{"id":92,"date":"2015-04-30T16:52:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-30T16:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/?page_id=92"},"modified":"2015-09-11T17:49:09","modified_gmt":"2015-09-11T17:49:09","slug":"capetown-seminar","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/capetown-seminar\/","title":{"rendered":"Cape Town: The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Contemporary African Contexts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"osc-res-tab tabbable   osc-tabs-left\"><div style=\"clear:both;width: 100%;\"><ul class=\"nav osc-res-nav nav-tabs osc-tabs-left-ul\" id=\"oscitas-restabs-1-capetown-seminar-86347\"><li class=\"active\"><a href=\"#ert_pane1-0\" data-toggle=\"tab\">Overview<\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#ert_pane1-1\" data-toggle=\"tab\">Syllabus 2015<\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#ert_pane1-2\" data-toggle=\"tab\">Syllabus 2013<\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#ert_pane1-3\" data-toggle=\"tab\">Photos &amp; Videos<\/a><\/li><li class=\"\"><a href=\"#ert_pane1-4\" data-toggle=\"tab\">Faculty Profiles<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/div><div style=\"clear:both;width: 100%;\"><ul class=\"tab-content\" id=\"oscitas-restabcontent-1-capetown-seminar-86347\"><li class=\"tab-pane active\" id=\"ert_pane1-0\"><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Cape_Town_postcard.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-372\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Cape_Town_postcard.jpg\" alt=\"Cape Town postcard\" width=\"690\" height=\"523\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Cape_Town_postcard.jpg 1624w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Cape_Town_postcard-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Cape_Town_postcard-1024x777.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 690px) 100vw, 690px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This special course organized by the Barnard Center for Research on Women is designed to introduce Barnard College students to research possibilities in South Africa and to experience transnational feminist pedagogies in practice. Participants concentrate on the politics of gender and sexuality in contemporary South Africa and in its relations with its neighbors.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We do this in the littoral city of Cape Town in which different histories and contemporary struggles converge. These are histories of colonialism and slavery; histories of resistance; histories of liberation struggles; and feminist and anti-imperial organizing. We also consider Cape Town\u2019s relation to South Africa\u2019s immediate and wider neighbors on the African continent, but we make no attempt to universalize either Cape Town or Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Through our host, the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/agi.ac.za\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">African Gender Institute<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, we focus on spaces in which activists, educators, and artists think and work to imagine their local and transnational relations and affiliations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The course is designed and co-taught by Barnard Professor of Africana Studies and English Literature, Yvette Christianse, and the Director of the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town, Professor Jane Bennett. Guest speakers are drawn from visiting faculty and researchers at the African Gender Institute, as well as other institutions in Cape Town, exposing students to different pedagogical styles and methods. The seminar first took place in the summer of 2013, and was repeated in August 2015.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Barnard students will be joined by students from Rutgers University while also interacting with students at the University of Cape Town.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><i><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-326 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-19-at-11.44.41-AM.png\" alt=\"University of Cape Town Campus, Home of the African Gender Institute\" width=\"689\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-19-at-11.44.41-AM.png 689w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-19-at-11.44.41-AM-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 689px) 100vw, 689px\" \/><\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><i>Why Cape Town, South Africa?\u00a0<\/i><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although popular media often stigmatizes South African women and men as being poor and economically victimized, the reality is that the post-apartheid years since 1994 \u00a0have seen an extraordinary set of ideas about how to think about the past in an era of \u201cnew democracy,\u201d and about how to imagine and bring into life initiatives capable of ensuring deep decolonization. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The last country on the African continent to achieve political independence, South Africa is simultaneously the first to be governed by a constitution whose Bill of Rights guarantees protection from multiple forms of violence and discrimination. The last country on the African continent to fight successfully against apartheid-based legislative control of economic injustice, South Africa also remains \u2013 with Brazil \u2013 first in the world in terms of the size of the gap between its richest and poorest citizens. It is a country of contradiction and vibrancies, one inextricably linked to colonial histories of the Atlantic and Indian oceans as much as to histories of the rest of the continent. And it is also in tenuous, yet wildly energetic and self-referential, debate on what it might mean to \u201cbe South African.\u201d \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within all these dynamics, questions of gender and sexualities complicate the shape of what the past, present, and future might mean within South Africa. While at one level, 1994 saw dramatic shifts in the numbers of women in parliament and other formal institutions, at<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">another, the leading profession for urban poor and working class black women remains domestic service. Similarly, while new possibilities of imagining femininities and masculinities play themselves out across media, art, and web-spaces, conservative gender norms concerning \u201cgendered respectability\u201d haunt young people\u2019s options, and lead directly to violence against gender non-conformity. \u201cSeeing\u201d the dynamics of gender and sexualities in the contemporary South African world leads to new ways of asking questions about history, and of making connections between spaces, differently located but equally perplexed by the project of \u201cbecoming human\u2019 in economically and politically changing places.