Agenda will be holding a Feminist Dialogue on 25th November 2011, at Diakonia Centre, Durban, with the objective to bring women’ and women’s organisations together to discuss the problems that women of Durban share as a result of gender violence and to focus on the project of building gender equality in the city.
As we celebrate 16 Days of No Violence Against Women in 2011, the Durban-based feminist journal will highlight the importance of the city as a shared built environment where women and men co-exist, work and live, and ask questions on how we can make the cities safer places where women are not vulnerable to assault or rape. The manager of eThekwini Safer Cities Unit has been invited and will brief the meeting on what the Unit does to prevent violence against women in its crime prevention and monitoring programme and stimulate discussion on how women’s lives can be made safer by the city as the local authority. The informal economy development project, Asiye Etafuleni, has been invited to discuss how women informal traders have worked towards making a women-friendly environment in the Warwick Markets and to create livelihood opportunities, emphasising not so much security, but collective needs of the urban poor in a hostile environment, on the fringes of the formal economy. The Dialogue will seek some answers to the question – how can African cities respond to the challenge of responding to the critical need to end violence against women, how can urban environments be turned into spaces that are woman-friendly.
Agenda feminist journal, started in 1986 and now in its 25th year, is launching two issues which speak to firstly, the contexts of contemporary feminist struggles against gender oppression and gender inequality, and secondly, the complexities and conditions of women’s marginalisation in the rural context.
The two issues include research and scholarly articles by over 20 writers that speak to the critical understanding of gender inequality in the post-apartheid democratic project of South Africa. Agenda journal, a Durban-based publishing initiative by gender activists and feminist scholars, recognises the role of knowledge production and women’s critical capacity to research, speak, debate, question, and write about their problems and to challenge women’s oppression and gender inequalities.
NOTICE:
Our sincere apology – the Agenda journal launch planned for 13th October 2011 – has been postponed.  Ikes Bookshop (venue for the launch) had to be closed as their staffs have taken ill.
Agenda Feminist Media invites you to the launch of their two journals:
Feminisms Today
&
Gender & Rurality
Agenda Feminist Media, in partnership with the Institute for Women’s and Gender Studies and Education Management and Policy studies take pleasure in inviting you to the launch of:
Agenda Issue 85: FIFA World Cup: Gender, Politics and Sport
The 2010 FIFA World Cup hosted for the first time in Africa on South African soil is generally regarded as having been a successful global sporting event. This issue of Agenda looks at the event retrospectively and presents a range of contributions by writers who offer gender analysis and critique of the sports mega-event.
The FIFA World Cup was afterall a 100% masculine international and corporate competition. The issue includes a range of contributions who offer different perspectives of the construction of the event, highlighting how indeed the FIFA World Cup can be understood as being gendered. Writers take up strongly the masculinist positioning of the FIFA Games as a feminist issue where women were either seen as peripheral, as cheerleaders or as providers of sexual services for soccer players and tourists.
