Demythologising Gender in Development: Feminist Studies in African Contexts

Feminist scholars seeking to maintain the link between theory and practice face multiple challenges as a result of the complex nexus between diverse gender politics and international development formulae. The most salient of these arise from the tension between the liberal strategy of entering mainstream institutions and networks, and the radical politics that emanate from feminist analyses of local conditions. Feminists in African contexts therefore face the intense challenges of developing innovative intellectual, pedagogical and institutional strategies, despite their weak organisational bases. The transformative capacity of feminist studies has so far depended on the capacity of African feminist thinkers to navigate the increasingly fraught intersections between local institutional demands, global development imperatives and their own visions of gender-just societies.
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