Future Issues
Issues 8 & 9 (2007) ‘Rethinking Universities I’ and ‘Rethinking Universities II’ (co-edited by Amina Mama and Theresa Barnes) are currently in production. These address the experiences of women in African academic institutions that have remained deeply patriarchal and often unfriendly places for women, particularly women academics who do not conform to the dominant ethos. The features report new research findings from case studies of the leading public universities, namely the Universities of Ibadan (Nigeria), Ghana, Zimbabwe, Cape Town (South Africa) and Cheikh Anta Diop (Senegal). These highlight the daily struggles and strategies of women students seeking to pursue higher education, whereas interviews and profiles document some of the initiatives taken by feminists working in these institutions to secure them as safe spaces in which women can better realise their intellectual and creative potentials, and key women intellectuals. Overall these issues urge us to rethink the academy, pointing to the lessons of feminist activism thus far to highlight possibilities for transforming patriarchal institutions into more liberatory spaces.
Future issues currently envisaged for 2008 and 2009:
Issue 10 Militarism, Conflict and Peace-building (edited by Amina Mama and Margo-Okazawa-Rey).
Issue 11 Researching for life: Knowledge production for feminist activism (Co-edited by Jane Bennett and Amina Mama).
Issue 12 Culture
Issues 13 & 14 Violence Against Women (to be edited by Jane Bennett).