Women's movements and feminist activism

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Amanda Gouws

AMANDA GOUWS is Professor of Political Science at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in the USA. Her research focuses on women and citizenship, the national gender machinery, women’s representation and women’s movements, and she has published widely in these areas. She is the editor of (Un)Thinking Citizenship: Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa. (UK: Ashgate and Cape Town: Juta, 2005). Her edited book with Daiva Stasiulis, from Carleton University, Gender and Multiculturalism: North/South Perspectives, appeared with Routledge Press in 2014. She was a Commissioner for the South African Commission for Gender Equality from 2012 to 2014. She is currently a Distinguished Professor, holding a SARChI (SARChI Chair in Gender Politics) Chair in Gender Politics. Email: [email protected]

Azille Coetzee

AZILLE COETZEE is a postdoctoral researcher at the SARChI Chair in Gender Politics, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. She recently completed a PhD (at the Vrije University of Amsterdam and Stellenbosch University) in which she explored African feminist thought as decolonising force, in dialogue with European feminist philosophy. Her research interests include feminist philosophy, African philosophy and decolonisation. Email: [email protected]