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A feminist post-structuralist critique of the transformative potential of Malawi’s gender equality law to promote adolescent sexual health
Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/73213 A feminist post-structuralist critique of the transformative potential of Malawi’s gender equality law to promote adolescent sexual health Skelton, Ann, 1961- kangaude2013@lawnet.ucla.edu Kangaude, Godfrey Dalitso Sexual health and rights of adolescents in Africa UCTD Thesis (LLD)--University of Pretoria, 2020. Malawi enacted the Gender Equality Act (GEA) in 2013 to address gender inequality and promote sexual health and rights. The question the thesis addresses is whether the GEA itself an artefact of the very culture it would want to transform, could contribute to the transformation of social norms to improve the sexual health trajectories of adolescents. The thesis employs a hybrid approach to addressing the question, using a legal doctrinal methodology in combination with a feminist poststructural methodology of discourse analysis. The important assumption the thesis makes is that the GEA is part of a broader framework of discourse. The GEA as discourse draws upon prevailing discourses that shape people’s experience of sexuality. This is a challenge because the GEA’s conceptualisation of gender inequality and its implementation is influenced by the prevailing dominant gender discourses. The thesis explains what it means for the GEA to influence social change. It explores the possibilities of it creating a radical world in which society recognises adolescents as social actors and agents who play a role in constituting their gendered and sexual worlds. Enabling the GEA to be transformational requires policy actors to interpret and implement the GEA to open new possibilities for adolescents. Only then can the GEA transcend its existential predicament of itself being an artefact of cultural discourse. Private Law LLD Unrestricted 2020-02-11T13:43:35Z 2020-02-11T13:43:35Z 2020-04-09 2020 Thesis Kangaude, G 2020, A feminist post-structuralist critique of the transformative potential of Malawi’s gender equality law to promote adolescent sexual health, LLD Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73213> UCTD A2020 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73213 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | Sexual health and rights of adolescents in Africa UCTD A feminist post-structuralist critique of the transformative potential of Malawi’s gender equality law to promote adolescent sexual health |
| title | A feminist post-structuralist critique of the transformative potential of Malawi’s gender equality law to promote adolescent sexual health |
| title_full | A feminist post-structuralist critique of the transformative potential of Malawi’s gender equality law to promote adolescent sexual health |
| title_fullStr | A feminist post-structuralist critique of the transformative potential of Malawi’s gender equality law to promote adolescent sexual health |
| title_full_unstemmed | A feminist post-structuralist critique of the transformative potential of Malawi’s gender equality law to promote adolescent sexual health |
| title_short | A feminist post-structuralist critique of the transformative potential of Malawi’s gender equality law to promote adolescent sexual health |
| title_sort | feminist post structuralist critique of the transformative potential of malawi s gender equality law to promote adolescent sexual health |
| topic | Sexual health and rights of adolescents in Africa UCTD |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/73213 |