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Feb 26th 2024
Tamara Shefer
Tamara Shefer is Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of the Western Cape, Cape Town, South Africa where she has been for 29 years. Her background is in Psychology but she has been in gender studies for the last 20 years and has always engaged in interdisciplinary feminist research, policy and teaching. Her scholarship, also activism and policy, has been mostly directed at intersectional gender and sexual justice, with particular emphasis on young people and with a strong emphasis on boys, men and masculinities. Tamara has worked mostly in South Africa but has many collaborations, engagements and visiting professorships in international contexts.