Women Of South Africa

Author : Peter Magubane
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
ISBN 13 : 9780821219348
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women of South Africa written by Peter Magubane and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A photographic look at the women of South Africa, from the inception of apartheid to the present, chronicles historical and quotidian events--including the 1956 march on Pretoria and a mother's grief over her son's needless death. Simultaneous.

Author : Shireen Hassim
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299213838
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Organizations and Democracy in South Africa written by Shireen Hassim and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2006-06-26 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The transition to democracy in South Africa was one of the defining events in twentieth-century political history. The South African women’s movement is one of the most celebrated on the African continent. Shireen Hassim examines interactions between the two as she explores the gendered nature of liberation and regime change. Her work reveals how women’s political organizations both shaped and were shaped by the broader democratic movement. Alternately asserting their political independence and giving precedence to the democratic movement as a whole, women activists proved flexible and remarkably successful in influencing policy. At the same time, their feminism was profoundly shaped by the context of democratic and nationalist ideologies. In reading the last twenty-five years of South African history through a feminist framework, Hassim offers fresh insights into the interactions between civil society, political parties, and the state. Hassim boldly confronts sensitive issues such as the tensions between autonomy and political dependency in feminists’ engagement with the African National Congress (ANC) and other democratic movements, and black-white relations within women’s organizations. She offers a historically informed discussion of the challenges facing feminist activists during a time of nationalist struggle and democratization. Winner, Victoria Schuck Award for best book on women and politics, American Political Science Association “An exceptional study, based on extensive research. . . . Highly recommended.”—Choice “A rich history of women’s organizations in South African . . . . [Hassim] had observed at first hand, and often participated in, much of what she described. She had access to the informants and private archives that so enliven the narrative and enrich the analysis. She provides a finely balanced assessment.”—Gretchen Bauer, African Studies Review

Author : Nomboniso Gasa
Publisher : HSRC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780796921741
Total Pages : 502 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in South African History written by Nomboniso Gasa and published by HSRC Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 502 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains the complete text of the printed volume.

Author : Margie Orford
Publisher : Juta and Company Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781770130432
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Life and Soul written by Margie Orford and published by Juta and Company Ltd. This book was released on 2006 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exquisite book by award-winning photographer Karina Turok presents a series of portraits of inspirational and iconic South African women

Author : Cherryl Walker
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864860903
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 written by Cherryl Walker and published by New Africa Books. This book was released on 1990 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Hannah Evelyn Britton
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women's Activism in South Africa written by Hannah Evelyn Britton and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Women's Activism in South Africa provides the most comprehensive collection of women's experiences within civil society since the 1994 transition. This book captures South African women's stories of collective activism and social change at a crucial point for the future of democracy in the country, if not the continent. Pulling together the voices of activists and scholars, South Africa's path to democracy and the assurance of gender rights emerge as a complex journey of both successes and challenges. The collection elucidates a new form of pragmatic feminism, building upon the elasticity between the state and civil society. What the cases demonstrate is that while the state itself may not be a panacea, it still represents a key source of power and the primary locus of vital resources, including the rights of citizenship, access to basic needs, and the promise of protection from gender-based violence - all central to women's particular needs in South Africa.

Author : Christi Van der Westhuizen
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 : 9781869143763
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sitting Pretty written by Christi Van der Westhuizen and published by University of Kwazulu Natal Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How have white Afrikaans-speaking women responded to the liberating possibilities of constitutional democracy? Have they re-imagined themselves in opposition to colonial ideas of race, gender, sexuality and class? Sitting Pretty explores this postapartheid identity through the concepts of ordentlikheid and the volksmoeder.

Author : Mary Hames
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in South Africa written by Mary Hames and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This national gender profile describes South Africa's progress and challenges in achieving women's empowerment and gender equality goals. It measures the South African government's achievements against its stated commitments both within its supreme legislation - the Constitution, its policies, the legislative framework it has put in place, as well as the international agreements it is party to. The publication also assesses the impact of the institutional mechanisms for women's advancement that South Africa has put in place since 1994. The approach in gathering information has been comprehensive. The review is based on statistical data taken from the National Statistical Services to indicate major social trends. It also draws from government departments' reports of programmes implemented since 1994, the outcome of provincial and national "Conversations among Women", which took place between July and August 2003; and the Office on the Status of Women (OSW) Audits (1998, 2002, and 2003) of systems in place to enable gender mainstreaming. Information from South Africa's reports on the implementation of the Beijing Platform For Action (BPFA) as well as the SADC Declaration on Gender and Development was used in compiling this national gender profile.

Author : Emily Bridger
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1847012639
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Young Women Against Apartheid written by Emily Bridger and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle.

Author : Cherryl Walker
Publisher : London : Onyx Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women and Resistance in South Africa written by Cherryl Walker and published by London : Onyx Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Treatise on the political participation of women from 1910 to the 1960s and the development of a women's organization within the context of a black national liberation movement in South Africa R - discusses historical aspects, and the growth of political opposition among women and formation of the Federation of South African Women; examines the social role and economic role of black and White women in a period of increasing racial conflict. Bibliography and photographs.