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Prof. Louise du Toit Professor

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Louise du Toit is ʼn professor in filosofie. Sy het sedert 1997 aan die Universiteit van Johannesburg klas gegee, totdat sy in 2010 na Stellenbosch verhuis het. Haar hoof- navorsingsbelangstellings sluit ʼn groot verskeidenheid temas binne die feministiese filosofie in, veral op die koppelvlak tussen Afrika- en Europese tradisies. Sy stel belang in seksuele geweld, kritiese teorie, politieke filosofie, hermeneutiek, filosofie en letterkunde, fenomenologie, regsfilosofie, omgewingsfilosofie, en die feministiese filosofie van godsdiens. Sy is die outeur van A Philosophical Investigation of Rape: the making and unmaking of the feminine self (Routledge, 2009) en was ʼn gasredakteur van ‘Rape and Its Meaning(s)’, ʼn spesiale uitgawe van Philosophical Papers (November 2009). Saam met Jonathan Chimakonam, het sy African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women (Routledge, 2018) geredigeer, en saam met Ephraim Meir, Ed Noort en Wolfgang Palaver, het sy Nonviolence and Religion (ʼn spesiale uitgawe van die vaktydskrif Religions en ʼn boek wat 2023 deur MDPI uitgegee is) geredigeer. Sy dien in die redaksiekommissie van Philosophy and Rhetoric, Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology, De Uil van Minerva en Gender Questions. Sy is tans betrokke by verskeie internasionale navorsingsmedewerkings met temas wat verband hou met seksuele geweld en niegeweldadige weerstand. Sy was al ʼn besoekende genoot/navorser by die regsfakulteit van die Universiteit van Bristol (2019), die Center for Theological Inquiry (Sentrum vir Teologiese Ondersoek) in Princeton (2018), en die Stellenbosch Instituut vir Gevorderde Studie (2017, 2020 en 2021). Sy het reeds as studieleier gedien vir 10 PhD’s en 19 MA-grade, en het C2- en C1-graderings van die NNS ontvang. Sy het al meer as 60 gerefereerde artikels en hoofstukke gepubliseer en aanbiedings by meer as 100 konferensies en seminare gelewer.

Prof. Louise du Toit
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Geselekteerde Publikasies

Boeke

  • 2023. Nonviolence and Religion (eds.) Louise du Toit, Ephraim Meir, Ed Noort and Wolfgang Palaver, MDPI. 2018.
  • African Philosophy and the Epistemic Marginalization of Women (eds.) Jonathan Chimakonam and Louise du Toit, New York and London: Routledge (Taylor & Francis).
  • 2009. Du Toit, Louise. A Philosophical Investigation of Rape: The Making and Unmaking of the Feminine Self. New York & London: Routledge (available in paperback).

