Publications and Conference Papers by Yvette Abrahams
2021
Abrahams, Y (2021) Bringing Water to Krotoa’s Gardens: Decolonisation as Direct Action. In D. Lewis & G. Baderoon (Eds.), Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa. Wits University Press. Pp. 274-283.
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2018
Abrahams, Yvette (2018) How Must I Explain to the Dolphins?: An Intersectional Approach to Theorizing the Epistemology of Climate Uncertainty. Environmental Ethics. 40(4): 389-404. DOI:10.5840/enviroethics201840436
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2016
Abrahams, Yvette (2016) “Thank you For Making Me Strong”: Sexuality, Gender and Environmental Spirituality Journal of Theology For Southern Africa June 2016 Special Issue: Sexuality in Africa. 155: 70-87.
2014
Abrahams, Yvette (2014) Knowledge For Power: Rethinking Climate Change, Energy And Gender In South Africa In Women and Climate Change Gender CC – Women For Climate Justice e.v.; pps. 38-42. 6.
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Abrahams, Yvette (2014) Moving Forward To Go Back: Doing Black Feminism In The Time Of Climate Change Agenda: Special Issue on Gender and Climate Change No. 101/28.3, pps. 45-53.
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Abrahams, Yvette With Liz MicDaid: Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Programme: Review 2014 Electricity Governance Initiative SA, Cape Town.
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Abrahams, Yvette (2014) Half Of Nothing Is Still Nothing: Women And Climate Jobs For The One Million Climate Jobs Campaign, Alternative Information and Development Centre, Cape Town.
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2012
Abrahams, Yvette (2012) True Beauty. Agenda. 26(4).
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Abrahams, Yvette (2012) with Martin, Brenda (ed.) Smart Electricity Planning: FastTracking Our Transition to A Healthy, Modern Affordable Electricity Supply For All EGI SA, Cape Town.
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2011
Abrahams, Yvette & Mhlongo, Sibongile & Napo, Vernet (2011) A gendered analysis of water and sanitation services policies and programmes in South Africa: 2006 – 2010. Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity. 25(2): 71-79. DOI:10.1080/10130950.2011.575998
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Abrahams, Y., Omsis, K (2011) “My Tongue Softens On That Other Name”: Poetry, People, and Plants in Sarah Bartmann’s Natural World. In: Gordon-Chipembere, N. (eds) Representation and Black Womanhood. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. DOI:10.1057/9780230339262_3. Pp. 31-46.
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2010
Annecke, Wendy & Abrahams, Yvette & Mohlakoana, Nthabiseng (2010) Left out in the cold while the planet heats up: How can feminists contribute to climate change and energy debates and policy in South Africa today?. Agenda. 24. 36-45.
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Abrahams, Yvette (2008) “STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT THE PRICE OF BREAD! START A BAKERY!”: COLONIAL PATRIARCHY AS THE CAUSE OF CURRENT HIGH FOOD PRICES. Paper prepared for GETNET: Feminist Consultative Conference on Women and Socially Excluded Groups Bearing the Social Costs of The Economic and Social Crisis. Athlone, 30/31 October, 2008.
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2009
Abrahams, Yvette (2009) Plaiting Three Strands: Gender-Based Violence as a Cause of Global Warming. Paper prepared for DAC/HSRC Colloquium on Social Cohesion, 2009. Durban, 29-30 October, 2009.
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2007
Abrahams, Yvette (2007) “Ambiguity Is My Middle Name: A Research Diary” in Gasa, Nomboniso (ed.) “Besus’ imbokodo; Bawel’imilambo: South African Women in History HSRC Press, Pretoria, pp. 421- 453.
Abrahams, Yvette (2007) The Khoekhoe Free Economy: A Model For The Gift In Vaughan, Genevieve (ed.) Women And The Gift Economy: A Radically Different Worldview Is Possible: pps. 217-221.