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/li><li class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"ert_pane1-1\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>EXPLORING THE POLITICS OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY SOUTH AFRICAN CONTEXTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cape Town<br \/>\nAugust 3 &#8211; August 14, 2015<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Department of Africana Studies and Barnard Center for Research on Women (Barnard College), African Gender Institute (University of Capetown), and the Institute for Women\u2019s Leadership (Rutgers University)<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Overview <\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given the fact that the course will be hosted by the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town, in Cape Town, South Africa, the course will open by asking questions about \u201creading a South African context\u201d from within the Cape Town city space, and then spend sessions focusing on broader South African realities. Intellectually, we will be interested in several theoretical questions. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The first concerns the difficulty of \u201creading\u201d space and history from the perspective of the \u201coutsider,\u201d and we will draw on theories of transnational knowledges and positionalities to develop discussion. The second question asks about the location of the politics of gender and sexuality within hegemonic narratives of oppression, liberation, and democracy, phases of South Africa history typically generated within popular discourse. As we will discover, such phases may not be helpful in coming to terms with questions of embodiment, violence, reproduction and desire and intimacy. \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The course will include visual, spatial, written (archival, theoretical, imaginative), and \u201cembodied\u201d texts, and will require in-depth participant engagement with these.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because the African Gender Institute is located in a city saturated in the meaning of slavery, colonial machinery, the culture of the liberation struggles, and the experiences of diverse forms of feminist and anti-imperialist organizing, the course will include visits to different spaces in the city and engage with artists, community-based leaders and activists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This course is especially designed for juniors and seniors in a range of majors who want to forge new linkages between their knowledges of global political change, gender and sexuality, and feminist theory and activism. An interest in African contexts will clearly be essential, but there is no expectation in the curriculum that participants will already have spent a lot of time studying these contexts. \u00a0The course will focus on South Africa, but will also include some discussion on colonial pasts and legacies throughout the continent, \u00a0as these have had a profound impact on the contemporary politics of gender and sexuality in South Africa.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i>Shape of Curriculum<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The course is designed to cover ten full days of engagement with textual and visual material, lectures, participant-based input, interaction with a wide range of sites (such as art galleries, activist NGOs), and with students based at the University of Cape Town. A typical day will include travel to at least one site of interest, formal input by the course lecturers and\/or a guest lecturer, visual material, intensive discussion, and the opportunity for personal reflection and exploration. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants will need to READ 25-35 pages in preparation for each day\u2019s work, and on most evenings, to compete a short homework writing\/visual-creation assignment.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Participants will be asked to create writing, in a numbers of genres, engaging the course materials and discussions, and this will form a key part of the curriculum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Readings<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abrahams, Naeemah, S. Mathews, R. Jewkes, L. J. Martin, and C. Lombard. \u201cEvery Eight Hours: Intimate Femicide in South Africa 10 years later.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MRC Research Brief<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (August 2012) \u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrc.ac.za\/policybriefs\/everyeighthours.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.mrc.ac.za\/policybriefs\/everyeighthours.pdf<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ben-Ascher, Noa, R. Bruce Brasell, Daniel Garret, John Greyson, Jack Lewis, and Susan Newton-King. \u201cScreening Historical Sexualities: A Roundtable on Sodomy, South Africa and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proteus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GLQ<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Vol. 11, No. 3, 2005: 437-455. Print &amp; Electronic. <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Christianse, Yvette. excerpts from<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> Unconfessed<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Cape Town: Kwela Book, 2007.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Deacon, Harriet. excerpts from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Island: A History of Robben Island: 1488-1990<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Cape Town: David Philip Publishers and Mayibuye Centre, 1996.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">De Kok, Ingrid. \u00a0\u201cWhat Kind of Man?\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Terrestrial Things<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2002: 25-27. Print.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Henry, Yazir. \u00a0Testimony. Case No. CT00405. