Vulnerabilities of Feminist Engagement and the Challenge of Developmentalism in the South: What Alternatives?

In the 1980s Marjorie Mbilinyi observed that women’s studies was simply catching up with the policy-oriented applied research (POAR) trends and reliance on external funding characteristic of social science in general in neocolonial Africa (1984: 291). In this observation, Mbilinyi sought to highlight the fact that the general roll-out of women’s studies at the time did not promise enough in the direction of rigorous questioning, with many efforts locked up in integrationist as opposed to transformatory…

By: Josephine Ahikire

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