Name Jane Bennett | ||
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In 2004, Jane Bennett co-edited Jacketed Women: Qualitative Research Methodologies on Sexualities and Gender in Africa with Charmaine Pereira. Bennett has a BA from the University of Natal, MPhil and EdD from Columbia University. She has an academic background in linguistics, literature, sociology, and feminist theory.
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- Material visual worlds presents prof jane bennett
- Jane bennett at c21 nonhuman turn conference
- Selected publications
- References
Since 2009 she has been at the University of Cape Town, South Africa, where she is an Associate Professor as well as the Director of the School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics. She is also Director of the African Gender Institute at University of Cape Town. The School of African and Gender Studies, Anthropology and Linguistics, created in 2012, merged four previously distinct departments: the African Gender Unit, the Centre for African Studies, the department of Social Anthropology, and department of Linguistics.
Bennett’s work reflects the complexities of a researcher separating her personal experiences from her research. Her work demonstrates the interrelationship between feminist research and activism, particularly in Africa. Bennett is a program convener for the African Gender Institute’s “Sexual and Reproductive Rights Programme.” She is also on the editorial team of Feminist Africa Journal.
Jane bennett at c21 nonhuman turn conference
Selected publications
Associated Scholar: Charmaine Pereira
In 2004, Charmaine Pereira co-edited Jacketed Women: Qualitative Research Methodologies on Sexualities and Gender in Africa with Jane Bennett. Pereira has a PhD in Psychology of Education from The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. Pereira teaches in the Sociology department at Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria. Pereira’s work explores the challenges that a researcher encounters when interrogating the intersectionality of culture, gender, sexuality, law, and religion.
She is a feminist scholar-activist whose work centers on feminist thought, sexuality, gender education, and civil society and the state. She is based in Abuja, Nigeria and she is coordinator for the Initiative for Women’s Studies in Nigeria. She is a member of Tapestry Consulting, an organization that seeks to create gender equality in the workplace in Africa.
Selected Publications:
Pereira, Charmaine. Gender in the Making of the Nigerian University System. James Currey, 2007.
Pereira, Charmaine, editor. Changing Narratives of Sexuality: Contestations, Compliance and Women’s Empowerment. London, New York: Zed Books, 2014.
Bennett, Jane, and Charmaine Pereira, editors. Jacketed Women: Qualitative Research Methodologies on Sexualities and Gender in Africa. Tokyo, New York, Paris: United Nations University Press, 2013.
Pereira, Charmaine. “Domesticating Women? Gender, Religion and the State in Nigeria Under Colonial and Military Rule.” African Identities 3.1 (2005): 69-94.
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