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Anti-Gender in Africa: Is it really a social phenomenon wihtout a concept? Interview with Patrick Awondo, Rose Ndebgue and Fatou Sow
Researchers and activists from different disciplines and generations, Rose Ndengue, Fatou Sow and Patrick Awondo discuss the heuristic (or non-heuristic) dimension of the concept of anti-gender in their geographical area of expertise - mainly French-speaking Africa. The authors reveal a paradox. While Africa does not laying on the margins of the global dynamics of the identity-related tensions and the conservative movements against women, feminism, "gender theory", and homosexuality, African activists and academics seldom use the concept of anti-gender is a social phenomenon that is both public and pervasive and hidden and diffuse, and its conceptualisation involves brooder reflection on the production of activist, expert and academic knowledge from Africa and on the need to thik about relevant methods for investigating these realities.
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