Title: Bearing Witness
First published: December 20, 2002
Description: Fiona Ross's fascinating study of the process of bearing witness is the first to examine the gendered dimensions of this topic from an anthropological and ethnographic viewpoint. Following the work of the Truth and reconciliation commission in South Africa, she explores how its emphasis on apartheid's spectacular dimensions had the effect of silencing and eliding women's political activities and their efforts to create social worlds in conditions of terrible constraint, framing women as victims instead. The book offers a subtle understanding of the achievements and limitations of testimony and human rights discourse as measures of suffering and recovery.
Subjects: Différences entre sexes, Women social reformers, Oral communication, Femmes activistes, Social perception, Mensenrechten, Crimes contre les Femmes, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Social aspects, Cultural, Anthropology, Frau, Sex differences, Women, Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Gewalt, Apartheid, Aspect social, Crimes against, Social Services & Welfare, Vrouwen, Getuigen, POLITICAL SCIENCE, Public Policy, History, Human rights, Droits de l'homme (Droit international), Social Security, Zeuge, Südafrika <Staat> / Wahrheits- und Versöhnungkommission, Perception sociale, Histoire, South Africa, Communication orale, South Africa. Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Women, crimes against, Women political activists, Women social activists