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To eliminate female genital mutilation by 2030, progress would need to be 27 times faster. Understanding shifting trends behind this practice is a start.
Before colonialism black South Africans viewed sex and morality very differently than today.
South African customary law should be understood from the perspective of dissonance between the past and the present.
A new history book shows how entanglements of race, gender, class and sexuality in South Africa flow from the moral contradictions of the settler colonial state.
Bride price practice has both social and psychological implications for the men who pay and those women for whom it is paid.
Here’s how cultural practices are playing a role in many countries in incentivizing parents to educate their girls.
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