Examining interactions between democracy in South Africa and South African women's movement, this book explores the gendered nature of liberation and regime change. It confronts issues such as the tensions between autonomy and political dependency in feminists' engagement with t…
During the course of the past three decades efforts of democratisation and institutional reforms have characterised the African continent, including demands for gender equality and women's political representation. As a result, some countries have introduced affirmative action m…
Vera Mlangazua Chirwa, a lawyer and activist was born in Malawi in 1932. The country was then still under British colonial rule, and racism was ubiquitous. She was the first Malawian woman to qualify as a lawyer and a founding member of the League of Malawi Women. After sufferin…
This dissertation studies New York lawyer and women's rights advocate Dorothy Kenyon and her role in an international women's movement between the 1930s and 1950 whose goal was to identify and eliminate legal discriminations against women. Kenyon was appointed to represent the U…
The purpose of this research was to analyze popular education and leadership development among grassroots women's organizations in Kenya. This study was based on ethnographic research among women's organizations in the Nairobi, Taita and Lamu Districts of Kenya from 2007 to 2008…
