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University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, Dr Shireen Hassim

Ass.Prof Shireen Hassim


Senior Lecturer

MA(Univ Natal) PhD (York Univ)


Email : shireen.hassim@wits.ac.za

Research Interests

Her current research interests include gender and social policy,
political parties and democratisation, and the impacts of quotas for women.


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Publications

Co-editor (with Anne Marie Goetz) of No Shortcuts to Power: African Women in Politics and Policy-Making (Zed Books, 2003).

Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa: Contesting Authority, University of Wisconsin Press, 2006.

Co-editor, with Shahra Razavi, of Gender and Social Policy in Global Context: Uncovering the Gendered Structure of the ‘Social’ (Palgrave, 2006).

Co-editor of Politics and Society (published by Sage).