Amina Mama
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Amina Mama
Prof. Dr. Amina Mama is Chair in Gender Studies at the University of Cape Town.
Amina Mama taught in social studies and gender studies at a number of European and International Institutions before taking up the position of Chair in Gender Studies and Director of the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town.
She has also worked outside the academic mainstream, as a researcher and consultant to various international bodies, and with an array of non-governmental and women's organisations.
She holds a doctorate in Organisational Psychology from the University of London. Her current research interests centre around bringing gender analysis to bear on subjectivity, social relations and politics. Her major research projects have addressed women in government and politics in a variety of African contexts, militarism, women's organisations and movements, race and subjectivity. She is one of the initators of the E-Journal Feminist Africa.
Recent Related Writing (since 2000)
Forthcoming: ‘Restore, Reform, but do not Transform: Gender and Higher Education in Africa’ Journal of Higher Education in Africa No 1 (submitted).
Forthcoming: Daring to Dream: Designing a Methodology for Visioning African Higher Education, Ford Foundation.
2002(ed) ‘Feminist Africa’ Iss No 1 ‘Intellectual Politics’ African Gender Institute, University of Cape Town.
2002 Research Networks in Africa, Association of African Universities (unpub).
2001 ‘Challenging Subjects: Gender, Power and Identity in African Contexts’, Nordic Africa Institute Monograph, (repub in South African Journal of Sociology iss 5 no2: 63-73).
2001 ‘Violence Against Black Women in the Home’ in J Hanmer and D Wigglesworth eds Home Truths About Domestic Violence, Routledge, London/NY.
2000 Feminism and the State in Africa: Towards an Analysis of the National Machinery for Women, National Machinery Series No.1, TWN-Africa, Accra.
2000 ‘Women’s Studies in Subsaharan Africa’ in Kramerae, C & Spender, D (eds) Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women: Global Women’s Issues and Knowledge, Routledge, London/NY.
