AA 2002 Supplementum

 

Recent Submissions

  • Medieval images of womanhood: the construction of Mary of Nemmegen 

    Raftery, Margaret Mary (University of the Free State, 2002)
    English: The late-medieval English prose text Mary of Nemmegen (c 1518) relates the tale of a girl who spends seven years with the devil but is ultimately miraculously saved. In the context of Chaucer’s Wife of Bath’s ...

  • The sexual politics of the head: the legal history of the veil 

    Nel, Philip (University of the Free State, 2002)
    English: To trace the origins of legal provisions pertaining to the veiling of women, Mesopotamian legal documents of the early second and first millennia BCE are scrutinized in order to determine their first entries ...

  • Fighting from within: gender equity at the University of the Free State 

    Pretorius, Engela; De Villiers Human, Suzanne; Niemann, Rita; Klinck, Elsabe; Alt, Heinrich (University of the Free State, 2002)
    English: This study sets out to assess the extent to which gender equity has been mainstreamed at the University of the Free State (UFS). The external environment is briefly discussed in terms of the policy framework ...

  • Redress and empowerment for gender equity in South African education 

    Niemann, Rita (University of the Free State, 2002)
    English: This study subjects gender equity in the South African education sector to scrutiny by focusing on gender domination, empowerment and redress in order to offer guidelines for effective movement towards gender ...

  • Fractious holism: the complex relationship between women and war 

    Hudson, Heidi (University of the Free State, 2002)
    English: Feminists have agreed to disagree on the interaction between women and war. This is elucidated by means of a critical assessment of the various positions of feminists regarding comprehensive human security in ...

  • Sexual harassment in South African and American law 

    Snyman-Van Deventer, Elisabeth; De Bruin, Jaco (University of the Free State, 2002)
    English: Sexual harassment in the workplace is a grave problem and a significant obstacle to access to many sectors of the labour market. The number of sexual harassment complaints increases dramatically every year, ...

  • Gender issues in housing delivery in the Free State since 1994 

    Marais, Lochner (University of the Free State, 2002)
    English: Although policies have become far more gender-sensitive there is still no guarantee that females and males have ‘comparatively speaking’ the same access to housing opportunities. In South Africa (specifically ...

  • Reception, deception, illusion and magic: feminism and theoretical practice 

    De Villiers Human, Suzanne; Visagie, Johann (University of the Free State, 2002)
    English: This article is an exploration of the relationship between ideology theory, feminism and “theoretical practice”. It is an attempt to formulate a “figurative semiotics” in which theory is “seen” to be done. There ...