Surfacing

Desiree Lewis (Editor) Desiree Lewis is Professor in the Department of Women and Gender Studies at the University of the Western Cape. She is the author of Living on a Horizon: Bessie Head and the Politics of Imagining (2007). Gabeba Baderoon (Editor) Gabeba Baderoon is a literary scholar, poet and Associate Professor of Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, and African Studies at Pennsylvania State University, where she also co-directs the African Feminist Initiative. She is the author of Regarding Muslims: from Slavery to Post-apartheid (2014) and four books of poetry, most recently The History of Intimacy (2018).

• Introduction: Being Black and Feminist - Desiree Lewis and Gabeba BaderoonChapter 1 Winnie Mandela and the Archive: Reflections on Feminist Biography - Sisonke MsimangChapter 2 Representing Sara Baartman in the New Millennium - Zoë Wicomb and Desiree LewisPart I UnmakingChapter 3 a playful but also very serious love letter to gabrielle goliath - Pumla Dineo GqolaChapter 4 Teaching Black, Teaching Gender, Teaching Feminism - Mary HamesChapter 5 Querying the Queer - gertrude fester-wicombChapter 6 South African Feminists in Search of the Sacred - Fatima SeedatChapter 7 'Who Do You Think You Are to Speak to Me Like That?' - jackï jobChapter 8 Refining Islamic Feminisms: Gender, Subjectivity and the Divine Feminine - Sa'diyya ShaikhChapter 9 Black Lesbian Feminist Thoughts of a Born Queer - Zethu MatebeniChapter 10 Conversations about Photography with Keorapetse Mosimane, Thania Petersen and Tshepiso Mazibuko - Ingrid MasondoPart II PositioningChapter 11 What We Make to Unmake: The Imagination in Feminist Struggles - Yewande OmotosoChapter 12 Breathing Under Water - Danai S. MupotsaChapter 13 'Do I Make You Uncomfortable?' Writing, Editing and Publishing Black in a White Industry - Zukiswa WannerChapter 14 Echoes of Miriam Tlali - Barbara BoswellChapter 15 My Two Husbands - Grace A. MusilaChapter 16 Hearing the Silence - Panashe ChigumadziPart III RemakingChapter 17 Thinking through Transnational Feminist Solidarities - Leigh-Ann NaidooChapter 18 The Music of My Orgasm - Makhosazana XabaChapter 19 Bringing Water to Krotoa's Gardens: Decolonisation as Direct Action - Yvette AbrahamsChapter 20 Living a Radical African Feminist Life: A Journey to Sufficiency Through Contemporarity  - Patricia McFaddenNotesContributorsAcknowledgementsPermission creditsIndex