African Women and Apartheid
Subtitle: Migration and Settlement in Urban South Africa (International Library of African Studies)
Publisher: Tauris Academic Studies
Published: December 22, 2009
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781845118198
Subjects: Biographies & Memoirs -- Specific Groups -- Women; History -- Africa -- South Africa; History -- Africa -- Southern Africa; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Discrimination & Racism; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Gender Studies; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Human Geography; Nonfiction -- Social Sciences -- Sociology -- Race Relations; Nonfiction -- Women's Studies -- History
Description: "In this compelling study, Rebekah Lee explores the process and consequences of settlement through the everyday lives and testimonies of three generations of African women in Cape Town during the apartheid (1948-94) and post-apartheid periods. How did African women experience apartheid? How did they create a sense of belonging in a city that actively denied and resisted their presence? Through detailed analyses of women's management of domestic economies, their participation in township social organizations, their home renovation priorities and patterns of energy use, this study evokes a larger history of gendered and generational struggles over identity, place and belonging. It provides a deeper and more nuanced understanding of African women in apartheid and post-apartheid society, and of urbanization in South Africa. Drawing together scholarship and new methodologies from anthropology, history, human geography and development studies, "African Women and Apartheid" will be valuable to anyone with interests in South Africa, gender, urbanization, the African family, oral history and memory."--Bloomsbury publishing.