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Amanda Gouws is Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of Stellenbosch, South Africa, where she holds a SARChI Chair in Gender Politics. She holds a PhD from the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign in the USA.  Her specialization is South African Politics and Gender Politics. Her research focuses on women and citizenship, the National Gender Machinery and women’s representation and gender based violence, areas in which she has published widely.  She is the editor of (Un)Thinking Citizenship: Feminist Debates in Contemporary South Africa. (UK: Ashgate and Cape Town: Juta, 2005). In 2012 she received the Wilma Rule Award for the best paper at the International Political Science Association Conference in Madrid, Spain, in the category Gender and Politics. Her edited book with Daiva Stasiulis, from Carleton University, Gender and Multiculturalism:North/South Perspectives appeared with Routledge Press in 2014. Her edited collections Nasty Women Talk Back (with Joy Watson) and COIVD Diaries: Women’s Experience of the Pandemic (with Olivia Ezeobi) appeared with Imbali Press in 2017 and 2021. She was a Commissioner for the South African Commission for Gender Equality from 2012-2014.