Gabi Mkhize
Biographic Data
| ID | 657442 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gabi Mkhize |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gabi |
| FAMILY NAME | Mkhize |
| SIGNATURE | MKHIZE G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Twitter (United States) |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0045-9228 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Genders, Sexualities, and Complexities in Africa
The book project strives to establish and interpret the experiences and realities of African migration using African epistemology and philosophy.
Sexual and Gender Identity Development among Adolescent LGBTI+ Individuals in Zimbabwe
During the identity formation stage of adolescents, the social world is described as extremely complex. The stakes are even higher for those who develop non-normative sexual and gender identities. The study sought to investigate the identity developmental experiences of LGBTI + adolescents in African communities. Through a qualitative inquiry, adopting a life histories approach as a data collection method, this study used in-depth interviews and …
Comparative analysis of black queer feminist isiXhosa and English poetry
Black queer feminist literature remains under-researched. This reflects the societal marginalisation of black queer authors in South Africa. Our article offers a comparative analysis of the representation of black queer women by black queer and cisgender authors in selected isiXhosa and English poetry. The poems selected are from Unam Wena (2021) by Mthunzikazi Mbungwana and red cotton (2018) by vangile gantsho. Firstly, we explore how queer femi…
LGBTI+ persons’ concealed displacement in Zimbabwe
In many parts of the world individuals are subjected to serious human rights abuses because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expressions, and sex characteristics, particularly when these do not conform to dominant social and cultural norms. Severe persecution and discrimination from both state and non-state actors force LGBTI+ persons to leave their places of habitual residence in search of a safe environment in which they can…
Gendered and feminist inequalities: A review and framing notes
This article provides a brief review and mapping of the critical field of inequality studies in both general and gender-feminist-specific terms. The article approaches the topic by interrogating the meanings associated with inequalities and then turns to the gendered and feminist scholarship to assess the relevance of an evolving literature in providing a lens, both conceptual and empirical, within which African theorisations also accrue. The arg…
Retracted Article: Kwaito’s Busiswa Gqulu, ‘Among men’: Female perspectives on black women’s bodies in club spaces of South Africa
We, the authors, Editors and Publisher of Agenda, have retracted the following article:Bongani Mbatha & Gabi Mkhize, “Kwaito’s Busiswa Gqulu, ‘Among men’: Female perspective on black women’s bodies in club spaces of South Africa”, Agenda 34.1 (2020) 10.1080/10130950.2020.1738724The above article has been retracted as, subsequent to publication, significant overlap in the ‘Representation of African black sexuality’ section has been identified with…
The ‘ normative’ of sex and gender differentiates the bodies it controls to consolidate a heterosexual imperative: A cause of homophobic sexual violence in Africa
Heteronormativity is the way in which social institutions reinforce a socially contracted ‘normative’ belief that human beings fall into two distinct binaries of sex and gender: male/man and female/woman. This ideology produces the idea that those sexes/genders exist to fulfil reproductive roles and hence that all intimate relationships ought to exist only between males/men and females/women. Heteronormative institutions block access to legal, po…
The impact of women’s movements’ activism experiences on gender transformation policies in democratic South Africa
Women’s movement activism has formed significant conduits through which the advancement of gender transformation policies is enacted in South Africa (SA). Through their experiences – strongly rooted in women’s movement activism and its advocacy for gender equity and women’s empowerment – women activists arguably help push the transformation agenda in gender transformation policies, including gender mainstreaming (GM) and Employment Equity (EE). A…
The role of women in tourism in KwaZulu-Natal: Case studies from the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal
In precolonial Africa patriarchal divisions of labour by gender emphasised and reinforced ‘normative’ women’s productive and reproductive roles (Guy, 1987; Eldredge, 1993). Vertical control of labour power by men denied most women the possession of cattle and land, which were the primary source of wealth. Such unequal relations bolstered chiefly power and precolonial state formation in Africa. Colonial and apartheid penetration in South Africa (S…
Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity and Patriarchal Privilege Within Heterosexual Interpersonal Relationships
When it matters not whether one is guilty or innocent: Narratives of female children awaiting trial
In 2011 we evaluated an educational project at Westville Prison, in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. Known as Singakwenza (We can do it), the project is an initiative to rehabilitate children awaiting trial. The three months dedicated to the project afforded us an opportunity to engage at a deeper level with both male and female children awaiting trial. While our task was strictly to assess the programme, the young prisoners awaiting trial were intent on s…
Problematising rhetorical representations of individuals with disability – disabled or living with disability
Antagonism to difference is a ubiquitous human phenomenon. The resulting denigration renders different as abnormal. Individuals perceived to belong to a different norm are usually associated with ‘otherness’. Most women living with disability are rendered both invisible in their societies and represented as the ‘other’ by both the patriarchal system and the majority of those who are able-bodied. This reinforces a simplified idea of ‘disability’ a…
Problematising rhetorical representations of individuals with disability – disabled or living with disability
Antagonism to difference is a ubiquitous human phenomenon. The resulting denigration renders different as abnormal. Individuals perceived to belong to a different norm are usually associated with ‘otherness’. Most women living with disability are rendered both invisible in their societies and represented as the ‘other’ by both the patriarchal system and the majority of those who are able-bodied. This reinforces a simplified idea of ‘disability’ a…
The ‘ normative’ of sex and gender differentiates the bodies it controls to consolidate a heterosexual imperative: A cause of homophobic sexual violence in Africa
