African Women and Apartheid: Migration and Settlement in Urban South Africa - Couverture souple

Lee, Dr Rebekah

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1784537853 ISBN 13 : 9781784537852

Editeur : I.B. Tauris, 2017

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

Rebekah Lee's work makes a major contribution to South African urban history, sociology and anthropology. It is a unique and sustained analysis of the experiences of African women of Cape Town. Her research techniques are particularly innovative and revealing. --Professor William Beinart, African Studies Centre, University of Oxford

This book offers an extraordinarily rich contribution to the historiography of African urban life in South Africa and the importance of women's creation of a home to that process. It fills a gap in urban scholarship in South Africa since the mid-1950s, extending its scope to the post-apartheid era, and complements past scholarship on women's role in public resistance and defiance by showcasing the importance of women's everyday concerns with domestic economies. This is wonderful work, presented with lots of details, and revealing many insights because of its fresh combination of historiography and ethnography. African Women and Apartheid will find eager readers among historians and anthropologists with interests in South Africa, urban studies and gender. --Profess Karen Tranberg Hansen, Northwestern University

Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: I.B. Tauris
• Date d'édition: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1784537853
• ISBN 13: 9781784537852
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 296