Login or Register

“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

- William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

About Shereen Essof

Shereen Essof is a Zimbabwean feminist activist and scholar. She is regional coordinator of Just Associates (JASS),Southern Africa, and the co-editor of My dream is to be bold (Fahamu Books)

Articles by Shereen Essof

This week's editor

Mary Fitzgerald is Editor-in-Chief of openDemocracy.

Greek election 2015

Will this be the election that changes Europe?

Charlie Hebdo attack

Our coverage of the Charlie Hebdo attack

Yemen - easy to get wrong

No to TTIP

The secretive EU-US trade deal explained

Meteoric rise of Islamic State

Constitutional conventions: best practice

OurNHS

OurNHS

South Africa: patriarchy, paper, and reclaiming feminism

Shereen Essof 21 February 2012

It’s not an individualist but a collective feminism that we need, one that measures success not by how high a woman can climb, but by the condition in which most women remain, says Shereen Essof