by AgendaFM | Nov 12, 2013 | Journals
Childhood sex is a subject that is frequently neglected or taboo. The social, moral and cultural attitudes and constructions attached to the subject have tended to either deny its existence or forbid it. The problematic situating of gender and childhood sexuality...
by AgendaFM | Aug 12, 2013 | Journals
Love has often been placed among the lesser order of priorities against the more important issues that hold our attention in seeking to transform gender relations in Africa. In discussing the concept note for the issue we were reminded of feminists’ belief that love...
by AgendaFM | Jul 9, 2013 | Journals
Everyone knows that South Africa is the country where there is more reported violence against women than in any other country of the world. The struggle to keep counting and to track this violence alone by socially concerned gender activists has been a disturbing...
by AgendaFM | Apr 29, 2013 | Journals
This issue of Agenda focusing on gender, ageing and intergenerationality, addresses a gap that has existed in social policy and research. Its intention is to investigate and reveal the human and gendered dimensions of ageing and not see age solely as a research...
by AgendaFM | Nov 27, 2012 | Journals
Pinning down the understandings of current feminist debates on pornography may be long overdue for South African feminists and feminism/s, the subject having not attracted much attention since the 1990s. In South Africa post-1994, feminists paused for a moment to...
by AgendaFM | Aug 21, 2012 | Journals
This issue of Agenda goes to print at a time when a National Health Insurance Policy has been proposed by the state amid the failure of health service delivery to meet demands placed on it. Our country’s women carry a very high burden of disease testified by the...
