The theme for Feminist Africa 15 is linked to some of the questions raised in Feminist Africa 14 concerning the rights in the context of debates about gender, violence and sexualities. Feminist Africa 15 will focus specifically on the feminist legal activism of the past fifteen years, which has sought to create radical change in the legal frameworks which determine women’s access to status, reproductive and sexual rights, property and to freedom from violence and discrimination. The issue will include case studies on the activism undergirding the passage of particularly powerful legal activism, analyses of feminist legal activisms, and debate on the connections between legally focussed work and work which focuses on different zones of change. The co-editors of the issue will be Jane Bennett and Sylvia Tamale. Pieces for consideration (articles, profiles, book reviews, proposals for ‘In Conversations’) should be sent to jane.bennett@uct.ac.za by the end of March 2011.
Feminist Africa 16 The theme for Feminist Africa 16 will be on African feminist engagement with film, documentary, and the politics of visual representation. The co-editors of the issue will be Salem Mekuria and Yaba Badoe, and the issue will seek to explore the trajectory of feminist film-making in African contexts, the politics of audience and resources, and the achievements of cinematographic feminist visual representation on the continent in the past two decades.
Enquiries about the issue and pieces for consideration (articles, profiles, book reviews, proposals for ‘In Conversations’) should be sent to the editors at amama@ucdavis.edu; ybadoe@dircon.co.uk; smekuria@wellesley.edu by the end of Sept/early Oct 2011.
The theme for Feminist Africa 17 will be on feminist politics and practices of IC Technologies, and will be co-edited by Jennifer Radloff and Jan Moolman. The issue will explore the meaning of political activism which draws upon the multiple options of ICTs for communication and networking, and offer analysis of the implications of the “technological revolution” for African and transnational feminist work and thought. Enquiries about the issue and pieces for consideration (articles, profiles, book reviews, proposals for ‘In Conversations’) should be sent to jane. bennett@uct.ac.za by the end of June, 2011.
Feminist Africa Editor
Amina Mama
Adelene Africa, Teresa Barnes, Jane Bennett, Yaliwe Clarke, Susan Hollland-Muter and Awino Okech.