Yvette Abrahams Explained

Yvette Abrahams
Birth Date:	early 1960s
Birth Place:	Cape Town
Alma Mater:	University of Cape Town Queen's University at Kingston
Occupation:	Organic farmer Activist Feminist scholar in South Africa
Mother:	Kenneth Abrahams
Father:	Ottilie Abrahams

Yvette Abrahams is an organic farmer, activist and feminist scholar in South Africa.^[1]

Life

Yvette Abrahams was born in Cape Town in the early 1960s,^[2] the daughter of Namibian activists Ottilie Abrahams and Kenneth Abrahams.^[3] She grew up in exile in Zambia, England and Sweden. Returning to study at the University of Cape Town, she dropped out of university for some time to be an anti-apartheid activist.^[2] Abrahams gained her MA in history from Queen's University at Kingston, writing her dissertation on Khoisan resistance.^[4] In 2002 she gained a Ph.D. in economic history from the University of Cape Town,^[2] with a 2000 dissertation on Sarah Baartman.^[5]

Works

• Was Eva raped? An exercise in speculative History, Kronos, No. 23 (November 1996), pp. 3–21.
• The Great Long National Insult: 'Science', Sexuality and the Khoisan in the 18th And Early 19th Century, Agenda 13: 32 (1997)
• 'Images of Sarah Bartman: Sexuality, Race, and Gender in Early-Nineteenth-Century Britain', in Ruth Roach Pierson, Nupur Chaudhuri and Beth McAuley (eds.) Nation, Empire, Colony: Historicizing Gender and Race, Indiana University Press, 1998, pp. 220–
• 'Ambiguity is my middle name: A research diary', in Nomboniso Gasa (ed.) Women in South African History: They Remove Boulders and Cross Rivers, HSRC Press, 2007, pp. 421–
• (with Sharlene Khan, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Neelika Jayawardane and Betty Govinden) '“Thinking Through, Talking Back: Creative Theorisation as Sites of Praxis-Theory” – A creative dialogue between Sharlene Khan, Pumla Dineo Gqola, Yvette Abrahams, Neelika Jayawardane and Betty Govinden', Agenda 32:3 (2018), pp. 109–118.

Notes and References

1. News: Zukiswa Pikoli . Hungry men and women are angry men and women, say activists . Daily Maverick . 27 July 2021 .
2. Web site: Brief Profile of Yvette Abrahams . University of Cape Town News .
3. News: Yvette Abrahams . Tribute to 'Mother of Education' . The Namibian . 4 July 2018 .
4. Yvette Abrahams . Resistance, pacification and consciousness: a discussion of the historiography of Khoisan resistance from 1972 to 1993 and Khoisan resistance from 1652 to 1853 . M.A. . Queen's University at Kingston . 1994 .
5. Yvette Abrahams . Colonialism, dysfunction and dysjuncture : the historiography of Sarah Bartmann . Ph.D. . University of Cape Town . 2000 .