ABSTRACT
In the anthologies Hear Our Voices and African Gender Studies: A Reader, the authors address the epistemological and pedagogical impediments blighting scholarship about the African continent and creating institutional friction for African female academics. While the African Gender Studies authors specifically deconstruct the Eurocentric hegemony within theories of race, culture, gender, and identity, the authors in Hear Our Voices reveal how those theories are institutionalized as dominant ideologies discursively affecting female scholars at South African universities. Magubane's criticism of the problematic of visual sense bio-logic confronts how the 'alienating culture' of the contemporary South African university can be comprehended as a direct consequence of the social forces that shaped it historically. Hear Our Voices and African Gender Studies dynamically reveal how African female scholars' work and communities are compromised in the universities' policies and patriarchal cultures, which, ultimately threaten post-apartheid laws.
