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Call for Contributions
Feminist Africa 4: Women Mobilised

A Feminist Africa focus on Women’s Mobilisations offers a forum for the
exploration of contemporary mobilisations of African women. We are
especially interested in critical reflection on women’s movements that
can be viewed as transformative in the sense that they offer radical
challenges to existing gender relations, inequalities and injustices.
Contributions should add to the documentation on the proliferation and
growth of new modes of organising. Feminist activists have responded to
the challenges of economic decline, dictatorship, crisis and conflict,
and to repressive civil societies in many new and undocumented ways.
Current global challenges make it all the more urgent to critically
engage with the changing modes of activism.

African women have both mobilised themselves and been mobilised by their
societies through the ages in a rich variety of ways only some of which
are reflected in the scholarly literature. The manifestations of women’s
mobilisation have evolved and taken new forms that respond to the
particular challenges of the nationalist and post-nationalist eras.
These have included old and new modes of organisation, and new struggles
situated within the broader efforts to establish African states, to
modernise and develop African societies. Later women joined in
democratic struggles and to resist the constraints imposed by
increasingly stringent, externally imposed economic regimes. Finally the
context of globalisation now poses its own dilemmas and challenges for
African women’s movements.

What do African feminists make of the current scenario, and what does a
critical analysis reveal about the current state of women’s movements in
Africa?  What futures do we imagine from the vantage point of our
particular locations, and what can we draw from the wealth of experience
accumulated across a continent where women’s mobilisations have so long
been a central feature of changing worlds.

Submissions would include feature articles; review articles; profiles of
individuals, events or organisations; opinion pieces, interviews and
other short articles.

Abstracts of submissions must be sent to info at feministafrica.org by no
later than 30 April 2004.

About the Journal

Feminist Africa is a publication of the African Gender Institute at the
University of Cape Town, South Africa.

The journal has grown out of the Institute’s many years of commitment to
teaching gender studies, building capacity, research and networking in
Africa, in an environment where market-oriented approaches now threaten
to undermine progressive African gender initiatives.

Feminist Africa provides a platform for cutting-edge, informative and
provocative gender work attuned to African agendas. As the first journal
on gender with a continental focus, Feminist Africa provides a forum for
the publication and dissemination of high-quality feminist scholarship
in African contexts. The journal promotes the incisive combination of
intellectual rigour and political insight and accommodates contributions
ranging from feature articles to short reports, interviews or
journalistic writings. The emphasis is on generating African discourses
on gendered implications of a range of African political, educational,
cultural and historical concerns across the humanities and social
sciences.

Visit the Feminist Africa website at http://www.feministafrica.org.

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