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Publication details [#55299]

Heugh, K. 2011. Discourses from without, discourses from within: women, feminism and voice in Africa. Current Issues in Language Planning 12 (1) : 89–104.
Publication type
Article in journal
Publication language
English
Place, Publisher
Routledge

Annotation

In this study, counter-hegemonic voice, agency and assertion of linguistic and other citizenship forms show that the discourses from without miss the temporal and spatial subtlety necessary to size the business of women in Africa. Often unconsciously, they instead instigate to re-marginalise women.