Miranda N Pillay
Biographic Data
| ID | 8804756 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miranda N Pillay |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miranda N |
| FAMILY NAME | Pillay |
| SIGNATURE | PILLAY M N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Western Cape |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3335-2232 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“First Woman to…” Exceptionalism Discourse
“First women to...” labels define the ways in which women leaders are characterized as “exceptional”. As already pointed out by some feminist scholars, exceptionalism discourse valorizes women’s achievements to the benefit of institutions and their patriarchal culture. While such valorization might enhance gender representation in spaces previously reserved for men, it also commodifies women’s capabilities. This, I argue, calls for resisting the …
Mary-Anne Plaatjies-van Huffel
There’s no doubt that Mary-Ann Plaatjies-van Huffel is amongst the women who “have moved into the academy, assumed religious leadership, and claimed their religious agency and heritage”. However, as a woman of colour Plaatjies-van Huffel’s life and work reveal that she had to navigate her leadership and exercise her agency along a well-beaten patriarchal beaten track. In this article I foreground some “first woman to...” milestones on Plaatjies-v…
Re-membering Tutu’s liberation theology
While Desmond Tutu and other church leaders played a significant role in challenging racism and white supremacy in apartheid South Africa, many churches, including the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, have been slow to recognize and acknowledge that they remain bound to male supremacy inherent in its pervasive patriarchal culture. In 2020, a group of Anglican lay and clergy women called the church to take action and consider the insidious link…
Women, priests and patriarchal ecclesial spaces in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa
In spite of the presence of women in previously male-dominated ecclesial spaces, patriarchal normativity continues to be re-inscribed through the reproduction of knowledge, which sustains skewed gender power relations amongst the clergy. This was a case in point when a newly ordained woman priest in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa was recently addressed as, and given the official title, ‘mother’ during the vestment ritual at a church servi…
The Church, Gender and Aids
Many women and children suffer in silence in cultures where patriarchy is condoned and defended as the natural order of things. The inferior status ascribed women and children where patriarchy is imbued as hypernormative, render them vulnerable to contracting the HI-virus -as the case study cited here reveals. While government and civil society, including the church, sometimes react when violence against women and/or children end in the victim of…
Church Discourse on Hiv/Aids
The HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to evolve and has now reached pandemic proportions in South Africa and other developing countries throughout the world. HIV/AIDS presents a challenge to the well-being of individuals and to the public health of proportions unprecedented in modern history. While the challenge is scientific and medical, it is also psychological, legal, economic, social, ethical and theological. It is no longer a question of “why” the…
Luke 7
The Aids pandemic presents challenges that are varied and complex, and thus it requires exploring unique and creative responses by all sectors of society, including the church. Skewed gender power-relations, and particularly the marginalization of women are understood (among the many exacerbating factors) to be contributing to the spread of the HI-virus. The perceived inferior nature of women has made them socially, economically and sexually more…
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Church Discourse on Hiv/Aids
The HIV/AIDS epidemic continues to evolve and has now reached pandemic proportions in South Africa and other developing countries throughout the world. HIV/AIDS presents a challenge to the well-being of individuals and to the public health of proportions unprecedented in modern history. While the challenge is scientific and medical, it is also psychological, legal, economic, social, ethical and theological. It is no longer a question of “why” the…
Luke 7
The Aids pandemic presents challenges that are varied and complex, and thus it requires exploring unique and creative responses by all sectors of society, including the church. Skewed gender power-relations, and particularly the marginalization of women are understood (among the many exacerbating factors) to be contributing to the spread of the HI-virus. The perceived inferior nature of women has made them socially, economically and sexually more…
The Church, Gender and Aids
Many women and children suffer in silence in cultures where patriarchy is condoned and defended as the natural order of things. The inferior status ascribed women and children where patriarchy is imbued as hypernormative, render them vulnerable to contracting the HI-virus -as the case study cited here reveals. While government and civil society, including the church, sometimes react when violence against women and/or children end in the victim of…
Women, priests and patriarchal ecclesial spaces in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa
In spite of the presence of women in previously male-dominated ecclesial spaces, patriarchal normativity continues to be re-inscribed through the reproduction of knowledge, which sustains skewed gender power relations amongst the clergy. This was a case in point when a newly ordained woman priest in the Anglican Church of Southern Africa was recently addressed as, and given the official title, ‘mother’ during the vestment ritual at a church servi…
Re-membering Tutu’s liberation theology
While Desmond Tutu and other church leaders played a significant role in challenging racism and white supremacy in apartheid South Africa, many churches, including the Anglican Church of Southern Africa, have been slow to recognize and acknowledge that they remain bound to male supremacy inherent in its pervasive patriarchal culture. In 2020, a group of Anglican lay and clergy women called the church to take action and consider the insidious link…
“First Woman to…” Exceptionalism Discourse
“First women to...” labels define the ways in which women leaders are characterized as “exceptional”. As already pointed out by some feminist scholars, exceptionalism discourse valorizes women’s achievements to the benefit of institutions and their patriarchal culture. While such valorization might enhance gender representation in spaces previously reserved for men, it also commodifies women’s capabilities. This, I argue, calls for resisting the …
Mary-Anne Plaatjies-van Huffel
There’s no doubt that Mary-Ann Plaatjies-van Huffel is amongst the women who “have moved into the academy, assumed religious leadership, and claimed their religious agency and heritage”. However, as a woman of colour Plaatjies-van Huffel’s life and work reveal that she had to navigate her leadership and exercise her agency along a well-beaten patriarchal beaten track. In this article I foreground some “first woman to...” milestones on Plaatjies-v…
Sociology (7 works) · Gender Studies (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Patriarchy (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Religion, Gender, and Enlightenment (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · History (3 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works)