# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/patricia-mcfadden
# Generated: 2026-08-14T08:22:53.807Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/patricia-mcfadden"
name: "Patricia McFadden"
slug: "patricia-mcfadden"
description: "Patricia McFadden is a radical African feminist, sociologist, writer, educator, and publisher from Eswatini. She is also an activist and scholar who worked in the anti-apartheid movement for more than 20 years. McFadden has worked in the African and global women's movements as well. As a writer, she has been the target of political persecution. She has worked as editor of the Southern African Feminist Review and African Feminist Perspectives. She currently teaches, and advocates internationally for women's issues. McFadden has served as a professor at Cornell University, Spelman College, Syracuse University and Smith College in the United States. She also works as a \"feminist consultant\", supporting women in creating institutionally sustainable feminist spaces within Southern Africa."
tagline: "African feminist and writer"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Afems2019_HistoriesOfEmbodiedEntanglements_011.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1952"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump