Decolonial Feminisms, Decolonising Feminisms Transnational Perspectives

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Part I: Decolonising feminisms

1. Feminisms, decolonial dialogues, and transnational perspectives

Deevia Bhana, Tamara Shefer, and Giti Chandra

2. Delinking blackness: black feminist and decolonial theories in dialogue

Jéssica Nogueira Varela

3. Decolonising the university: towards a feminist ethics of care approach

Bethany Gum

4. Between languages in francophone literature: decoloniality and feminism in Assia Djebar’s and Hélène Cixous’s writings

Irma Erlingsdóttir

5. Decolonising studies on men, boys, and masculinities, ‘North’ and ‘South’: a dialogue between Kopano Ratele and Jeff Hearn

Jeff Hearn and Kopano Ratele

6. Against colonisation through the ‘right’ narrative of gender: decolonial perspectives on anti-genderism and the radical feminist response in contemporary Hungary

Erzsébet Barát

7. On the project of respatialising the South African present: black women, apartheid memory, and a different sense of place

Azille Coetzee

Part II: Decolonial feminist pedagogical and research engagements

8. Decolonial feminism in psychology: the hub for decolonial feminist psychologies in Africa – emerging praxis from the South

Floretta Boonzaier, Shose Kessi, and Haile Matutu

9. Decolonial feminisms as a practice of co-teaching: towards shared and dialogical emancipatory utopias

Anika Thym and Edna Harriet Mtoi

10. Researching and refusing reproduction: feminist decolonial possibilities

Deevia Bhana and Nolwazi Mkhwanazi

11. Re-imagining gender and sexual justice: a decolonial feminist praxis

Tamara Shefer and Carmine Rustin

12. Acknowledgement through art: experiments in a decolonial feminist practice

Fiona Jenkins

13. Why do white women get raped in Raj Nostalgia literature? Violence, gender, and the decolonisation of trauma

Giti Chandra

Index

Biography

Deevia Bhana holds the South African Research Chair in Gender and Childhood Sexuality at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. Her interests lie in the area of gender and childhood sexualities, young masculinities, and sexual health education. Her latest authored book is Girls and the Negotiation of Porn in South Africa: Power, Play, and Sexuality (2023) and her most recent edited book is Gender and Young People’s Digital Sexual Cultures (2025).

Tamara Shefer is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town. Her scholarship has been directed at intersectional gender and sexual justice, particularly with young people, and re-conceptualising academic knowledge, with an emphasis on post-qualitative, feminist, decolonial pedagogies and research. Her most recent authored book is A Feminist Critique of Sexuality Education for Gender Justice in South African Contexts (with S. Ngabaza, 2023), and her most recent edited book is Routledge Handbook of Global Feminisms and Gender Studies: Convergences, Divergences and Pluralities (with Torres, Pinto, and Hearn, 2025).

Giti Chandra is currently Research Specialist with the Gender Equality Studies and Training Programme (under the auspices of UNESCO) in Reykjavik. She is the author of Narrating Violence, Constructing Collective Identities: To Witness These Wrongs Unspeakable (2009) and co-editor of The Routledge Handbook on the Politics of the #MeToo Movement (2021).