Books written by Pumla Dineo Gqola:
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2022) Female Fear Factory: Gender and Patriarchy Under Racial Capitalism. Nigeria: Cassava Republic Press. ISBN 1913175154, 9781913175153.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2021) Miriam Tlali: Writing Freedom (Voices of Liberation). HSRC Press. ISBN: 978-0796925626.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2017) Reflecting Rogue – Inside The Mind Of A Feminist. South Africa: Jacana Media. ISBN: 978-1-920601-87-4.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2015) Rape: A South African Nightmare. Johannesburg: MF Books.
ISBN 192060152X, 9781920601522.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2013) A renegade called Simphiwe. South Africa: Jacana Media. ISBN: 978-1-920601-08-9.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2010) What Is Slavery To Me? – Postcolonial/Slave Memory In Post-Apartheid South Africa. South Africa: Wits University Press. ISBN: 978-1-86814-507-2.
Book chapters by Pumla Dineo Gqola
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2023) Travel Disruptions: Irritability and Canonisation. In Reading from the South: African print cultures and oceanic turns in Isabel Hofmeyr’s work. Charne Lavery & Sarah Nuttall (Eds). Johannesburg: Wits University Press. Pp. 199-208.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2021) Chapter 3 – A Playful But Also Very Serious Love Letter to Gabrielle Goliath. In Surfacing: On Being Black and Feminist in South Africa. Desiree Lewis and Gabeba Baderoon (Eds). Johannesburg: Wits University Press. Pp. 49-55.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2018) A peculiar place for a feminist? The New South African woman, True Love magazine and Lebo(gang) Mashile. In Contemporary African Mediations of Affect and Access. Helene Strauss, Sarah Olutola & Jessie Forsyth (Eds). Pp. 13-30.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2011) Through Zanele Muholi’s eyes: re/imagining ways of seeing Black lesbians. In African Sexualities: A Reader. Sylvia Tamale (Ed). Cape Town: Pambazuka Press. Pp. 622- 629.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2011) Unconquered and insubordinate: Embracing black feminist intellectual activist legacies. In Becoming worthy ancestors: Archive public deliberation and identity in South Africa. Xolela Mangcu (Ed). Johannesburg: Wits University Press. Pp. 67-88.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2009) Blackwomen’s Bodies as Battlegrounds in Black Consciousness Literature: Wayward Sex and (Interracial) Rape as Tropes in Staffrider, 1978-1982. In Imagining, Writing, (Re)Reading the Black Body. Sandra Jackson, Fassil Demissie, & Michele Goodwin (Eds). UNISA Press. Pp.97-113.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2010) Negotiating Gender and Access to Knowledge Technology in the Urban Context. In Urban Diversity: Space, Culture, and Inclusive Pluralism in Cities Worldwide. Caroline Wanjiku Kihato, Mejgan Massoumi, Blair A Ruble, Pep Subiros, & Alison M Garland (Eds). Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. Pp. 123-144.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2008) Brutal Inheritances: Echoes, Negrophobia and Masculinist Violence. In Go Home or Die Here: Violence, Xenophobia and the Reinvention of Difference in South Africa. S. Hassim, T. Kupe, & E. Worby (Eds.). Wits University Press. https://doi.org/10.18772/22008114877.18. Pp. 209-223.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2007) CHAPTER 2: ‘Like three tongues in one mouth’: Tracing the elusive lives of slave women in (slavocratic) South Africa. In Basus’iimbokodo, bawel’imilambo/ They remove boulders and cross rivers: Women in South African History. Nomboniso Gasa (Ed). Cape Town: HSRC Press. Pp. 21-41.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2007) A woman cannot marry a boy: Rescue, spectacle and transitional Xhosa masculinities. From boys to men: social constructions of masculinity in contemporary society. T Shefer, K Ratele, A Strebel, N Shabalala & R Buikema (Eds). Cape Town: UCT Press. 145-159.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2005) A Question of Semantics? On Not Calling People Endangered. In Perspectives on Endangerment. Graham Huggan & Stephan Klasen (Eds).
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2004) Language and power, languages of power: A black woman’s journey through three South African universities. In Hear our Voices: Race, Gender and the Status of Black South African Women in the Academy. Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela and Zine Magubane (Eds). Pretoria: University of South Africa Press. Pp. 25-40.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2004) Forced to think: Innovation and womanist traditions in Sindiwe Magona’s wor(l)ds. In Sindiwe Magona: The First Decade. Siphokazi Koyana (Ed). University of KwaZulu-Natal Press. Pp.51-66.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2001) ‘Slaves don’t have opinions’: Inscriptions of Slave Bodies and the Denial of Agency in Rayda Jacobs’ The Slave Book. In Coloured by history, shaped by place: new perspectives on Coloured identities in Cape Town. Zimitri Erasmus (Ed). Cape Town: Kwela Books.
