'Women are the most vulnerable'

Writing`herstoryWriting`herstory' has never been an easy process in a male-dominated world where sexism, bigotry racism, casteism and fascism all have been used in an unimaginative way by the free market economy in congruence with the fascists forces to undermine democratic processes. The trio of totalitarian state, free market and increasing fundamentalism is giving new reasons to dissent every day. The resistance at the international as well as local level has been continuing for generations. From the suffrage movement to Bread and roses strike to slut walks to Ni una menos (Spanish for not one woman less) protest by grassroot women in Argentina, women all over the world have resisted patriarchy, defied authority, demanded their basic rights and freedom and challenged male hegemony in different possible ways. The MeToo movement is one of the classic examples where world over women are raising their voices and documenting their protests. Recently, in the wake of tyrannical, autocratic, patriarchal fascists regimes or totalitarian empires which have emerged world over, past few months have witnessed the rising rage and stiff resistance from common people and specifically from women across the globe. From developed countries to the third world nations, the struggle for liberation continues to demand equality in wages, for reproductive rights, fight against sexual harassment, assaults and rapes to resistance against patriarchy and waging war against fascism in different ways while reclaiming rights. This is despite the fact that across the world, many countries recognize equality and social justice as of significance in their respective constitutions, women are relentlessly and vigorously resisting against misogyny and sexism while demanding safe spaces and life with dignity while mobilizing the sense of solidarity to achieve material effective gender equality that may utilize wellbeing approach to create a happy society. In January 2019, a large number of women protestors gathered on streets and roads to resist presidency of Donald Trump and an attempt to shake of accusation of antisemitism. The other goals are to address violence against women, racial injustice and immigrant rights. This protest is seen as a continuation of the one held in 2017 and spread across different cities. The movement hoped to turn its attention to the presidential race in 2020. The resistance against Trumpism continued to express its anger against misogynist, white supremacists, neo Nazi, anti-immigrants approach and pogrom that separated children from their parents at the borders. Also, in states across USA, Puerto Rico and Canada, thousands of people marched in May 2019 to protest against the recent wave of anti-abortion legislation as #StoptheBans demonstrations where women paving way for reproductive freedom and demanded that decisions regarding women's bodies should not be made by politicians. Activists claimed that making abortions illegal may risk the lives of women and more specifically it will negatively impact the women of color. Thousands of women in Spain marched on 8 th March 2019, the International women's day, while raising the slogan "We have 1000 reasons" and "If we stop, the world stops" to demonstrate against slow pace of change toward equality and to combat gender-based discrimination, pay gaps and violence. In Madrid, the March 8 Commission explained the reason of strike is to achieve the ultimate goal of "subverting the world order and the pervading hetero-patriarchal, racist and neoliberal rhetoric'.

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This issue is dedicated to the changing landscape of women's movements and activism in South Africa (SA) as well as other countries in Africa. Movements and mobilisation Over the last two decades the contributions and achievements as well as failures of women's movements and women's activism have been well documented in manuscripts that have specifically focused on Africa and been written from the vantage point of the Global South. Shireen Hassim's landmark study Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa-Contesting Authority (2006) chronicles and analyses the role of the women's movement in the South African liberation struggle, democratic transition, and the first engagements with institutional politics. She also highlights the role and failures of the ANC Women's League to contribute to substantive gender equality. In her book Democracy and the Rise of Women's Movements in Sub-Saharan Africa Kathleen Fallon (2008) engages the issue of women in democratisation processes in Africa and analyses Ghana as a case study.

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Review of African Political Economy, 2016

The liberation struggle in South Africa highlighted racial and class oppression as key causes of poverty, inequality, and a lack of rights for most South Africans. Drawing on the language of the struggle, women political and trade union activists brought attention to their oppression and exploitation as women, and were able to place non-sexism alongside non-racism and democracy as key liberation principles. However, while men in these organisations ostensibly accepted the idea of non-sexism, they were not ready to change their behaviour or give up their power, and women activists met with ongoing resistance. During the negotiations for democracy, women drew on their experience of the years of struggle and were able to ensure a high proportion of women in parliament, influence the country’s constitution, and advocate the establishment of State machinery to mainstream gender equality. However, in the post-apartheid era of reconstruction and development, both the demobilisation of protest movements and the emphasis on the technical aspects of development stand in the way of gender mainstreaming via the State.

