Description
This text radiates the following key variables and focal areas: rural working mothers, culture, educated Black women, rural women’s educational experiences, the construction of motherhood, higher education and (resilient) Black female postgraduate students. … it oozes with determination and focus on lactation politics. … What makes this work outstanding is its focus on rurality, femininity and rural spaces.… This conversation … brings different nuances to the gender and South African higher education space.
Mogomme Masoga
Dean and Professor at the University of the Free State
The Faculty of Humanities
This study makes visible what African women have and continue to suffer in multi-layered forms of oppression. These range from the racial, class to gender-based oppression. While much of this has been covered in literature, little has been written about the plight of women in rural settings. Msimango’s work assists in addressing this gaping void…
Professor Sipho Seepe,
Former Deputy Vice-Chancellor,
Institutional Support, University of Zululand.
About the Author
Welile Msimango is a Curriculum and Instructional Studies lecturer at the University of Zululand. She holds a Ph.D. specialising in Curriculum and Instructional Studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Edgewood Campus. She serves as the Curriculum & Instructional Studies Department’s Community Engagement Coordinator. Her research interest is teaching reading in the foundation phase, curriculum and assessment issues, rurality, gender, and inequality.
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