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Truth and Reconciliation Commission: UWC Victims Hearing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Tuesday, 6 August, 1996. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.justice.gov.za\/trc\/hrvtrans%5Chelder\/ct00405.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.justice.gov.za\/trc\/hrvtrans%5Chelder\/ct00405.htm<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jobson, G., Theron, L., Kaggwa, J. and H-J Kim. \u201cTransgender in Africa: Invisible, inaccessible or ignored. \u201c <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SAHARA-<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">J 9, no. 3 (November 2012). (accessible on VULA).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kapstein, H. \u201cA Travel Paradise: Tourism Narratives of Robben Island.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Safundi<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 10, no 4 (2009).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Le Roux, G. \u201cProudly Africa and Transgender.\u201d In <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women: A Cultural Review<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> 23, no. 1 (2012).<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mashanini, Emma. excerpts from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Strikes Have Followed Me All My Life<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matebeni, Zethu. Introduction to <\/span><i>Queer Afrika<\/i><\/li>\n<li><b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Matthews, Shanoaz, N. Abrahams, L. J. Martin, L. Vetten, L. Merwe, and R. Jewkes. \u201c\u2018Every six hours a woman is killed by her intimate partner\u2019: A National Study on Female Homicide in South Africa.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MRC Policy Brief<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, no. 5 (June 2004) <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrc.ac.za\/policybriefs\/woman.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.mrc.ac.za\/policybriefs\/woman.pdf<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mgqolozana, Thando. excerpts from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Man Who is Not a Man<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mhlope, Gina. excerpts from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Toilet<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moele, Kgebetli. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Room 207<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Kwela Books, 2011.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Motsemme,<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nthabiseng. \u201cThe Mute Always Speak: Women\u2019s Silences at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Current Sociology<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (September 2004): 909-932. Print &amp; Electronic.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Muholi, Zanele. \u201cThinking through lesbian rape.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Agenda <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">18, no. 61 (2004).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ngcobo, Lauretta. excerpts from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And They Didn\u2019t Die<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ratele, Kopano. \u201cApartheid, Anti-Apartheid and Post-Apartheid Sexuality.\u201d In M. Steyn and M. van Zyl, The Prize and the Price, Cape Town: Kwela Books, 2009.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samuelson, Meg, \u201c\u2018Lose Your Mother! Kill Your Child!\u2019: The passage of Slavery and Its Afterlife in Narratives by Yvette Christianse and Saidiya Hartman,\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Studies of English in Africa <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">51, no 2 (2008).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Wiccomb, Zoe. excerpts from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You Can\u2019t Get Lost in Cape Town<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Xaba, Makhosazana. excerpts from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Running<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Archives<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Professor Christianse will facilitate a special engagement with the colonial archives, exploring documents, which offer \u2018a reading\u2019 of historical lives of enslaved women, people criminalized as \u2018sodomites,\u2019 and others. Examples of such documents include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KAB LEER 1\/2\/1\/2. The King versus Christoffel Rudolph Botha. Sodomy. Record of Proceedings of Criminal Case. Circuit Court, Somerset. No. 7. 1828.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">_______. The King versus William Robertshaw. Sodomy. Record of Proceedings of Criminal Case. Circuit Court, Somerset. No. 8. 1828.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Films and Theatre<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Proteus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2003), John Greyson.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">excerpts from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jerusalema<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2008)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">screening of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over the Hill <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(1985), Paul Slabolepszy.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Difficult Love<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2011), Zanele Muholi. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nothing But the Truth<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2008), John Kani.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Born in the RSA<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Barney Simon.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Suggested Additional\u00a0Readings\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Anthology Excerpts<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lihamba, Aminata and Fulata L. Moyo, M. M. Mulokozi, Naomi L. Shitemi, and Sa\u00efda Yahya- Othman. Eds. Introduction to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women Writing Africa: The Eastern Region<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, vol. 3. New York: The Feminist Press, 2007: pp. 1-67.