Journal articles by Pumla Dineo Gqola
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2023). 26 Religious Mapping, Epistemic Risk and Archival Adventure in Athambile Masola’s Ilifa Pumla Dineo Gqola i SHORT BIO ABSTRACT. African Journal of Gender and Religion. 29(1): 26-50. DOI: 10.36615/ajgr.v29i1.2320.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2021) Mona Eltahawy’s cartographies of feminist fury. Imbiza: Journal for African Writing. 2.1(1): 114-117.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2016) A peculiar place for a feminist? The New South African woman, True Love magazine and Lebo(gang) Mashile. Safundi. 17(2): 119-136. DOI:10.1080/17533171.2016.1178470
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2016) Intimate foreigners or violent neighbours? Thinking masculinity and post-apartheid xenophobic violence through film. Agenda. 30(2): 64-74. 10.1080/10130950.2016.1215625.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2011) Whirling worlds? Women’s poetry, feminist imagination and contemporary South African publics. Scrutiny2. 16(2): 5-11. DOI: 10.1080/18125441.2011.631823
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2010) Defining people: Analysing power, language and representation in metaphors of the New South Africa. Transformation. 47: 94-106.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2009) “The difficult task of normalizing freedom”: spectacular masculinities, Ndebele’s literary/cultural commentary and post-apartheid life. English in Africa. 36(1): 61-76.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2007) How the ‘cult of femininity’ and violent masculinities support endemic gender based violence in contemporary South Africa. African Identities. 5(1): 111-124. DOI: 10.1080/14725840701253894.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2007) Making ICTs do feminist work: the example of Women’sNet and LinuxChix Africa in Johannesburg. CCCB. “Challenges of urban diversity: Inclusive cities vs divided cities”. University of the Witwatersrand, 12-13 March 2007. Pp 17.
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Salo, Elaine & Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2006) Editorial: Subaltern sexualities. Feminist Africa. 6: 1-6.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2006) In defence and embrace of ourselves: black women intellectual activists, self-love and technological interventions. Foundation for the Empowerment of Women’s (FEW) black lesbian and bisexual conference. Constitution Hill, Johannesburg, 5-8 August 2006. Pp 9.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2006) Bridging the divide between development goals, research and policy in developing countries. 1st International African conference on Gender, Transport and Development. Boardwalk Casino, Port Elizabeth, 2006.
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2005) Yindaba kaban’ u’ba ndilahl’ umlenze? Sexuality and Body Image. Agenda. 19(63): 3-9. DOI: 10.1080/10130950.2005.9674559.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2005) Memory, diaspora and spiced bodies in motion: Berni Searle’s art. African Identities. 3(2): 123-138. DOI 10.1080/14725840500235365.
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Goniwe, Thembinkosi doctorate & Gqola, Pumla Dineo graduate (2005) A neglected heritage: the aesthetics of complex Black masculinities. Agenda. 19(63): 80-94.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2001) Defining people: Analysing power, language and representation in metaphors of the New South Africa. Transformation. 47.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2001) Contradictory Locations: Blackwomen and the Discourse of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) in South Africa. Meridians. 2(1): 130-152.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2001) “Where there is no novelty, there can be no curiosity”: Reading Imoinda’s Body in Aphra Behn’s Oroonoko or, the Royal Slave. English in Africa. 28(1): 105- 117.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2001) In search of female s/staffriders: Authority, gender and audience, 1978-1982. Current Writing: Text and Reception in Southern Africa. 13(2): 31-41.
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Gqola, Pumla Dineo (2001) Ufanele uqavile: Blackwomen, feminisms and postcoloniality in Africa. Agenda: Empowering women for gender equity. 16(50): 11-22.
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Yates, Kimberly; Gqola, Pumla Dineo & Ramphele, Mamphela (1998) This little bit of madness: Mamphela Ramphele on being black and transgressive. Agenda. 14(37): 90-95. DOI: 10.1080/10130950.1998.9675699.
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Theses by Pumla Dineo Gqola
Gqola, Pumla Dineo (1999) Black woman, you are on your own: Images of black women in Staffrider short stories, 1978-1982. Masters thesis. University of Cape Town.
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