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The Women’s & Gender Studies (WGS) Department is an inter- and transdisciplinary department that emerged out of gender and anti-apartheid activism at UWC in the 1980s and early 1990s. The Women’s and Gender Studies Department explores questions of social and gender justice and processes of societal and institutional transformation, as well as critical scrutiny of the way that dominant knowledges a
nd practices acquire authority and public visibility. We are particularly concerned with foregrounding and thinking with alternative knowledges, and the project of reconceptualising orthodox scholarly practices within the larger goal of decolonial, feminist scholarship. Our focus on systemic and structural expressions of power is undertaken through combining interdisciplinary research employing a feminist intersectional approach as well as through our pedagogical practices which employ innovative, critical and feminist pedagogies for social justice.
07/05/2026
A new double special issue of the journal Norma: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, features the research in the article
'Men, masculinities, and the planet at the end of (M)Anthropocene’.