complex, more than Shakespeare because we know more about the lives of women—Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf included. Both the victimization and the anger experienced by women are real, and have real sources, everywhere in the environment, built into society, language, the structures of thought. They will go on being tapped and explored by poets, among others. We can neither deny them, nor will...

In South Africa, both HIV and gender-based violence are highly prevalent. Gender inequalities give men considerable relational power over young women, particularly in circumstances of poverty and where sex is materially rewarded. Young women are often described as victims of men, but this inadequately explains women's observed sexual agency. This paper takes a different approach. We use qualita...

The existing gender analysis frameworks start with a premise that men and women are equal and should be treated equally. These frameworks give emphasis on equal distribution of resources between men and women and believe that this will bring equality which is not always true. Despite equal distribution of resources, women tend to suffer and experience discrimination in many areas of their lives...

Patriarchy or the social construct that reckons men as 'absolute authority' has remained an amplified substratum of our societies for time immemorial. This noxious tendency been glorified and siphoned into normality, relinquishing power women in long run. Circe is a novel by Madeline Miller tells story Greek mythological character named Circe, Witch Aiaia. was born family God Helio but deemed u...

While Rosemary Radford Ruether is widely, and rightly, acknowledged as a prophetic Catholic scholar–activist, her interest in experience of mysticism rarely emphasized. However, had an impactful mystical young woman, the themes this echo throughout body work. This paper paints portrait both profoundly scholar–activist spiritually attuned seeker very divinity that she encountered twenties. In pr...