Vaktydskrifartikels

  • Du Toit, Louise. “Dis-enclosing the feminine of the oppressed; or: The haunting of the ghost of modernity”. Forthcoming in Journal for Religion and Transformation (JRAT).
  • 2024. Smith, Charla, and Du Toit, Louise. “‘Show Us How Much It Hurts’: A Relational-Processual Approach to Redistributing Shame After Rape Towards Nuanced, Effective Activism”. Gender Questions 12 (2), 25 pages. https://doi.org/10.25159/2412-8457/15829.
  • 2024. Coetzee, Azille, Du Toit, Louise and Gouws, Amanda. “White Women and Antiracism in the (Post)Colony of South Africa”, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 49(3), Spring 2024, pp.609-631.
  • 2023. Huysamer, Julia and Du Toit, Louise. “Non-binary gender in African personhood?”, South African Journal of Philosophy, 42(3), pp.246-260. DOI:10.1080/02580136.2023.2273029.
  • 2023. Du Toit, Louise, Meir, Ephraim, Noort, Ed, and Palaver, Wolfgang. “Introduction” to the Special Issue of Religions, “Nonviolence and Religion”’. Religions 2023, 14(3), 403; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel14030403  (see https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/14/3/403)
  • 2023. Du Toit, Louise & Coetzee, Azille. “Watery Hauntings: A glossary for African Philosophy in a Different Key”, Philosophy & Rhetoric  56 (1), pp. 51–75; ; https://doi.org/10.5325/philrhet.56.1.0051
  • 2023. Charla Smith & Louise du Toit. “On thinking about interpersonal violence and the impotence of force”, South African Journal of Philosophy, 42(1), pp. 24-36, DOI: 10.1080/02580136.2023.2211825
  • 2022. Du Toit, Louise. “Gandhi and the Gender of Nonviolent Resistance” in Religions, 13(5), 467; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel13050467
  • 2021. Du Toit, Louise & Vosloo, Jana L. “When Bodies Speak Differently: putting Judith Butler in conversation with Mahatma Gandhi on Nonviolent Resistance”. Religions 12: pp. 627-643. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12080627
  • 2021. Du Toit, Louise and Le Roux, Elisabet. “A feminist reflection on male victims of conflict-related sexual violence”, European Journal of Women’s Studies, 2021, 28(2), pp. 115–128.
  • 2021. Du Toit, Louise. “Eithne Dowds: Feminist Engagement with International Criminal Law: Norm Transfer, Complementarity, Rape and Consent”, Feminist Legal Studies 29, pp. 417-421. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10691-021-09459-1
  • 2020. Du Toit, Louise. “Die pot kook oral”: NP van Wyk Louw, Johannes Degenaar en Afrikaanse dekolonisering”, Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe, 60 (2), pp. 336-350.
  • 2019. Du Toit, Louise. “Towards a slow decolonisation of sexual violence”, Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence, 1 (1), pp.34-54.
  • 2019. Du Toit, Louise. “The African Animal Other: Decolonising Nature”, Angelaki: Journal of the Theoretical Humanities, 24(2), April 2019, pp. 130-142.
  • 2018. Coetzee, Azille & Du Toit, Louise. “Facing the sexual demon of colonial power: Decolonising sexual violence in South Africa”, European Journal of Women’s Studies, 25 (2), pp.214-227.
  • 2017. Du Toit, Louise. “Sexual Violence, Religion and Women’s Rights in Global Perspective”, Religious Studies and Theology, 36(2), pp.155-170.
  • 2016. Du Toit, Louise. “The South African Constitution as Memory and Promise: An Exploration of Its Implications for Sexual Violence”, Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, 44(1), April 2016, pp.31-51. DOI:10.1080/02589346.2016.1155133.
  • 2015. Du Toit, Louise. “‘When everything starts to flow’: Nkrumah and Irigaray in search of emancipatory ontologies”, Phronimon, 16(2), pp.1-20.
  • 2014. Du Toit, Louise. “Shifting Meanings of Postconflict Sexual Violence in South Africa”, Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 40(1), pp. 101-123.
  • 2013. Du Toit, Louise. “In the Name of What? Defusing the Rights-Culture Debate by Revisiting the Universals of Both Rights and Culture”, Politikon: South African Journal of Political Studies, 40(1), April 2013, pp.15-34.
  • 2012. Du Toit, Louise. “From consent to coercive circumstances: rape law reform on trial”, South African Journal on Human Rights; 28(3), pp. 380-404.
  • 2008. Du Toit, Louise.” Old Wives’ Tales and Philosophical Delusions: on the ‘Problem of Women and African Philosophy’”, South African Journal of Philosophy special edition on African Philosophy, edited by Pedro Tabensky.