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Susan Arndt. \u201cAfrican Gender Trouble and African Womanism: An Interview with Chikwenye Ogunyemi, and Wanjira Muthoni.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Signs<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Spring 2000): 709-726.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sutherland-Addy, Esi and Aminata Diaw. Introduction to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women Writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vol. 2. New York: The Feminist Press, 2005: 1-83.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nowaira, Amira and Azza El Kholy, Marjorie Lightman, Zahia Smail Salhi, Fatima Sadiqi, Moha Ennaji, Nadia El Kholy and Sahar Hamouda. Eds. Introduction to <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women Writing Africa: The Northern Region<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Vol. 4. New York: The Feminist Press, 2009: 1-59.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Reading\u2014Essays\/Articles<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Graham, Lucy Valerie. \u201c\u2018A Hidden Side to the Story\u2019: Reading Rape in Recent South African Literature.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Vol. 24, Nos. 1-2: 9-24.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hay, Margaret Jean. \u201cQueens, Prostitutes and Peasants: Historical Perspectives on African Women, 1971\u20131986.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Canadian Journal of African Studies\/Revue Canadienne des Etudes Africanes. Special Issue: Current Research on African Women. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Vol. 22, No. 3. (1988): 431-447.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ndebele, Njabulo. \u201cThinking of Brenda.\u201d Paper delivered at Grahamstown Arts Festival, Winter School, 2000.\u00a0 <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ogundipe-Leslie, Molara. \u201cThe Female Writer and Her Commitment.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">African Literature Today, Special Issue: Women in African Literature<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Eds. Eldred Durosimi Jones et al: 5-13.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Samuelson, Meg. \u201cThe Rainbow Womb: Rape and Race in South African Fiction of the Transition.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Vol. 24, Nos. 1-2: 88-100.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">White, E. Frances. \u201c\u2018The Dark Continent of Our Bodies\u2019: Constructing Science, Race and Womanhood in the Nineteenth Century.\u201d <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Dark Continent of Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996: 81-116.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Music<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumbancha.com\/chiwoniso\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chiwoniso<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rebel Woman. Cumbancha, 2008. CD.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Live at Afro-Pfingsten Festival 2007. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumbancha.com\/chiwoniso\/videos#video-chiwoniso-afro-pfingstenfestival-2007\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.cumbancha.com\/chiwoniso\/videos#video-chiwoniso-afro-pfingstenfestival-2007<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maraire, Chiwoniso. \u2018Vanorapa.\u2019 Vanorapa. Cumbancha, 2008.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">_______. \u2018Wandirisa.\u2019 Recorded at Wezimbabwe. <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumbancha.com\/chiwoniso\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.cumbancha.com\/chiwoniso<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Chiwonisa Maraire and The Mbira @ Lula Thursday-2008 Small.\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z9FRlefaTCY\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z9FRlefaTCY<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maraire, Chiwoniso and Chris Christofferson. \u2018Song for Leila Al Akbar.\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3lIbpYJk1Q\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3lIbpYJk1Q<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Brenda Fassie (Madonna of The Townships)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Black President.\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ERnAy7Exzzw\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ERnAy7Exzzw<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Too Late For Mama.\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=__bo-yUylLY\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=__bo-yUylLY<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Vuli Ndlela\u2019 Lyrics on http:\/\/www.lyricsmania.com\/ \u2013 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jxOepJiw4K4&amp;mode=related&amp;search\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jxOepJiw4K4&amp;mode=related&amp;search<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018lala-kakuhle.\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SB-Z75jUX0Y&amp;mode=related&amp;search\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SB-Z75jUX0Y&amp;mode=related&amp;search<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">= <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Ama-gents.\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nrinswnda3Q&amp;mode=related&amp;search\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nrinswnda3Q&amp;mode=related&amp;search<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">=<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Touch Somebody.\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7sE2xSSkqAc\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7sE2xSSkqAc<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumbancha.com\/dobetgnahore\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dobet Gnahor\u00e9<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gnahor\u00e9, Dobet. Na Afriki. Cumbancha, 2007. CD.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumbancha.com\/freshlyground\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Freshly Ground<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yvonne Chaka Chaka<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018I\u2019m in love with the DJ.