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Patricia McFadden, born in Swaziland (1952), worked in the antiapartheid struggle for 20 years. She has taught at university level since 1976. Currently she is based Harare, Zimbabwe as director of the Feminist Studies Centre. Author of numerous articles, she was former editor of the Southern African Feminist Review and present editor of African Feminist Perspectives. Patricia is a member of the Development Alternatives for Women in the New Era (DAWN) and Akina Mama wa Afrika networks, and is also a gender trainer for the Women's Movement and the United Nations system.

Patricia McFadden is a radical African Feminist/Scholar. She lives and works in Zimbabwe as well as at the level of the regional and global women's movement. (She considers the Women's Movement her home) She works particularly in conceptualising gender within the African context; making the distinction between Gender as a construct and Feminism as a political ideology/stance. She also works in Sexuality and Reproductive Rights/Health, and more recently she has been focusing on issues of citizenship and relations of property between African women and the state. (2001)