- Title
- Report of the Conference on Women and Gender in Southern Africa, 30 January to 3 February 1991
- Creator
- Gender Research Group Conference Planning Committee
- Creator
- University of Natal
- Subject
- Women – Political activity – Africa, Southern -- Congresses
- Subject
- South Africa -- Politics and government
- Subject
- Government, Resistance to – South Africa
- Subject
- Women – Social conditions – Africa, Southern -- Congresses
- Subject
- Women in development – Africa, Southern -- Congresses
- Date Issued
- 1991-02-03
- Date
- 1991-02-03
- Type
- text
- Type
- conference publication
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/58278
- Identifier
- vital:27139
- Identifier
- This item is held at the Cory Library for Humanities Research at Rhodes University. For further information contact cory@ru.ac.za. The digitisation of this image was made possible through a generous grant received from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation 2014-2017.
- Description
- Women’s studies and courses which incorporate gender into their analysis have slowly, over the last five or six years, been gaining a toe-hold at South African universities. More and more academics, most of them women, are doing research in the area. Despite this, Women’s and Gender Studies are often marginalised and lecturers have to fight for the space to teach them. Papers on women tend to be ghettoised at conferences. Thus at its first meeting in 1989 the Gender Research Group (GRG) felt the need to celebrate this growing area of work being produced under difficult conditions by organising a conference. The purpose of the conference was to stimulate further research and provide a forum for the work people were already doing. The organising committee wanted the conference to be a place for debate with an emphasis on research and theory. The Conference was organised around four main themes: * Race, class and gender * Culture and ideology * Organising women and policy * Everyday life. It was the first academic conference in South Africa to focus directly on women’s and gender issues. It was attended by participants from most southern African countries as well as southern Africanists from the USA, Britain, Canada and the Netherlands. There were sixty-four papers, some presented in plenary discussion and others in smaller parallel sessions. In addition, two panel discussions were organised, one on ‘Conceptualising gender’ and the other on ‘Organising women’ The conference was followed by two one-day workshops - ‘Teaching Women’s Studies’ and ‘Gender and Popular Education’.
- Format
- Format
- 41 pages
- Publisher
- University of Natal
- Language
- English
- Rights
- University of Natal
- Rights
- Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
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