Ubuntu feminism: Tentative reflections

The starting-point for the article is to provide a brief background on the Ubuntu Project that Prof. Drucilla Cornell convened in 2003; most notably the interviews conducted in Khayamandi, the support of a sewing collective, and the continued search to launch an Ubuntu Women's Centre. The artic...

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Subtitles:Ubuntu, sub-edited by Julian C. Müller and Wilhelm van Deventer
Authors: Cornell, Drucilla 1950- (Author) ; Van Marle, Karin (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Univ. [2015]
In: Verbum et ecclesia
Year: 2015, Volume: 36, Issue: 2, Pages: 1-8
IxTheo Classification:KBN Sub-Saharan Africa
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