Patricia McFadden

**Patricia McFadden** (yo o tshotsweng ka 1952) ke moemedi wa basadi wa Moaforika yo o tlhoafetseng, moithutaloago, mokwadi, morutabana, le mogatisi go tswa kwa Eswatini. Gape ke molweladitshwanelo le motlhalefi yo o dirileng mo mokgatlhong o o kgatlhanong le tlhaolele dingwaga di feta masome mabedi. McFadden o dirile mo mekgatlhong ya basadi ba Aforika le ya lefatshe ka bophara. Jaaka mokwadi, o ntse a bogisiwa ka ntlha ya sepolotiki. O dirile jaaka morulaganyi wa *Southern African Feminist Review* and *African Feminist Perspectives*. Ga jaana o ruta, le go buelela dikgang tsa basadi lefatshe ka bophara. McFadden o kile a nna moporofesa kwa Yunibesithing ya Cornell, kwa Kholetšheng ya Spelman, kwa Yunibesithing ya Syracuse le kwa Kholetšheng ya Smith kwa United States. Gape o dira jaaka "mogakolodi wa basadi", a tshegetsa basadi mo go tlhameng mafelo a basadi a a tswelelang pele mo Borwa jwa Aforika.

## Botshelo jwa gagwe
O tsene kwa Yunibesithing ya Botswana le Swaziland a ithuta dipolotiki le tsamaiso, mme a ithutela itsholelo le sociology e le dithuto tse dinnye. Morago ga moo o ne a ya kwa Yunibesithing ya Dar es Salaam go ya go dira digerata ya master mo sociology. O amogetse PhD ya gagwe kwa Yunibesithing ya Warwick kwa United Kingdom ka 1987.

## Tiro
O ne a dira jaaka modiredi wa lenaneo kwa Southern African Regional Institute for Policy Studies (SARIPS) kwa Zimbabwe, go tloga ka 1993 go ya kwa go 2005. O ne a dira jaaka morulaganyi wa *Southern African Feminist Review* go tloga ka 1995 go ya kwa go 2000. O ne a dira jaaka motsamaisi wa boditšhabatšhaba kwa International Women's University (IFU) go tloga ka 1998 go ya kwa go 2000 kwa Hanover. Gape o ne a ruta mo thulaganyong ya Masters in Social Policy (MPS) e e neng e neelwa ke SARIPS mo dingwageng di le supa tse di fetileng. E ne e le mothusa-moporofesa kwa thulaganyong ya Yunibesithi ya Syracuse ya go Ithuta Kwa Mafatsheng a Sele kwa Zimbabwe mme moragonyana kwa lefelong la motsadi kwa Syracuse New York e le leloko la legoro mo Lefapheng la Dithuto tsa Maaforika a Amerika.

### Ditiro
Jaaka mokwadi, dikarolo tse dikgolo tsa dipatlisiso tsa tlhaloganyo tsa ga McFadden ke: thobalano, boitekanelo jwa tsalo le thobalano, le boitshupo, tlolomolao le boagi jwa basadi ba Aforika. O tlhagisitse dipampiri di le mmalwa kwa diyunibesithing, kwa dikhuduthamageng le kwa diphuthegong lefatshe ka bophara kwa Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Namibia, Aforika Borwa, Ghana, Djibouti, Kenya, Uganda, Brazil, China, Jeremane, Ethiopia, United Kingdom le tse dingwe.

## Dikgatiso

### Ditlhamo

* "Becoming Postcolonial: African Women Changing the Meaning of Citizenship" - 2005.
* "Challenging HIV and AIDS: Resistance and Advocacy in the Lives of Black Women in Southern Africa"
* "War Through a Feminist Lens"
* "Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Positioning Feminism in the ‘Africa Debate,’ and ‘Patriarchy'"
* "Sexuality and Globalization"

### Dibuka

* "Gender in Southern Africa: A Gendered Perspective" (Sapes Books)- 1998
* "Reflections on Gender Issues in Africa" (Sapes Books) - 1999
* "Reconceptualizing the Family in a Changing Southern African Environment" with Sara C. Mvududu (Africa Institute of South Africa), 2001.

## Dietsele

* Seetsele sa Ditshwanelo tsa Setho sa Hellman/Hammett (Human Rights Watch)- 1999
* Sebui sa konokono kwa AFEMS 2019, kwa Yunibesithing ya Witwatersrand

## Metswedi