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Women in South African history : they remove boulders and cross rivers = basus'iimbokodo, bawel'imilambo / edited by Nomboniso Gasa.
Van Pelt Library HQ1800.5 .W48 2007 1 v. + CD-ROM
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--South Africa--History.
- Women.
- Historiography.
- History.
- South Africa--History.
- South Africa.
- Women--South Africa--Biography.
- Women--South Africa--Historiography.
- Women--Political activity--South Africa.
- Women--Political activity.
- South Africa--Historiography.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxxvii, 458 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
- 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- Cape Town : HSRC Press ; [Chicago] : Distributed in North America by Independent Publishers Group, 2007.
- System Details:
- System requirements for accompanying CD-ROM: Adobe Acrobat 7 (supplied).
- text file
- Summary:
- Accompanying CD-ROM contains the complete text of the printed volume.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Basus'iimbokodo, bawel'imilambo, new freedoms and new challenges, a continuing dialogue / Nomboniso Gasa xiii
- Part 1 Women in the pre-colonial and pre-Union periods
- Chapter 1 Chiefly women and women's leadership in pre-colonial southern Africa / Jennifer Weir 3
- Chapter 2 'Like three tongues in one mouth': Tracing the elusive lives of slave women in (slavocratic) South Africa / Pumla Dineo Gqola 21
- Chapter 3 Not a Nongqawuse story: An anti-heroine in historical perspective / Helen Bradford 43
- Chapter 4 Women and gender in the South African War, 1899-1902 / Elizabeth van Heyningen 91
- Part 2 Women in early to mid-twentieth century South Africa
- Chapter 5 'Let them build more gaols' / Nomboniso Gasa 129
- Chapter 6 Testimonies and transitions: Women negotiating the rural and urban in the mid-20th century / Luli Callinicos 153
- Chapter 7 Generations of struggle: Trade unions and the roots of feminism, 1930-60 / Iris Berger 185
- Chapter 8 Feminisms, motherisms, patriarchies and women's voices in the 1950s / Nomboniso Gasa 207
- Part 3 War: armed and mass struggles as gendered experiences
- Chapter 9 Women in the ANC-led underground / Raymond Suttner 233
- Chapter 10 'Another mother for peace': Women and peace building in South Africa, 1983-2003 / Jacklyn Cock 257
- Chapter 11 'We were not afraid': The role of women in the 1980s' township uprising in the Eastern Cape / Janet Cherry 281
- Chapter 12 Women, labour and resistance: Case studies from the Port Elizabeth/Uitenhage area, 1972-94 / Pat Gibbs 315
- Part 4 The 1990s and beyond: new identities, new victories, new struggles
- Chapter 13 Naked women's protest, July 1990: 'We won't fuck for houses' / Sheila Meintjes 347
- Chapter 14 'Loving in a time of hopelessness': On township women's subjectivities in a time of HIV/AIDS / Nthabiseng Motsemme 369
- Chapter 15 Invisible lives, inaudible voices? The social conditions of migrant women in Johannesburg / Caroline Wanjiku Kihato 397
- Chapter 16 Ambiguity is my middle name: A research diary / Yvette Abrahams 421.
- Notes:
- "A project of the South African Department of Arts & Culture and the Human Sciences Research Council."
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0796921741
- OCLC:
- 85769041
- Publisher Number:
- 99954261143
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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