Many issues remain unexplored in the feminist theory in the aspects of sex and gender. The gray areas, in theory, exist between the cultural and biological differences in sex without the elimination of the latter. In her writing, “Against Proper Objects,” Butler advised the readers not to focus on the two differences, but the feminist theory places considerable emphasis on biological determinism (Butler, 1994). According to Butler (1994), sexuality should not be differentiated from one another regardless of sexual differences or biological sexes to transform the two aspects into a proper object of study in different disciplines. In simple terminology, the author implied that gender and biological sex represent the appropriate objects of the feminist theory while sexuality and sexual practices are proper objects in gay and lesbian studies. The two forms of studies are conducted in juxtaposition as much as they are crucial for visibility. In her paper, Butler argued that it would be a mistake to claim radical separability between kinship relations to sexuality as equally explaining that the former governs the regulation of the later (1994).
Independent research on sexuality prevents the critical intervention of the feminist theory in sexual practices. Butler (1994) established an exceptional case stating that there are significant costs in choosing to argue between feminism and radical sexual theory on two different dimensions from a political perspective. The author recommends considering sexuality, gender, and sex from a richer analogy which provides a flexible theoretical distinction for lesbian, gay, and feminist research. Butler’s call suggests that feminism theory should critique gender hierarchy which might be incorporated into the radical theory of sex, which should subsequently enrich and challenge feminism (1994).
The primary pursuit of my Ph.D. thesis is to explore the black lesbian narratives of heterosexual violence in South Africa’s township. The expected outcome is that the research will expand the conceptual blueprint of race and ethnicity and its shift from the survivors of rape. The study will place the families of rape survivors at the center of the intersectionality analysis while focusing on class, gender, and race as factors that shape the narratives of the heterosexual rapes. The research will focus on aspects of both the feminist theory and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) studies. Noteworthy, the study will address the challenge that faces the contemporary feminist theory knowledge.
There are essential critiques on Northern feminism from feminists such as Susan Arndt and Bell Hooks. Arndt (2005) provided terminologies and frameworks that defined and differentiated African and Western feminism. African gender relations suffer significantly from aspects including religious fundamentalism, cultural imperialism, and socio-economic mechanisms of oppression. The author proceeds to explain that there an existing complexity of both traditional and modern structure that discriminate men and women. Conclusively, Arndt (2005) discusses that there is a distinct variation in the perception of homosexuality in both Africa and the Western nations.
 

Jacqueline Wilson has been a doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology, Rhodes University South Africa, since 2015. She holds an MSc in Development studies with a major in Gender studies from the University of Bergen Norway and Lund University Sweden. Miss Wilson has a BSc International Human Right Law major in Gender studies from Lund University. Additionally, while studying for an MSc, Miss Wilson was selected to represent on behalf of Lund University in Sweden BRIGHT LERU Young Scholars at the ‘Università di Milano
Miss Wilson was encouraged by Psychoanalytic theory; therefore, she studied a year Psychology at Karolinska University in Sweden. During her PhD research, Miss Wilson was awarded by the Soros Foundation fellowship at the Central European University in Budapest (January 2018- June 2018) Latter Miss Wilson extended the PhD fellowships at the University of Coimbra Portugal at the CES. (July- Nov 2018).Miss Wilson had presented her research at Leeds University in the UK which was funded by Law faculty, at the Gender studies conference. In 2017, she presented her paper at the Summer School at the University of Groningen
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Her PhD project looks at the anti-lesbian violence on black lesbians in the township of South Africa from intersectionality framework. Gender /sex to domination, cannot explain how sexual violence occurs in black communities and how it perpetuated against black lesbians gender and racial identity. Therefore, an intersectional perspective looking at structural violence that centres sexuality and race and historical positionality reveals the complex cultural and social dynamics that emerge in these contexts.

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