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Environmental conflicts and women's vulnerability in Africa.
(African Journal of Conflict Resolution, 2010)
This article examines environmental conflicts and women’s vulnerability in
Africa. Environmental resources are critical to poor women’s productive and
reproductive lives in Africa. Environmental resources diversify ...
Disruptive or merely alternative? A case study of a South African gay church.
(Journal of Gender and Religion in Africa., 2011)
The main aim of this article is to engage with how a South African church through its discursive practices, continues to live out the conviction set out in Germond and de Gruchy's 1997 book "Aliens in the Household of ...
'Sometimes taxi men are rough..' : young women's experiences of the risks of being a 'taxi queen'.
(African Safety Promotion Journal, 2011)
The 'taxi queen' phenomenon in which young women become involved with older male taxi drivers while taking public transport has received little attention as an area of research. However, there are concerns that the ...
Liberated through submission? The Worthy Woman's Conference as a case study of Formenism.
(Indiana University Press, 2010)
In this article, Nadar and Potgieter use the Worthy Women’s Conference as a case study, describing and analyzing how this movement creates and maintains what they call the formenist position. Formenism, like masculinism, ...
"Don't touch me on my psychology and religion!" : feminist backlash in a wearable cloak and different voice.
(Agenda., 2010)
In this article it is argued that feminist successes in South Africa are being ‘overshadowed’ by movements which are essentially anti-feminist and brazenly patriarchal, but which go unchallenged because these movements are ...
Crime and tourism in South Africa.
(Kamla-Raj Enterprises., 2013)
The trepidation over tourism and crime has emerged as a global issue, gaining prominence in the media and political debates. South Africa is often viewed as the crime capital of the world and while crime rates in specific ...
A descriptive study of the modus operandi of serial rapists in South Africa.
(Acta Criminologica, 2010)
This article reflects research of which the aim is to increase our collective knowledge of the modus operandi of serial rapists in South Africa in an attempt to contribute to the prevention and prosecution of perpetrators. ...
An explorative study of serial rape and victimisation risk in South Africa.
(Acta Criminologica., 2010)
Serial rape attracts much media attention and has become a topic of increased interest and concern. However, both locally and internationally, there is a paucity of empirically based research. The limited research which ...