2005
Abrahams, Yvette (2005) Gender and Locating Sarah Bartmann in the Present. In Democracy X: Marking the Present, Re-presenting the Past. Series: Imagined South Africa, Volume: 7. Andries Oliphant, Peter Delius & Lalou Meltzer (eds). Pp. 150-161.
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History Of The Western Cape Network On Violence Against Women, WCNVAW, Athlone.
Abrahams, Yvette (2005) ‘Ambiguity is My Middle Name’: Teaching Sarah Bartmann in a Historical Context, in Mabokela, Reitumetse and Zine Magubane (eds.) Hear Our Voices: Race, Gender and the Status of Black South African Women in the Academy UNISA Press, Pretoria and Koninglijke Brill, Leiden.
2004
Abrahams, Yvette (2004) The Life And Times Of Sarah Bartmann: Locating this Biography in the Present in Oliphant, Andries (ed.) Democracy X, Iziko Museums, Cape Town.
Abrahams, Yvette (2004) The Life And Times of Sarah Bartmann: An Educators’ Guide IHR, Bellville The Life And Times of Sarah Bartmann: A Learner’s Handbook Educator’s News, Vol. 8, No. 4; special insert own pagination (1-4). 8
2003
Abrahams, Yvette (2003) Colonialism, dysfunction and disjuncture: Sarah Bartmann’s resistance (remix). Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity. 58: 12-26.
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2002
Abrahams, Yvette (2002) Colonialism, Dysfunction and Dysjuncture: Sarah Bartmann’s Resistance (Remix) in Agenda: African Feminisms Three, 17, No. 58; pps. 12-26.
2001
Abrahams, Yvette (2001) Learning by doing. Notes towards the practice of womanist principles in the ‘new’ South Africa. Agenda. 50: 71-76.
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Abrahams, Yvette (2001) We’re Here Because We’re Here – Speaking African Womanism in Duncan, Norman and Pumla Gqola et al (eds.) Discourses on Difference, Discourse on Oppression Centre For Advanced Southern African Studies Cape Town; pps. 37-76.
2000
Abrahams, Yvette (2000) WE’RE HERE BECAUSE WE’RE HERE… SPEAKING AFRICAN WOMANISM. Conference presentation for the Discourses on Difference and Oppression Conference. University of Venda, 19-22 July 2000.
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1998
Abrahams, Yvette (1998) Two Master Narratives and Nowhere to Go: The Semantics of Colouredness in H Wittenberg, G Baderoon and Y Steenkamp (eds) Inter Action: Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Postgraduate Conference, Bellville: University of the Western Cape Press, 115-121.
1997
Abrahams, Yvette (1997) The Great Long National Insult: ‘Science’, Sexuality and the Khoisan in the 18th and Early 19th Century. Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity. 13(32): 34-48.
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Abrahams, Yvette (1997) Images of Sara Bartman: Sexuality, Race and Gender in Early Nineteenth Century Britain; in Pierson, R. Roach (ed) Empire, Colony, Nation: Critical Categories of Race and Gender Analysis Indiana University Press, Indiana; pps. 220-236.
1996
Abrahams, Yvette (1996) Disempowered to Consent: Sara Bartman and Khoisan Slavery in the Nineteenth-Century Cape Colony and Britain. South African Historical Journal. 35. 89-114.
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Abrahams, Yvette (1996) Was Eva Raped ? An Exercise In Speculative History Kronos:Journal Of Cape History, No. 23; pps. 3-21.
1995
Abrahams, Yvette (1995)`Take Me To Your Leaders’: A Critique Of Kraal and Castle Kronos: Journal Of Cape History, No. 22, pps. 21-35.
1994
Abrahams, Yvette (1994) Resistance, pacification and consciousness : a discussion of the historiography of Khoisan resistance from 1972 to 1993 and Khoisan resistance from 1652 to 1853. MA thesis. University of Cape Town.
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