Heteronormativity is the way in which social institutions reinforce a socially contracted ‘normative’ belief that human beings fall into two distinct binaries of sex and gender: male/man and female/woman. This ideology produces the idea that those sexes/genders exist to fulfil reproductive roles and hence that all intimate relationships ought to exist only between males/men and females/women. Heteronormative institutions block access to legal, po…
The role of women in tourism in KwaZulu-Natal: Case studies from the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal
In precolonial Africa patriarchal divisions of labour by gender emphasised and reinforced ‘normative’ women’s productive and reproductive roles (Guy, 1987; Eldredge, 1993). Vertical control of labour power by men denied most women the possession of cattle and land, which were the primary source of wealth. Such unequal relations bolstered chiefly power and precolonial state formation in Africa. Colonial and apartheid penetration in South Africa (S…
When it matters not whether one is guilty or innocent: Narratives of female children awaiting trial
In 2011 we evaluated an educational project at Westville Prison, in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. Known as Singakwenza (We can do it), the project is an initiative to rehabilitate children awaiting trial. The three months dedicated to the project afforded us an opportunity to engage at a deeper level with both male and female children awaiting trial. While our task was strictly to assess the programme, the young prisoners awaiting trial were intent on s…
Problematising rhetorical representations of individuals with disability – disabled or living with disability
Antagonism to difference is a ubiquitous human phenomenon. The resulting denigration renders different as abnormal. Individuals perceived to belong to a different norm are usually associated with ‘otherness’. Most women living with disability are rendered both invisible in their societies and represented as the ‘other’ by both the patriarchal system and the majority of those who are able-bodied. This reinforces a simplified idea of ‘disability’ a…
Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinity and Patriarchal Privilege Within Heterosexual Interpersonal Relationships
The role of women in tourism in KwaZulu-Natal: Case studies from the South Coast of KwaZulu-Natal
In precolonial Africa patriarchal divisions of labour by gender emphasised and reinforced ‘normative’ women’s productive and reproductive roles (Guy, 1987; Eldredge, 1993). Vertical control of labour power by men denied most women the possession of cattle and land, which were the primary source of wealth. Such unequal relations bolstered chiefly power and precolonial state formation in Africa. Colonial and apartheid penetration in South Africa (S…
The impact of women’s movements’ activism experiences on gender transformation policies in democratic South Africa
Women’s movement activism has formed significant conduits through which the advancement of gender transformation policies is enacted in South Africa (SA). Through their experiences – strongly rooted in women’s movement activism and its advocacy for gender equity and women’s empowerment – women activists arguably help push the transformation agenda in gender transformation policies, including gender mainstreaming (GM) and Employment Equity (EE). A…
Gendered and feminist inequalities: A review and framing notes
This article provides a brief review and mapping of the critical field of inequality studies in both general and gender-feminist-specific terms. The article approaches the topic by interrogating the meanings associated with inequalities and then turns to the gendered and feminist scholarship to assess the relevance of an evolving literature in providing a lens, both conceptual and empirical, within which African theorisations also accrue. The arg…
Retracted Article: Kwaito’s Busiswa Gqulu, ‘Among men’: Female perspectives on black women’s bodies in club spaces of South Africa
We, the authors, Editors and Publisher of Agenda, have retracted the following article:Bongani Mbatha & Gabi Mkhize, “Kwaito’s Busiswa Gqulu, ‘Among men’: Female perspective on black women’s bodies in club spaces of South Africa”, Agenda 34.1 (2020) 10.1080/10130950.2020.1738724The above article has been retracted as, subsequent to publication, significant overlap in the ‘Representation of African black sexuality’ section has been identified with…
The ‘ normative’ of sex and gender differentiates the bodies it controls to consolidate a heterosexual imperative: A cause of homophobic sexual violence in Africa
Heteronormativity is the way in which social institutions reinforce a socially contracted ‘normative’ belief that human beings fall into two distinct binaries of sex and gender: male/man and female/woman. This ideology produces the idea that those sexes/genders exist to fulfil reproductive roles and hence that all intimate relationships ought to exist only between males/men and females/women. Heteronormative institutions block access to legal, po…
LGBTI+ persons’ concealed displacement in Zimbabwe
In many parts of the world individuals are subjected to serious human rights abuses because of their sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expressions, and sex characteristics, particularly when these do not conform to dominant social and cultural norms. Severe persecution and discrimination from both state and non-state actors force LGBTI+ persons to leave their places of habitual residence in search of a safe environment in which they can…
Comparative analysis of black queer feminist isiXhosa and English poetry
Black queer feminist literature remains under-researched. This reflects the societal marginalisation of black queer authors in South Africa. Our article offers a comparative analysis of the representation of black queer women by black queer and cisgender authors in selected isiXhosa and English poetry. The poems selected are from Unam Wena (2021) by Mthunzikazi Mbungwana and red cotton (2018) by vangile gantsho. Firstly, we explore how queer femi…
Genders, Sexualities, and Complexities in Africa
The book project strives to establish and interpret the experiences and realities of African migration using African epistemology and philosophy.
Sexual and Gender Identity Development among Adolescent LGBTI+ Individuals in Zimbabwe
During the identity formation stage of adolescents, the social world is described as extremely complex. The stakes are even higher for those who develop non-normative sexual and gender identities. The study sought to investigate the identity developmental experiences of LGBTI + adolescents in African communities. Through a qualitative inquiry, adopting a life histories approach as a data collection method, this study used in-depth interviews and …
Gender Studies (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Political science (9 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · African Sexualities and LGBTQ+ Issues (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · South African History and Culture (4 works)