Africa: Focus On Gender - the Opaque Language of Gender Studies

28 July 2014

Top development journals are largely managed and written by academics from the global North, a recent study claims. When it comes to scholarly texts on gender and development, this is certainly true.

Prominent feminist academics who write about gender inequality are mostly based in Northern institutions. Even if they are from the global South they adopt the opaque 'northern' language used in gender and development studies.

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