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Gender and human rights: Biology and bodies

EDITORIAL

Editorial
Gender and human rights: Biology and bodies
Lou Haysom (Managing Editor of Agenda)
Pages: 1-2
Published online: 23 Dec 2013
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MAPPING THE ISSUES

Introduction
Biology, bodies and human rights
Elaine Salo & Benita Moolman
Pages: 3-9
Published online: 23 Dec 2013
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ARTICLE

Article
Rethinking gender and human rights through transgender and intersex experiences in South Africa
Nadzeya Husakouskaya
Pages: 10-24
Published online: 02 Dec 2013
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BRIEFING

Challenging medical knowledge at the source – attempting critical teaching in the health sciences
Alexandra Müller & Sarah Crawford-Browne
Pages: 25-34
Published online: 11 Nov 2013
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ARTICLE

Article
Informed consent for sterilisation of women and girls with disabilities in the light of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities
Willene Holness
Pages: 35-54
Published online: 12 Nov 2013
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“I am happy with one”: Re-evaluating the relationship between gender, breast-cancer surgery, and survival
Renée van der Wiel
Pages: 55-64
Published online: 01 Nov 2013
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INTERVIEW

Sylvia Tamale talks to Elaine Salo
Salo Elaine
Pages: 65-68
Published online: 09 Dec 2013
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BRIEFING

Ensuring women's right to choose: Exploring nurses' role in the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act
Makhosazana Xaba & Laetitia Rispel
Pages: 69-78
Published online: 10 Dec 2013
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ARTICLE

Article
Corporeal bodies, religious lives, and ‘women's rights’: Engaging Islamic body politics among Muslim women in South Africa
Nina Hoel
Pages: 79-90
Published online: 30 Oct 2013
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PROFILE

Article
Women for cows: An analysis of abductions of women in South Sudan
Lizzie Lacey
Pages: 91-108
Published online: 22 Nov 2013
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POEM

Trinket
Jo Davis
Page: 109
Published online: 12 Nov 2013
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PERSPECTIVE

Article
The thin/thick body ideal: Zulu women's body as a site of cultural and postcolonial feminist struggle
Winifred N Ogana & Vivian B Ojong
Pages: 110-119
Published online: 16 Dec 2013
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VISUAL ESSAY

Body of Work
Sarita Ranchod
Pages: 120-125
Published online: 21 Nov 2013
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CRITICAL ISSUES

Article
Excavating the archive: centring women's experiences and voices in the South African Transformation Discourse
Susan Nkomo
Pages: 126-135
Published online: 12 Dec 2013
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BOOK REVIEW

Book Review
The subject, real bodies and the performative in the political: A review of Dispossession: The Performative in the Political by Judith Butler and Athena Athanasiou
Danai S Mupotsa
Pages: 136-140
Published online: 12 Dec 2013
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Book Review
Representation and Black Womanhood: The Legacy of Sarah Baartman edited by Natasha Gordon-Chipembere
Jude Clark
Pages: 141-144
Published online: 21 Nov 2013
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AGENDA REPORT

Agenda Feminist Dialogue
Women and Land
Anathi Teyise
Pages: 145-150
Published online: 06 Nov 2013
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