\u2019 \u2013 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UVnwQ4K7pQ4&amp;mode=related&amp;search\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UVnwQ4K7pQ4&amp;mode=related&amp;search<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">= <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Mamaland.\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KkXzCGSoNGk&amp;mode=related&amp;search\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KkXzCGSoNGk&amp;mode=related&amp;search<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">= <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u2018Stimela.\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dQEyKmAW14&amp;mode=related&amp;search\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dQEyKmAW14&amp;mode=related&amp;search<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">= <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Karen Zoid<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Afrikaners is Plesierig\u2019\/ \u2018Afrikaners are Pleasant.\u2019 <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9pxeOeQ0_ag\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9pxeOeQ0_ag<\/span><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Useful Websites<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Art South Africa: http:\/\/www.artsouthafrica.com<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Black Contemporary Art: http:\/\/blackcontemporaryart.tumblr.com<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Books Live: http:\/\/bookslive.co.za<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Centre for the Book: http:\/\/www.nlsa.ac.za\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=53&amp;Itemid=41<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chimurenga Magazine: http:\/\/www.chimurenga.co.za<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CODESRIA Gender Programme: http:\/\/www.codesria.org\/spip.php?article252&amp;lang=en<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Goodman Gallery: http:\/\/www.goodman-gallery.com<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cumbancha. http:\/\/www.cumbancha.com<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">International Resource Network: http:\/\/www.irnweb.org<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kubatana.net: http:\/\/www.kubatana.net\/html\/sectors\/wom010.asp<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Little White Bakkie\u2013eBooks from Africa: http:\/\/www.littlewhitebakkie.com<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mail &amp; Guardian: http:\/\/mg.co.za<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out in Africa: http:\/\/www.oia.co.za<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pambazuka News. http:\/\/www.pambazuka.org\/en\/<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pan African Space Station: http:\/\/panafricanspacestation.org.za<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">South African Film: http:\/\/www.safilm.org.za<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stevenson Gallery: http:\/\/www.stevenson.info\/index.html<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Women\u2019s Consortium of Nigeria: http:\/\/www.womenconsortiumofnigeria.org<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zanzibar International Film Festival: http:\/\/www.ziff.or.tz<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zimvibes: www.Zimvibes.com<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/li><li class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"ert_pane1-2\"><\/p>\n<h3>THE POLITICS OF GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN CONTEXTS<\/h3>\n<p>Cape Town 22 July to 2 August 2013<\/p>\n<p>Barnard College, African Gender Institute and Rutgers University<\/p>\n<p><strong>Note to Participants<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The aim of this reading list is to provide you with some contexts\u2014 politics, theoretical, cultural, social, and historical. These readings include three set books and a set of essays. There is also a selection of suggested further readings and a set of links to music and websites that may be of interest. Some of these first readings concentrate on South Africa, for practical and obvious reasons but you will soon see how connected they are to neighboring countries and further afield.<\/p>\n<p>Be adventurous in your reading. Go online. Go to the library. Follow up any question you have about the work you read. Do not be afraid of starting your own research of any names or issues that come up in your reading. This will help give you a great start to a course designed to be an exciting introduction to some of the key issues and debates underpinning the politics of gender and sexuality in contemporary African contexts.<\/p>\n<h3>Required books<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Bernstein, Alison and Jacklyn Cock. <em>Melting Pots and Rainbow Nations: Conversations about Difference and the United States and South Africa<\/em>. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 2001.<\/li>\n<li>Christians\u00eb, Yvette. <em>Unconfessed<\/em>. New York: Other Press, 2006.<\/li>\n<li>Tamale, Sylvia. Ed. <em>African Sexualities: A Reader<\/em>. Cape Town: Pambazuka Press, 2011.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Pre-Arrival Videos<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"YouTube Video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yL3HXXsd3Oc\">Cape Town (2012)<\/a> A modest video introduction to Cape Town, thanks to YouTube.com: This gives you a sense of the city. And it even shows the road you will take coming from the airport in the first moments. There is a voice over that gives a set of introductory remarks. The video shows you one of the places that we will visit: the Old Slave Lodge. You will also see the BoKaap or Upper Cape, which is a national monument and not far from where you will be lodged.<\/li>\n<li><span id=\"eow-title\" class=\"watch-title \" dir=\"ltr\" title=\"Cape Town and Surroundings HD - South Africa Travel Channel 24\"><a title=\"YouTube Video\" href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cjhr-T6itEE\">Cape Town and Surroundings &#8211; South Africa Travel Channel<\/a>\u00a0<\/span> This is a professional, \u2018touristy\u2019 video that refers to Cape Town as a \u2018she,\u2019 but it also gives you good sense of the place to which you are going.