Thirty years of<i>Male Daughters, Female Husbands</i>: revisiting Ifi Amadiume’s questions on gender, sex and political economy

Magadla, Siphokazi; Magoqwana, Babalwa; Motsemme, Nthabiseng

doi:10.1080/02589001.2021.1926442

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“…However, for clinicians, an intersex diagnosis can refer also to attributes that are not apparent on the body's surface, including xxy sex chromosome or indifference to the hormones that produce effects connotative of masculinity" (2014, 111). Amadiume's influence is im mense and recently inspired a thirty-year retrospective in the Journal of Con temporary African Studies (Magadla, Magoqwana, and Motsemme 2021). In this special issue, Zethu Matebeni (2021) smartly articulates Notes the dominance of colonial understandings of gender and their implications for present-day considerations.…”

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Envisioning African Intersex

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In 2009, South African Caster Semenya won the 800-meter event at the World Championships in Athletics in track and field. But instead of celebrating her victory, Semenya faced accusations that her body was "too masculine" for her to compete in women's sport. Sporting authorities, doctors, and the media claimed that Semenya was intersex. Over the following de cade, she was subjected to international scrutiny: her body was photographed, she endured explorations of her reproductive organs, and her chromosomes and hormones were evaluated to determine her eligibility to compete in women's sport. Decisions about the "truth" of her gender changed again and again over the following de cade, as supposed experts fought over the par ameters of womanhood and the course of her life. Now with two Olympic gold medals to her name, Semenya continues to contest regulations that currently bar her from her sport. The latest decisions of the International Olympic Organ izing Committee prohibit Semenya from competing in the 800-meter event unless she undertakes surgery or pharmaceutically alters her natu ral testosterone levels (an intervention that previously made her physically ill). Recent headlines indicate the global importance of these conversations, Introduction. Pathologizing Gender Binaries Intersex Images and Citational Chains

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“…Women-based NGOs in the SADC region choose their identity as regional organizations and their norms according to the gender insecurities that they seek to address, and this strategy reaffirms African agency. These NGOs seek to address multiple gender insecurities through initiating, selecting, and developing norms and policies on gender-based violence, gender and the media, women, law and development, gender and climate change, gender and healthcare, gender and HIV and AIDS, sexual reproductive health rights, women and economic justice, women and human rights and LGBTQ+ issues (Morna,Makamure,2 Several significant works in African women's scholarship challenge binary and body logics, such as Oyèwùmí (1997), Nzegwu (1998), and Magadla, Magoqwana, and Motsemme (2021). Magadla (2013) contends that the discourse of International Relations (IR) should prioritise the voices of African women, communities, and indigenous societal actors.…”

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A Socio-Historical Approach to Regional Organizational Relations?

Nedziwe

2024

IAPSS Politikon

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The extant academic literature in the field of regional International Relations has paid little attention to non-state actors’ organizational relations in building region-ness. Yet, the region offers sets of organizational relations outside, alongside, and as part of the formal regional state structures to do with gender, which offer insights into non-state regional relations and thus help to fill the lacunae in the field and facilitate understanding of the regional dynamic of international relations. This article examines how organizational relations of non-state actors in gender security play out in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region. It highlights the shortcomings of the inter-governmental approach to international relations pursued by various scholars. Drawing on interviews with representatives of NGOs, governments, the SADC, and annual reports, as well as the academic literature, it argues for a socio-historical approach to understanding regional organization and transnationalism, which considers African agency in building region-ness.

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Introduction: Drinking Cultures in Nigeria, Gender, Transgression, and Study Methodology

Dumbili

2024

Genders and Sexualities in the Social Sciences

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Thirty years ofMale Daughters, Female Husbands: revisiting Ifi Amadiume’s questions on gender, sex and political economy

Cited by 23 publications

References 14 publications

Envisioning African Intersex

Envisioning African Intersex

A Socio-Historical Approach to Regional Organizational Relations?

Introduction: Drinking Cultures in Nigeria, Gender, Transgression, and Study Methodology

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