Vida de Voss

Vida V. de Voss is a Namibian feminist activist, the director of the Namibian feminist organisation Sister Namibia, and a lecturer in English literature at the Namibia University of Science and Technology.

Vida de Voss
NationalityNamibian
OccupationFeminist activist
Known forSister Namibia

Education

De Voss earned a master's degree in philosophy from Stellenbosch University in 2006, and her master's thesis was entitled, Emmanuel Levinas on ethics as the first truth.[1] In 2010, she earned a master's degree in English literature from Iowa State University, and her thesis was entitled The Identity Challenge in Toni Morrison's "Paradise" .[2]

Career

De Voss has been a lecturer in English literature at the Namibia University of Science and Technology since 2013.[3]

De Voss is the director of Sister Namibia, a feminist organisation and publisher of an eponymous magazine (first published in 1989), based in Windhoek.[4][5] De Voss has also been a guest speaker at the University of Namibia in Windhoek.[6] In March 2016, she spoke to an audience of hundreds of women at a conference at Windhoek's Safari Court Hotel to commemorate International Women's Day.[7]

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gollark: Wait, string.dump could work, I guess.
gollark: I originally tried `load` with an env table for the sandbox, but that failed horribly for some reason. Basically, while functions I explicitly redefined were fine, anything depending on them kept the old values somehow.
gollark: That kind of makes sense. Is there a way around that other than pcalling it?
gollark: Well, it's better than potatOS's current sandbox... probably.

References
  1. "Author". scholar.sun.ac.za. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  2. Vida, De Voss (6 November 2017). "The Identity Challenge in Toni Morrison's "Paradise"". iastate.edu. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  3. "Vida de Voss - Bayt.com". people.bayt.com. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  4. "Contact us". sisternamibia.com. 30 June 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  5. "Vision". sisternamibia.com. 30 June 2014. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  6. "UNAM German Studies career day inspires students and employers". University of Namibia. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
  7. "Namibia commemorates the International Women's Day: Hanns-Seidel-Stiftung". www2.hss.de. Retrieved 6 November 2017.
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