Feminist Institutionalism in South Africa Designing for Gender Equality

Amanda Gouws is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and the NRF funded SARChI Chair in Gender Politics, Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University, South Africa. Her specialization is South African Politics and Gender Politics. Her research focuses on women and citizenship, the National Gender Machinery and women's representation, areas in which she has published widely. She is the editor of (Un)Thinking Citizenship: Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa. Her edited book with Daiva Stasiulis, from Carleton University, Gender and Multiculturalism: North/South Perspectives appeared with Routledge Press in 2014. Edited volumes with Joy Watson, Nasty Women Talk Back appeared with Imbali Press in 2017, and with Olivia Ezeobi, COVID Diaries: Women's Experience of the Pandemic, with Imbali Press, 2021. She was a Commissioner for the South African Commission for Gender Equality from 2012-2014. She received the Rector's Award for Media Engagement and Thought Leadership in 2018 and 2019. She currently resides in Stellenbosch, South Africa.