<\/li>\n<li>http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xTw59IdzG8I (unavailable) This video by journeyman.tv\/BBC that gives the primarily masculine political overview of Robben Island, which you will also visit (weather permitting). The earlier history is covered in <em>Unconfessed<\/em>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Essays\/Articles<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Abrahams, Yvette. \u2018\u201cYour Silence Will Not Protect You\u201d: Silence, Voice and Power Moving Beyond Violence Towards Revolution in South Africa.\u2019 <em>Outliers: A Collection of Essays and Creative Work on Sexuality in Africa<\/em>. No. 1: 30-45. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irnweb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Outliers-no.-1.pdf\">http:\/\/www.irnweb.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Outliers-no.-1.pdf<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Bennett, Jane. \u2018Subversion and Resistance: Activist Initiatives.\u2019 <em>African Sexualities: A Reader<\/em>. Ed. Sylvia Tamale. Cape Town: Pambazuka Press, 2011: 77-100.<\/li>\n<li>Daymond, M. J. Et al, \u2018Introduction.\u2019 <em>Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region<\/em>. Vol. 1. New York: The Feminist Press, 2003: 1-82.<\/li>\n<li>Horn, Jessica. \u2018A Night in Zanzibar\u2014Life Story and Poem.\u2019 <em>African Sexualities: A Reader<\/em>. Ed. Sylvia Tamale. Cape Town: Pambazuka Press, 2011: 184-186.<\/li>\n<li>Lewis, Desiree. \u2018Representing African Sexualities.\u2019 <em>African Sexualities: A Reader<\/em>. Ed. Sylvia Tamale. Cape Town: Pambazuka Press, 2011: 199-216.<\/li>\n<li>Massaquoi, Notisha. \u2018The Continent as a Closet: The Making of an African Queery Theory.\u2019 <em>Outliers: A Collection of Essays and Creative Work on Sexuality in Africa<\/em>. Vol 1: pp. 50-60. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irnweb.org\/wpcontent\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Outliers-no.-1.pdf\">http:\/\/www.irnweb.org\/wpcontent\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Outliers-no.-1.pdf<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Nyek, S. N. \u2018Impossible Africans.\u2019 <em>Outliers: A Collection of Essays and Creative Work on Sexuality in Africa<\/em>. No. 1:5-8. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irnweb.org\/wpcontent\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Outliers-no.-1.pdf\">http:\/\/www.irnweb.org\/wpcontent\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Outliers-no.-1.pdf<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Tamale, Sylvia. \u2018Introduction.\u2019 <em>African Sexualities: A Reader<\/em>. Cape Town: Pambazuka Press, 2011: 1-6.<\/li>\n<li>_______. \u2018Researching and Theorising Sexualities in Africa.\u2019 African Sexualities: A Reader. Cape Town: Pambazuka Press: 2011, 11-36.<\/li>\n<li>Nkabinde, Nkunzi Zandile. Black Bull, Ancestors and Me: My Life as a Lesbian Sangoma. Auckland Park: Fanele, 2008: 1-25, 77-95, 121-131.<\/li>\n<li>Neema, Ghenim. \u2018The Chess Game.\u2019 <em>Outliers: A Collection of Essays and Creative Work on Sexuality in Africa<\/em>. No.2: 56-58. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.irnweb.org\/wpcontent\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Outliers-no.-1.pdf\">http:\/\/www.irnweb.org\/wpcontent\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Outliers-no.-1.pdf<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Shaikh, Sa\u2019diyya. \u2018Morality, Justice and Gender: Reading Muslim Tradition on Reproductive Choices.\u2019 <em>African Sexualities: A Reader<\/em>. Ed. Sylvia Tamale. Cape Town: Pambazuka Press, 2011: 340-358.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Suggested Further Readings<\/h3>\n<h4>Anthology Excerpts<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Lihamba, Aminata and Fulata L. Moyo, M. M. Mulokozi, Naomi L. Shitemi, and Sa\u00efda Yahya- Othman. Eds. \u2018Introduction.\u2019 <em>Women Writing Africa: The Eastern Region<\/em>. Vol. 3. New York: The Feminist Press, 2007: pp. 1-67.<\/li>\n<li>Susan Arndt. \u2018African Gender Trouble and African Womanism: An Interview with Chikwenye Ogunyemi, and Wanjira Muthoni.\u2019 <em>Signs<\/em>. Vol. 25, No. 3 (Spring 2000): 709-726.<\/li>\n<li>Sutherland-Addy, Esi and Aminata Diaw. \u2018Introduction.\u2019 <em>Women Writing Africa: West Africa and the Sahel<\/em>. Vol. 2. New York: The Feminist Press, 2005: 1-83.<\/li>\n<li>Nowaira, Amira and Azza El Kholy, Marjorie Lightman, Zahia Smail Salhi, Fatima Sadiqi, Moha Ennaji, Nadia El Kholy and Sahar Hamouda. Eds. \u2018Introduction.\u2019 <em>Women Writing Africa: The Northern Region<\/em>. Vol. 4. New York: The Feminist Press, 2009: 1-59.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Reading\u2014Essays\/Articles<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Graham, Lucy Valerie. \u2018A Hidden Side to the Story\u2019: Reading Rape in Recent South African Literature. <em>Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing<\/em>. Vol. 24, Nos. 1-2: 9-24.<\/li>\n<li>Hay, Margaret Jean. \u2018Queens, Prostitutes and Peasants: Historical Perspectives on African Women, 1971\u20131986.\u2019 <em>Canadian Journal of African Studies\/Revue Canadienne des Etudes Africanes<\/em>. Special Issue: Current Research on African Women. Vol. 22, No. 3. (1988): 431-447.<\/li>\n<li>Ndebele, Njabulo. \u2018Thinking of Brenda.\u2019 Paper delivered at Grahamstown Arts Festival, Winter School, 2000. <a href=\"http:\/\/%20www.music.org.za\/ editorial.asp?ID=22&amp;v=true\">http:\/\/ www.music.org.za\/ editorial.asp?ID=22&amp;v=true<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Ogundipe-Leslie, Molara. \u2018The Female Writer and Her Commitment.\u2019 <em>African Literature Today, Special Issue: Women in African Literature<\/em>. Eds. Eldred Durosimi Jones et al: 5-13.<\/li>\n<li>Samuelson, Meg. \u2018The Rainbow Womb: Rape and Race in South African Fiction of the Transition.\u2019 <em>Kunapipi: Journal of Post-Colonial Writing<\/em>. Vol. 24, Nos. 1-2: 88-100.<\/li>\n<li>White, E. Frances. \u2018The Dark Continent of Our Bodies: \u2018Constructing Science, Race and Womanhood in the Nineteenth Century.\u2019 <em>The Dark Continent of Black Feminism and the Politics of Respectability<\/em>. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996: 81-116.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Music<\/h3>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumbancha.com\/chiwoniso\">Chiwoniso<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Rebel Woman. Cumbancha, 2008. CD.