num_pages: 170
description: ..". remarkable... " -- ForeignAffairs..". illuminates the workings of institutionalizedracism through the correspondence of three South African women in the 1940s and'50s." -- Feminist Bookstore News"The history of aplace and time is made vivid by the combination of the rich personal record of theletters and the theoretically framed analytic discussion. The result is new insightinto the history of black education in South Africa, and a revealing study of thedynamics of women's relations under colonialism across the lines of race, age andpower." -- Susan Greenstein, The Women's Review ofBooks"A riveting and revealing book -- one in which few ofthe characters wear hats that are spotlessly white." -- Third WorldResources"This rich collection of letters deserves its ownreading, as do Shula Marks's bracketing essays. They are invaluable for clarifyingthe myriad ramifications that the letters raise for African women." --International Journal of African Historical Studies..".powerful and perceptive....speak s] eloquently to a Western audience that is poisedto deal with the political and personal lives of South African women in an intimateholistic fashion." -- Belles LettresThe roots of modernApartheid are exposed through the painful and revealing correspondence of three verydifferent South African women -- two black and one "liberal" white -- from1949 to 1951. Although the letters speak for themselves, the editor has written anintroduction and epilogue which tell of the tragic ending to this rivetingstory.
language: English
title: Not Either an Experimental Doll
titlecomplete: Not Either an Experimental Doll
genres: Nonfiction, History, South Africa, Read For School
ratings_count: 99
publisher: The Women's Press