The Emergence of Gender Scholarship in South Africa – reflections on Southern Theory
| dc.contributor.author | Morrell, Robert | |
| dc.contributor.author | Clowes, Lindsay | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2016-08-30T06:33:46Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2016-08-30T06:33:46Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016-06 | |
| dc.description.abstract | The late 20th century saw a steep rise in published works on gender in South Africa. This article analyses the production of gender research against a backdrop of current interest in southern theory, theory that is produced to analyse and challenge existing global knowledge inequalities. As a domain of research, South African gender writings draw both on global feminist impulses as well as national and local ones. We discuss what this means for understanding the particularity of South Africa’s gender scholarship which we trace back to the writings of Olive Schreiner at the beginning of the 20th century. In this paper we quantitatively identify the trajectory of gender research in South Africa and consider the genealogy of South African feminist writing. We show how the focus of gender research evolved noting that it sometimes was divided on grounds of race, but often was united by opposition to patriarchy which took forms of activist scholarship. We focus on a number of themes to show how feminist scholarship developed out of engagements with questions of inequality, race, class and gender. While gender research featured a strong, almost obsessive, engagement with local, South African issues which serve to give this body of work its cohesion, it also manifested divisions that reflected the very inequalities being researched. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.apacitation | Morrell, R., & Clowes, L. (2016). <i>The Emergence of Gender Scholarship in South Africa – reflections on Southern Theory</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Aids and Society Research Unit. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21594 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.chicagocitation | Morrell, Robert, and Lindsay Clowes <i>The Emergence of Gender Scholarship in South Africa – reflections on Southern Theory.</i> University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Aids and Society Research Unit, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21594 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.citation | Morrell, R. & Clowes, L. (2016). The Emergence of Gender Scholarship in South Africa – reflections on Southern Theory. CSSR Working Paper No. 381. Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town. | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-1-77011-368-8 | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.ris | TY - Working Paper AU - Morrell, Robert AU - Clowes, Lindsay AB - The late 20th century saw a steep rise in published works on gender in South Africa. This article analyses the production of gender research against a backdrop of current interest in southern theory, theory that is produced to analyse and challenge existing global knowledge inequalities. As a domain of research, South African gender writings draw both on global feminist impulses as well as national and local ones. We discuss what this means for understanding the particularity of South Africa’s gender scholarship which we trace back to the writings of Olive Schreiner at the beginning of the 20th century. In this paper we quantitatively identify the trajectory of gender research in South Africa and consider the genealogy of South African feminist writing. We show how the focus of gender research evolved noting that it sometimes was divided on grounds of race, but often was united by opposition to patriarchy which took forms of activist scholarship. We focus on a number of themes to show how feminist scholarship developed out of engagements with questions of inequality, race, class and gender. While gender research featured a strong, almost obsessive, engagement with local, South African issues which serve to give this body of work its cohesion, it also manifested divisions that reflected the very inequalities being researched. DA - 2016-06 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2016 SM - 978-1-77011-368-8 T1 - The Emergence of Gender Scholarship in South Africa – reflections on Southern Theory TI - The Emergence of Gender Scholarship in South Africa – reflections on Southern Theory UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21594 ER - | en_ZA |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21594 | |
| dc.identifier.vancouvercitation | Morrell R, Clowes L. The Emergence of Gender Scholarship in South Africa – reflections on Southern Theory. 2016 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/21594 | en_ZA |
| dc.language | eng | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.department | Aids and Society Research Unit | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.faculty | Faculty of Humanities | en_ZA |
| dc.publisher.institution | University of Cape Town | |
| dc.rights | Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) | * |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ | en_ZA |
| dc.title | The Emergence of Gender Scholarship in South Africa – reflections on Southern Theory | en_ZA |
| dc.type | Working Paper | en_ZA |
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| uct.type.publication | Research | en_ZA |
| uct.type.resource | Working paper | en_ZA |