Boekhoofstukke

  • Du Toit, Louise and Vosloo, Jana. ‘Gandhi and Butler: On the importance of student peaceful assembly, freedom of expression and nonviolent coalitions for resistance in our time’, forthcoming in Festschrift: In honour of Anton A van Niekerk.
  • 2024. Du Toit, Louise. ‘From Natal to the Transvaal: Women in the Front Lines of the Satyagraha March of 1913’, in (eds.) Tabatha Abu El-Haj, Michael Hamilton, Thomas Probert and Sharath Srinivasan Oxford Handbook on Peaceful Assembly. Oxford University Press, https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197674871.013.10, accessed 26 June 2024.
  • 2023. Du Toit, Louise. ‘African Conceptions of Human Dignity, and Violence Against Women in South Africa’, in (eds.) Motsamai Molefe and Christopher Allsobrook Human Dignity in an African Context.  Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan, Springer, 155-185.
  • 2023. Du Toit, Louise. Reading International Rape Law from the South, in (eds.) Kate Gleeson and Yvette Russell New Directions in Sexual Violence Scholarship: Law, Power and Change. London: Routledge.
  • 2022. Du Toit, Louise. Contesting the Meaning/s of Sexual Violence in the South African Post-colony: where are the male victims? in (eds.) Srila Roy, Shilpa Phadke and Nicky Falkoff, Intimacy and Injury: in the wake of #MeToo in India and South Africa, Manchester UP.
  • 2022. Du Toit, Louise. An African Feminist Approach to Political Forgiveness: Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Considered, in (eds.) Paula Satné & Krisanna M Scheiter, Conflict and Resolution: The Ethics of Forgiveness, Revenge, and Punishment, Springer.
  • 2021. Boshoff, Elsabé and Du Toit, Louise. Transitional Justice, Sexual Violence, and Women’s Status in Africa, in (eds.) E. Uchendu & N Edeagu, Negotiating Patriarchy and Gender in Africa: Discourses, Practices, Policies, Lexington Books, 241-255.
  • 2019. Du Toit, Louise. Resisting the Symbolic Power of (War) Rape, In Plain Sight: Sexual Violence in Armed Conflict. (Eds.) Gaby Zipfel, Kirsten Campbell, Regina Muelhaüser. New Delhi: Zubaan Books.
  • 2018. Du Toit, Louise. The Right to Interpret: Epistemic Justice for Women in South Africa, Justice-based Ethics: Challenging South African Perspectives, AOSIS, (ed.) Chris Jones, pp. 2018, pp. 3-28.
  • 2017. Du Toit, Louise and Azille Coetzee. Gendering African Philosophy; or: African Feminism as Decolonising Force in Handbook of African Philosophy(eds. Adoshina Afolayan and Toyin Falola), Palgrave Macmillan.
  • 2016. Du Toit, Louise. Exploring Rape as an Attack on Erotic Goods inIdentity and Difference: Contemporary Debates on the Self(ed. Rafael Winkler), Palgrave Macmillan.
  • 2011. Du Toit, Louise. How not to give rape political significance in Confronting Global Gender Justice: Women’s Lives, Human Rights (eds.) Debra Bergoffen, Paula Ruth Gilbert, Tamara Harvey and Connie L McNeely. New York & London: Routledge.
  • 2007. Du Toit, H. Louise. Feminism and the Ethics of Reconciliation in Law and the Politics of Reconciliation, (ed.) S. Veitch, Aldershot: Ashgate (in the Edinburgh Centre for Law and Society Series), pp. 185 – 213.
  • 2007. Du Toit, Louise. The Conditions of Consent in Choice and Consent: Feminist Engagements with Law and Subjectivity(eds.) Rosemary Hunter & Sharon Cowan. London: GlassHouse Press, pp. 58 – 73.
  • 2005. Du Toit, Louise. A Phenomenology of Rape: Forging a New Vocabulary for Action in Unthinking Citizenship: Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa, (ed.) Amanda Gouws, Aldershot: Ashgate and UCT Press, pp 253 – 274.

Onderrig

Voorgraads

  • Inleiding tot morele filosofie (eerstejaarsvlak)
  • Fenomenologie en eksistensialisme (derdejaarsvlak)
  • Weerstandsfilosofieë (derdejaarsvlak)

Nagraads

  • Feministiese teorie en die reg (honneursvlak)
  • Judith Butler se oeuvre (honneursvlak)
  • Feministe wat die Antieke lees (honneursvlak)
  • Inleiding tot toegepaste etiek; Omgewingsetiek en filosofie (nagraadsediplomavlak en MPhil [Toegepaste Etiek])
  • Mellon Winterskool in Afrika-filosofie