<\/li>\n<li>Live at Afro-Pfingsten Festival 2007. http:\/\/www.cumbancha.com\/chiwoniso\/videos#video-chiwoniso-afro-pfingstenfestival-2007<\/li>\n<li>Maraire, Chiwoniso. \u2018Vanorapa.\u2019 Vanorapa. Cumbancha, 2008.<\/li>\n<li>_______. \u2018Wandirisa.\u2019 Recorded at Wezimbabwe. http:\/\/www.cumbancha.com\/chiwoniso<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Chiwonisa Maraire and The Mbira @ Lula Thursday-2008 Small.\u2019 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=z9FRlefaTCY<\/li>\n<li>Maraire, Chiwoniso and Chris Christofferson. \u2018Song for Leila Al Akbar.\u2019 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3lIbpYJk1Q<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Brenda Fassie (Madonna of The Townships)<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018Black President.\u2019 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ERnAy7Exzzw<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Too Late For Mama.\u2019 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=__bo-yUylLY<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Vuli Ndlela\u2019 Lyrics on http:\/\/www.lyricsmania.com\/ &#8211; http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jxOepJiw4K4&amp;mode=related&amp;search<\/li>\n<li>\u2018lala-kakuhle.\u2019 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=SB-Z75jUX0Y&amp;mode=related&amp;search=<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Ama-gents.\u2019 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nrinswnda3Q&amp;mode=related&amp;search=<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Touch Somebody.\u2019 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=7sE2xSSkqAc<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumbancha.com\/dobetgnahore\">Dobet Gnahor\u00e9<\/a><\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Gnahor\u00e9, Dobet. Na Afriki. Cumbancha, 2007. CD.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cumbancha.com\/freshlyground\">Freshly Ground<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4>Yvonne Chaka Chaka<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>\u2018I\u2019m in love with the DJ.\u2019 &#8211; http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UVnwQ4K7pQ4&amp;mode=related&amp;search=<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Mamaland.\u2019 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KkXzCGSoNGk&amp;mode=related&amp;search=<\/li>\n<li>\u2018Stimela.\u2019 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=dQEyKmAW14&amp;mode=related&amp;search=<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Karen Zoid<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li>Afrikaners is Plesierig\u2019\/ \u2018Afrikaners are Pleasant.\u2019 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=9pxeOeQ0_ag<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Useful Websites<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Art South Africa: http:\/\/www.artsouthafrica.com<\/li>\n<li>Black Contemporary Art: http:\/\/blackcontemporaryart.tumblr.com<\/li>\n<li>Books Live: http:\/\/bookslive.co.za<\/li>\n<li>Centre for the Book: http:\/\/www.nlsa.ac.za\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=53&amp;Itemid=41<\/li>\n<li>Chimurenga Magazine: http:\/\/www.chimurenga.co.za<\/li>\n<li>CODESRIA Gender Programme: http:\/\/www.codesria.org\/spip.php?article252&amp;lang=en<\/li>\n<li>Goodman Gallery: http:\/\/www.goodman-gallery.com<\/li>\n<li>Cumbancha. http:\/\/www.cumbancha.com<\/li>\n<li>International Resource Network: http:\/\/www.irnweb.org<\/li>\n<li>Kubatana.net: http:\/\/www.kubatana.net\/html\/sectors\/wom010.asp<\/li>\n<li>Little White Bakkie&#8211;eBooks from Africa: http:\/\/www.littlewhitebakkie.com<\/li>\n<li>Mail &amp; Guardian: http:\/\/mg.co.za<\/li>\n<li>Out in Africa: http:\/\/www.oia.co.za<\/li>\n<li>Pambazuka News. http:\/\/www.pambazuka.org\/en\/<\/li>\n<li>Pan African Space Station: http:\/\/panafricanspacestation.org.za<\/li>\n<li>South African Film: http:\/\/www.safilm.org.za<\/li>\n<li>Stevenson Gallery: http:\/\/www.stevenson.info\/index.html<\/li>\n<li>Women\u2019s Consortium of Nigeria: http:\/\/www.womenconsortiumofnigeria.org<\/li>\n<li>Zanzibar International Film Festival: http:\/\/www.ziff.or.tz<\/li>\n<li>Zimvibes: www.Zimvibes.com<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/li><li class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"ert_pane1-3\"><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_312\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/capetownpic51.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-312\" class=\"wp-image-312 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/capetownpic51-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"students and professors in fron tof building with mountain in background\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/capetownpic51-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/capetownpic51-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-312\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Students and faculty gather outside the African Gender Institute<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_313\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CapeTownpic61.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-313\" class=\"wp-image-313 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CapeTownpic61-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Jane Bennet speaking in front of white board\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CapeTownpic61-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CapeTownpic61-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Professor Jane Bennet presents at the seminar<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_314\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CapeTownpic41.