Hasht e Subh Daily, 2023

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is a human rights and community activist. She was a key organizer for the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee, and one of three female organizers who headed county projects in Mississippi in 1964. She and her staff were responsible for Washington, Issaquena and Sharkey counties. She became the second state coordinator for the Council of Federated Organizations, the umbrella civil rights organization which called for the famous Mississippi Summer Project. Ms. Tillinghast resides in Brooklyn, New York, with her daughters, Bayo Callender and Aisha Hinton, her two dogs and two cats. She does social services advocacy in health and child welfare, labor issues and legal referral. She has recently joined the administration of Children in Crisis, which specializes in finding and counseling runaways and kidnap victims. ** Patricia McFadden is a member of the African National Congress who fled South Africa because of her political activities, and hopes to go home soon. She did her D.Phil at Oxford, and does work on gender in Southern African society and politics. She is presently doing research in Dakar, Senegal.

The following paper deals with the voices of women which go unheard. It talks about different women writers who try to incorporate the plight of women through their writings. The paper wants to let the audience know that the discourse is not just limited to the first world and third world conflict which almost every writer contemplates and shows his/her resistance in one aspect or the other but they are leaving us with a greater question to ponder upon. Starting from a general question of what is resistance literature and need of it, the paper dwells into deeper and talks about the bigger issue of first and third world problems and later diving into micro issues yet very important issues of heterosexuality, social issues, economic problems and how women are expected to behave in a manner and how they are confined by the pressures of family, society which results in decay of their psyche and some women who are strong enough speak against the injustices done to them. In a patriarchal society a man's world is different altogether than women, a world of opportunities whereas a woman confined in the four walls of her home, a door of prospects, power, ideas, thoughts, a men's world to be precise is shut for her. The paper however focuses on three major playwrights of different origins, Manjula Padmanabhan, Lynn Nottage and Marsha Norman for their remarkable piece of work while incorporating them and supporting their ideas and thoughts through different other writers of fiction and non-fiction respectively. Unheard Voices1

University of Cape Town Newsletter, 2020

Amplifying the voices of women struggle heroes 17 DECEMBER 2020 | STORY STORY NADIA KRIGE. PHOTO PHOTO SUPPLIED. Read time Read time 8 min. A researcher at the University of Cape Town's (UCT) College of Music and UCT Libraries Special Collections have joined A researcher at the University of Cape Town's (UCT) College of Music and UCT Libraries Special Collections have joined forces to build a rare collection of Ulmed oral testimonies, music and personal documents by former female political forces to build a rare collection of Ulmed oral testimonies, music and personal documents by former female political prisoners and prison guards. The Malibongwe Women's Archive project will communicate a hitherto unseen female prisoners and prison guards. The Malibongwe Women's Archive project will communicate a hitherto unseen female perspective on the struggle against both racial discrimination and the oppression of women during the anti-apartheid perspective on the struggle against both racial discrimination and the oppression of women during the anti-apartheid struggle (1948-1994) and has just been awarded funding from the Carl Schlettwein Foundation to launch. struggle (1948-1994) and has just been awarded funding from the Carl Schlettwein Foundation to launch. "This cultural-heritage preservation project will provide a new perspective on the standard liberation struggle narrative by embracing gender issues that have been historically overlooked," says Dr Janie Cole, a research oacer and associate lecturer at the UCT College of Music who is spearheading the project. The goal of the project is to collect interviews, original music tracks and items for a personal archive (photos, diaries, letters, etc) that will chart the active role of women against apartheid. The Malibongwe Women's Archive comes as an outbow of Cole's ongoing research exploring the critical role music played as a force of resistance, protest and survival in apartheid prisons. This has also underpinned her work as founder of the Music Beyond Borders Music Beyond Borders platform platform (http://www.musicbeyondborders.net/) (http://www.musicbeyondborders.net/) for cultural heritage preservation, and signalling the importance and power of survivor and perpetrator testimony for creating a compelling voice for raising awareness and education. As the most notorious apartheid prison, Robben Island was the obvious place to begin her research by interviewing former political prisoners. Cole's Ueldwork soon took her to other infamous prisons, including Number 4 prison at the Old Fort in Johannesburg, "This is an endangered body of knowledge that must be preserved before these struggle veterans pass away." UCT aspires to become a premier academic meeting point between South Africa, the rest of Africa and the world. UCT aspires to become a premier academic meeting point between South Africa, the rest of Africa and the world. Taking advantage of expanding global networks and our distinct vantage point in Africa, we are committed , through innovative research and scholarship, to grapple with the key issues of our natural and social worlds. We are committed both to protecting and encouraging 'curiosity-driven research' and research that has a real impact on our communities and environment. Please view the republishing articles republishing articles (/republishing-articles/) (/republishing-articles/) page for more information.