Feminist Africa seeks to provide Africa-based early career researchers working on feminist/gender analysis in the social sciences with the space and intellectual community to transform a draft paper into a publishable journal piece. The need for such a workshop comes from the observation that although there is significant feminist research being conducted especially at graduate level, much of it remains unpublished and therefore its visibility and impact is minimal beyond the thesis.
Category: Calls for submissions
Call for Papers: Gender, Class and Mobility from the 1980s
Deadline for Abstracts: 30th September, 2024 All submissions and enquiries should be emailed to: contact@feministafrica.net (and copy) info@feministafrica.net Issue Editors: Dorothy Takyiakwaa and Faisal Garba Muhammed Introduction Introduction How do gender and class intersect with the experience of mobility in a political and economic climate where the physical mobility of ordinary Africans is viewed as a problem to be confronted and…
Call for Papers: Reclaiming Women’s Play: Gender, Wellbeing and the Changing African Play Cultures
Deadline for Abstracts: 30th June, 2024 All submissions and enquiries should be emailed to: contact@feministafrica.net (and copy) info@feministafrica.net Issue Editors: Sethunya Tshepho Mosime, Deborah Atobrah and Penelope Sanyu Introduction In her book “Play Like a Feminist”, Shira Chess (2020)urges women to spend more time playing, as a tool of radical disruption against not only sexism but against all other intersectional…
CLOSED: Call for abstracts for a panel submission to the African Humanities Association
We are no longer accepting submissions. Deadline for Submissions Abstract: 26th April 2023 All submissions and enquiries should be emailed to: Dr. Dorothy Takyiakwaa (dtakyiakwaa@ucc.edu.gh) We invite abstract submissions (300 words) for a panel submission for oral (in person or online)presentation at the African Humanities Association Inaugural Conference taking place from 27thNovember to 29th November…
CLOSED: Call for Paper Submissions: Pan-African Feminist Popular Education in Global Africa: Resisting and Building Locally and Globally through Liberatory Transformative Education.
We are no longer accepting submissions. Deadline for Submissions Abstract: 6th March 2023 Extended abstract: 2nd May 2023 Full paper: 30th June 2023 All submissions and enquiries should be emailed to: contact@feministafrica.net Issue Editors: Mjiba Frehiwot and Asanda Benya This special issue proposes to look at and highlight pan-African feminist popular education in global Africa….
CLOSED: Call for Paper Submissions: African Women Workers in a Changing World
We are no longer accepting submissions. Deadline for Submissions: 31st December, 2021 All submissions and enquiries should be emailed to: info@feministafrica.net Guest Editor: Akosua Keseboa Darkwah African women have long been noted as active participants in the economic spheres of their respective countries. Across the continent, written records from the nineteenth century, make it clear…