women's Studies Centre, University of Nairobi
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Professor of African legal pluralism, University of the Western Cape
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Professor of French, University of Leeds