E-mail: ag1@sun.ac.za
Tel: +27 (0)21 808 2116
Qualifications: BA Hons (RAU), MA (RAU) PhD (University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana, USA).
Teaching specialisation:South African Politics, Political Behavior, Gender Studies (including feminist theory and feminist epistemology as well as reproductive rights and women and citizenship).
Research Interests:Women and citizenship, the National Machinery for Women in South Africa, the women's movement in South Africa, the electoral system. In political behaviour her research focus is on political tolerance as well as voting behaviour.
Current Research Projects:
A study on the women's movement in South Africa to determine issues of mobilisation and demobilisation.
A study on the succeses and failures of the implementation of sexual harrassment policies at tertiary education institutions in Southern Africa.
Recent Publications:
(Un)thinking Citizenship: Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa. Ashgate Publishers (2005) (also available in paperback from Juta).
Overcoming Intolerance: Experiments in Democratic Persuasion, Cambridge University Press (2003). (co-authored with Prof Jim Gibson). This publication received the George Alexander Award of the International Political Psychology Association for excellence in research and best book in the field in 2003.
Achievements:
In 2003 Prof. Gouws was the recipient of the Vice-Chancellor of the University of Stellenbosch’ award for excellence in research.
In 2005 she was a guest researcher at the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala, Sweden.
Prof Gouws serves on the Board of the African Gender Institute at the University of Cape Town
