Masculinities, militarisation and the End Conscription Campaign : war resistance in apartheid South Africa /
Conway, Daniel,1977-
Manchester : Manchester University Press,
2012.
This title explores the gendered dynamics of apartheid-era South Africa's militarisation and the analyses the defiance of compulsory military service by individual white men, and the anti-apartheid activism of the white men and women in the ECC, the most significant white anti-apartheid movement to happen in South Africa.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [154]-171) and index.
1. Soldiers, citizens and strangers -- 2. The militarisation of South Africa and the growth of war resistance -- 3. Performing citizenship, engendering consent: constructing militarised masculinities and citizenship in South Africa -- 4. 'Going the right way': contesting conscription -- 5. Breaking away: the End Conscription Campaign -- 6. 'Every coward's choice'?: responses to war resistance.
This title explores the gendered dynamics of apartheid-era South Africa's militarisation and the analyses the defiance of compulsory military service by individual white men, and the anti-apartheid activism of the white men and women in the ECC, the most significant white anti-apartheid movement to happen in South Africa.
End Conscription Campaign (South Africa)
Anti-apartheid movements
Draft resisters
Sociology, Military
Masculinity