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Issue #82
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Issue #82 - Women and the Legal System
Injustice against women is probably no more clearly demonstrated than in the laws of a country and in
their interpretation and implementation by the justice system. We do not have to think back very far
to recall how we fought a long struggle to replace the sexist and racist laws of apartheid with a new
Constitution which has at its heart a Bill of Rights in which the Equality Clause upholds gender equality as
a promise of equity for South Africa’s women and men of all races and classes. This issue of Agenda, No
82, as a theme, sought to elicit research and writings from those who work at the interface between the
law itself, and its impact and consequences upon women, to contribute to the critical work of ensuring
gender justice in the day to day lives of South Africa’s women. We are grateful to the guest editor of the
issue, Lillian Artz, of the Gender, Health and Justice Unit, University of Cape Town, who has spent many
years researching gender and the law, particularly violence against women and the failure of the law, the
courts and the police system to protect survivors of gender violence.
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Issue #81
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Issue #81 - Gender & Poverty Reduction
This timeous issue is a welcome collaboration between the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC)
and Agenda. The guest editors, Vasu Reddy and Lebo Moletsane, have contributed their gender
knowledge and feminist understanding to an issue which draws together a collection of work by
a range of writers on Gender and Poverty Reduction. In discussion of the theme we looked at the 1997
Issue No 33 of Agenda, aptly titled ‘The Poverty Issue’. It offered a useful benchmark against which to look
back and recognise how many of the debates remain grounded on the same terrain, for example in gender
critiques of government macro-economic policy. At the time, the child maintenance grant to alleviate poverty,
targeting caregivers, was being introduced. There is no question that there have been many developments
and changes in relation to poverty and gender. While this issue does not map the changes, it takes the debate
and concerns forward, with the benefit of some hindsight, as seriously, in 2009.
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Issue #80
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Issue #80 'Gender Violence in Education'
Choose a form of violence and examine … statistics on the gender
of its perpetrators. You will always find a severely unbalanced sex
ratio, generally with 90% to 100% of the violence being perpetrated
by men…”– Bowker, 1998: xiv
Between April 2004 and March 2005, 55 114 rapes and attempted
rapes of South African women were reported to the police (Jewkes et
al., 2006). At least one in three South African women will be raped in her lifetime, and one in four will
be beaten by her domestic partner (Jewkes et al., 2002). The rapes of about 20 000 girls between the
ages of 0-17 are reported to the police each year, with adult males most often the perpetrators (Jewkes
et al., 2005).
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Issue #79
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Issue #79 'Girlhood'
The theme covered in this issue of Agenda was a result of the
realisation of the shortage of studies dealing with issues that
affect girls in Southern Africa. While studies focusing on girls
and girlhood within the broader range of work within feminism
and social change have increased tremendously in the last two decades,
many of the existing works are produced in the United States, England,
Australia and Canada (e.g. Walkerdine, 1990; Driscoll, 2002; McRobbie,
1991; 1997; Mitchell and Reid-Walsh, 2005, and many others). These
include conferences focusing exclusively on girlhood, such as Girlhood: A
New Feminist Order? (Monash, Institute of Education, 2001), Transforming
Girlhood: Girls, Agency and Power (McGill-Concordia, 2003), and The
New Girlhood Studies (University of Florida, 2005). There is now a strong
Girlhood Studies area of research and even a journal, Girlhood Studies:
An Interdisciplinary Journal and a two-volume encyclopaedia on girl
culture (Mitchell and Reid-Walsh, 2008).
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