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...course again, ending up in an almost prophetic vein with a string of new metaphors: “now arrives the hour of action”, “we stand at the birth of new millennium”, “a new national pride will stir ourselves, lift our sights and heal our divisions”. Trace the progression of these central metaphors and you see an interesting progression. First come the metaphors of...

...course, went on to win that election. So what now? How do we explain these events to our children – both boys and girls? How do we deal with the disappointment of the next generation when their expectations of gender equity are not met? What we have seen in recent times is a generation of women who have grown to expect equality – to be allowed to succeed academically,...

...course, in all sorts of ways extraordinary. In a little over a year, the 39-year-old former finance minister has gone from being a wannabe to the future tenant of the Elysée Palace. He struck out alone to form his own political movement and while much of the froth surrounding the election has focused on his opponent, the enormity of his achievement needs to be...

...course there will be some processes that flow deeper than others, or with more stability, but ultimately all is in flux Social constructionism was as much a political as an epistemological intervention, and as such it can only be properly grasped in these hybrid terms. What on the epistemological plane was a challenge to any essentialism that claimed a fixed order became,...