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Without ruffling feathers: Insights on non-threatening femininity
(The Uganda Feminist Forum, 2019)
In this paper, I highlight the salience of agency as embodied in performing
non-threatening femininity. I argue that the potency within this form of
resistance is in its slipperiness and/or elusiveness to power. While ...
Exploring gender equality in the health workforce: A study in Uganda and Somalia
(Tropical Health and Education Trust (THET), 2019)
A Gender Study commissioned by THET in 2017 found that gender inequity is widely recognised as an obstacle for women working in the health sector in LMICs. The study identified three key issues:
Discrimination against ...
‘Gendering’ the text through implicit citations of gendered discourses: the construction of gender and teacher talk around children’s fiction
(Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2019-04-08)
This study departs from the overriding focus on textbooks, which disregards how readers take them up. Informed by feminist post-structural theory, I analyse the construction of gender in children's fiction texts used in a ...
From the classroom to the hospital ward: Dr Lydia Namatende-Sakwa on gender mainstreaming in Uganda
(THEFT, 2019-08)
My interest in gender equity was largely shaped by my experience as a young English teacher in a co-educational secondary school in Uganda. I completed both my primary and secondary education in single-sex schools which ...