Profiles in diversity [electronic resource] : women in the new South Africa / Patricia W. Romero.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Romero, Patricia W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Women--South Africa--Social conditions.

Women.

Women--South Africa--Interviews.

Apartheid--South Africa.

Apartheid.

South Africa--Politics and government--20th century.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Place of Publication:

East Lansing, Mich : Michigan State University Press, c1998.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A revealing oral history collection, Profiles in Diversity contains in-depth interviews of twenty-six women in South Africa from different racial, class, and age backgrounds. Conducted in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Vryburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown, Durban, and a rural section of Kwa-Zulu Natal, these life histories encompass diverse experiences ranging from a squatter in a township outside Cape Town to an ANC activist in Port Elizabeth, who lost three sons to the struggle for democracy and who herself was imprisoned several times during what many in South Africa now

Contents:

pt. 1. Things have changed

pt. 2. The Afrikaners

pt. 3. The so-called Coloureds

pt. 4. The Jewish women

pt. 5. The African women

pt. 6. The English-speaking white women

pt. 7. The Indian women.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-62896-206-2

0-87013-948-7

OCLC:

654442713