The Agenda journal facilitates dialogue and debates between academic gender researchers, activists within the women’s movement and other segments of civil society. The journal is recognised as part of African women’s long-term struggle against unequal power relations. It was first published in 1987 and is now in its 21st year of publication. To date, Agenda Feminist Media has published 70 themed, quarterly journals.
The journal is accredited by both the International Bibliography for the Social Sciences (IBSS) and South African Post Secondary Education (SAPSE). It is our aim to create a more gender-sensitive environment in which women’s rights are respected and exercised and gender equality can become a reality.
The journal offers an important space for women and men to generate discussion, new thinking, research and debate on women’s rights issues in Africa and beyond. As a women’s rights and feminist journal, we value and provide space for the publication of work which embraces the development of different kinds of knowledge – knowledge produced by researchers, academics, activists as well as from the lived experiences of ordinary women.
As a result, the journal offers potential of becoming a long-term gender resource base and development tool to academic institutions and NGOs working with women’s rights and gender.
Agenda’s contributors and target audience both include mainly female but also male policy makers, academics, professionals, educators, activists, community workers, students and members of women’s organisations and organisations concerned with gender issues.
Agenda’s Editorial Advisory Group (EAG) is made up of women academics and activists from the African continent with high intellectual standing in the fields of gender and women’s rights in their countries as well as internationally. EAG members support the Editor in conceptualising journal themes, suggesting contributors as well as selecting and reviewing contributions. In addition, all contributions to the journal go through a double-blind, external peer review process consistent with IBSS and SAPSE guidelines.
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