Women's moral agency and the quest for justice in Africa
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Authors
Lenkabula, Puleng
Issue Date
2010
Type
Research Article
Language
en
Keywords
Justice in Africa
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Abstract
This article explores women’s moral agency in post-apartheid
South Africa and Africa by examining the intersections of
governance and the public space; we shall also look at the
agency of African women from the perspective of African
feminist social ethics. The article begins by discussing the African
post-colonial state. It then goes on to evaluate the portrayal
of African women’s agency in the dominant discourses of the
human sciences, particularly as these are articulated in South
Africa. The purpose of this article is to unearth how African
women’s agency is perceived, interpreted and understood. We
also want to evaluate whether African women inhabit or reject
the negative way in which they are portrayed. The second part
of the essay identifies and discusses African women’s agency
and demonstrates the ways African women agitate for justice,
and claim political agency and citizenship. The essay then calls
for emancipatory and transformatory justice in the public
sphere and in the human sciences; it rejects the objectification
of African women, and protests against treating them as objects
of research. Instead, it understands African women as subjects
and agents in their own lives, including in the private and
public spheres.
Description
Peer reviewed
Citation
LenkaBula, P & Makofane, M. 2010,'Women's moral agency and the quest for justice in Africa',
Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae, vol. XXXVI, pp. 127-156.
Publisher
Church History Society of Southern Africa
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1017-0499