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Barbara Boswell
Dr Barbara Boswell is an associate professor of English at the University of Cape Town, and author of Grace: A Novel, published in 2017.
EFF on a collision course with dissident black women
The party’s response to journalists and those who speak against them reveal a consistent pattern of misogyny
Saved by literature and love
“The library was a refuge I could run to when violence ripped at the very fabric of our existence and threatened to extinguish life itself,” writes Dr Barbara Boswell.
Rest in power, Miriam Tlali: Author, enemy of apartheid and feminist
Tlali was the first black South African woman to publish a novel in English within the country’s borders.
Fear of the feminine recurs
Anti-gay and women’s ‘decency’ laws are sides of the same coin and reflect men’s patriarchy.