(Center for Research on Culture and Gender, Gent University, Belgium, 2016) Namatende-Sakwa, Lydia
This study is an investigation into gendered lived experiences of female teacher
educators in a leading Ugandan university. I focus on the ways in which they have
navigated the patriarchal gendered order in Uganda, in relation to the pervasive victim
narrative used to produce women in the global South and/or Third World. In this
chapter, I first reflect on how I came to focus my study on female teacher educators’
lives within notions of the victim narrative. Secondly, I engage with literature
challenging the monolithic victim narrative. Thirdly, I interrogate experience as a key
concept for this study from whence the research questions emanate. This is followed
by the context, significance, overview of research methods, and organisation of the
dissertation respectively.