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-314\" class=\"wp-image-314 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CapeTownpic41-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"three professors speak around a table\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CapeTownpic41-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CapeTownpic41-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-314\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Faculty discussions<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_315\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CapTownPic1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"wp-image-315 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CapTownPic1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"three women pose in front of African Gender Institute sign\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CapTownPic1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CapTownPic1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-315\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Adair Kleinpeter-Ross, Catherine Sameh, and Shilpa Guha at the AGI<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_316\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CapeTownpic2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-316\" class=\"wp-image-316 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CapeTownpic2-e1434727282116-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"street and scenic view\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CapeTownpic2-e1434727282116-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/CapeTownpic2-e1434727282116-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-316\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Out on the town in Capetown<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><div id=\"attachment_317\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/capetownpic71.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-317\" class=\"wp-image-317 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/capetownpic71-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Three students in front of scenic view\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/capetownpic71-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/capetownpic71-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-317\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seminar students enjoy a day outside<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<p><\/li><li class=\"tab-pane \" id=\"ert_pane1-4\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Jane Bennett<\/strong> is the Director of the African Gender Institute and has disciplinary backgrounds in literature, linguistics, sociology and feminist theory, and has worked at the State University of New York, Barnard College, and since 1999, within the University of Cape Town. Her research interests are in feminist theory, sexualities, pedagogies and violence and she has published many articles and book chapters in these areas. She is also interested in research which is allied to political activism, in different areas, within and beyond university spaces within the African continent. She writes both fiction and non-fiction. She works regularly with colleagues at the University of Buenos Aires, Makerere University, the University of Ghana, the University of California (Davis) and the Human Sciences Research Council. She also works with a number of NGOs across Southern and Eastern Africa. In the African Gender Institute, she is responsible for teaching undergraduate and postgraduate courses, postgraduate supervision, research development and networking, research and publication, and the convenorship of core programmes in the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Yvette Christians\u00eb<\/strong>\u00a0is a South African-born poet, novelist, and scholar. She is the author of two books of poetry: <em>Imprendehora<\/em> (published in South Africa by Kwela Books\/Snail Press 2009) and <em>Castaway<\/em> (Duke University Press, 1999). <em>Imprendehora<\/em> was a finalist for the Via Afrika Herman Charles Bosman Prize in 2010 and <em>Castaway<\/em> was a finalist in the 2001 PEN International Poetry Prize. Her acclaimed first novel, <em>Unconfessed,<\/em> is based on the life of a slave woman in the Cape Colony and was a finalist for the 2007 Hemingway\/PEN International Prize for First Fiction. It was also shortlisted for the University of Johannesburg Prize and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2008, and nominated for the Ama Ata Aidoo Prize 2010. Her poetry has been published in the U.S., South Africa, Australia, Canada, France and Italy. She is also the recipient of The Harri Jones Memorial Prize for poetry (Australia). She teaches poetry and prose of former English colonies (with an emphasis on South Africa, the Caribbean and Australia), narratives of African Diaspora, 20th Century African American Literatures, poetics and creative writing. Her research interests include the nexus between theories of race and gender, class and postcoloniality. She has been a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Duke University&#8217;s John Hope Franklin Center and a Visiting Professor at Princeton University&#8217;s Center for Creative and Performing Arts. She has also been a National Research Council Fellow at the University of Witwatersrand and a visiting writer at the University of Cape Town. Her manuscript on Toni Morrison&#8217;s poetics and is forthcoming from Fordham University Press. She is currently writing a book on representations of Liberated Africans or Recaptives between 1807 and 1886. Christians\u00eb was born in South Africa under apartheid and immigrated with her parents to Australia at age 18.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tami Navarro<\/strong> is the Associate Director of BCRW, Managing Editor of the Center\u2019s online journal, <i>Scholar and Feminist Online<\/i>, and Director of BCRW&#8217;s Transnational Feminisms Initiative. She holds a Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology from Duke University and is currently at work on a manuscript entitled <i>Virgin Capital: Financial Services as Development in the US Virgin Islands<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Catherine Sameh<\/strong> is Assistant Professor of Gender &amp; Sexuality Studies at University of California, Irvine. Her research interests include gender and Islam, women\u2019s human rights, social movements in Iran and the Middle East, and transnational feminisms. Her current book project investigates a campaign among feminists in Iran and the diaspora to reform Muslim family law, and explores the role of transnational networks in coalescing new political cultures. Previously, Catherine was Associate Director of the Barnard Center for Research on Women, and managing editor of <i>The Scholar &amp; Feminist Online<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-92","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":378,"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92\/revisions\/378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bcrw.barnard.edu\/transnational\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}