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Author : Margaret Lessing
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book South African Women Today written by Margaret Lessing and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mary Hames
Publisher : Southern African Research and Documentation Centre
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Women in South Africa written by Mary Hames and published by Southern African Research and Documentation Centre. This book was released on 2006 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comprises a national gender profile describing progress in achieving women's empowerment and gender equality goals between 1994 and 2004. Measures government's achievements against its stated commitments and assesses the impact of the institutional mechanism for women's advancement.
Author : Shireen Hassim
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
ISBN 13 : 0299213838
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (992 download)
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 : Cherryl Walker
Publisher : London : Onyx Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
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 336 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.
Author : Hilary Reynolds
Publisher : NB Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Woman Today written by Hilary Reynolds and published by NB Publishing. This book was released on 2003 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On June 28th, 1952, the first edition of a programme especially for women was broadcast on the SABC. It was called 'Woman's World'. These were the days when the presenter would wear a hat and gloves to go down to the Union Castle mail ships to scoop her story.
Author : June Goodwin
Publisher : Holmes & Meier Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book Cry Amandla! written by June Goodwin and published by Holmes & Meier Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meghan Healy-Clancy
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813936098
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book A World of Their Own written by Meghan Healy-Clancy and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-06-19 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The politics of black education has long been a key issue in southern African studies, but despite rich debates on the racial and class dimensions of schooling, historians have neglected their distinctive gendered dynamics. A World of Their Own is the first book to explore the meanings of black women’s education in the making of modern South Africa. Its lens is a social history of the first high school for black South African women, Inanda Seminary, from its 1869 founding outside of Durban through the recent past. Employing diverse archival and oral historical sources, Meghan Healy-Clancy reveals how educated black South African women developed a tradition of social leadership, by both working within and pushing at the boundaries of state power. She demonstrates that although colonial and apartheid governance marginalized women politically, it also valorized the social contributions of small cohorts of educated black women. This made space for growing numbers of black women to pursue careers as teachers and health workers over the course of the twentieth century. After the student uprisings of 1976, as young black men increasingly rejected formal education for exile and street politics, young black women increasingly stayed in school and cultivated an alternative form of student politics. Inanda Seminary students’ experiences vividly show how their academic achievements challenged the narrow conceptions of black women’s social roles harbored by both officials and black male activists. By the transition to democracy in the early 1990s, black women outnumbered black men at every level of education—introducing both new opportunities for women and gendered conflicts that remain acute today.
Author : Jane S. Jaquette
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801858383
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (583 download)
Download or read book Women and Democracy written by Jane S. Jaquette and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1998-10-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique look at the political experiences of women in two regions of the world--Latin American and Eastern and Central Europe--which have moved from authoritarian to democratic regimes. By examining various political attitudes and efforts of women as they learn to participate in the political process, contributors offer important new insights into democratic consolidation.
Author : Harold Jack Simons
Publisher : Evanston [Ill.] : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book African Women written by Harold Jack Simons and published by Evanston [Ill.] : Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1968 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nomboniso Gasa
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 500 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Women in South African History written by Nomboniso Gasa and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 500 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accompanying CD-ROM contains the complete text of the printed volume.
Author : Hannah Britton
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252090616
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Women in the South African Parliament written by Hannah Britton and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the international press closely chronicled the dismantling of South Africa's apartheid policies, it paid little attention to the unique role women from a variety of political parties played in establishing the new government. Utilizing interviews, participant observation, and archival research, Women in the South African Parliament tells an inspiring story of liberation, showing how these women achieved electoral success, learned to work with lifelong enemies, and began to transform Parliament by creating more space for women's voices during a critical time in the life of their democracy. Arguing from her detailed analysis of the strategies and political tactics used by these South African women, both individually and collectively, Hannah Britton contends that, contrary claims in earlier studies of the developing world, mobilization by women prior to a transition to democracy can lead to gains after the transition--including improvements in constitutional mandates, party politics, and representation. At the same time, Britton demonstrates that not even national leadership can ensure power for all women and that many who were elected to South Africa's first democratic parliament declined to run again, feeling they could have a greater impact working in their own communities.
Author : Cherryl Walker
Publisher : New Africa Books
ISBN 13 : 9780864860903
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (69 download)
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 : Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900449247X
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (44 download)
Download or read book Hear Our Voices written by Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book has a twofold goal: first, the contributors aim to expose the racist and sexist practices that still suffuse the instutitional culture of South-African universities. Secondly, they seek to apply the alternative theoretical and methodological frameworks of black feminist thought. However particular their individual stories, this books offers rich material of interest to women scholars everywhere.
Author : Wunyabari O. Maloba
Publisher : Africa Research and Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book African Women in Revolution written by Wunyabari O. Maloba and published by Africa Research and Publications. This book was released on 2007 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extrait de la couverture : " The revolutionary movements covered in this book occurred in: Algeria, Kenya, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola, Zimbabwe, and South Africa. The book describes and analyzes the nature and impact of women's participation in these revolutionary movements. How did these revolutionary movements define women's liberation? What is the linkage between feminist theories of liberation and national liberation? Did the national liberation movements betray women? And what has been the fate of the original commitments (and impulses) toward women's liberation and gender equality?"
Author : Anna Aulette-Root
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253010705
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)
Download or read book South African Women Living with HIV written by Anna Aulette-Root and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-13 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on interviews with women who are HIV positive, this sobering pandemic brings to light the deeply rooted and complex problems of living with HIV. Already pushed to the edges of society by poverty, racial politics, and gender injustice, women with HIV in South Africa have found ways to cope with work and men, disclosure of their HIV status, and care for families and children to create a sense of normalcy in their lives. As women take control of their treatment, they help to determine effective routes to ending the spread of the disease.
Author : Hannah Evelyn Britton
Publisher : University of Kwazulu Natal Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
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 : Kate Grantham
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000340341
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)
Download or read book Women's Economic Empowerment written by Kate Grantham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-03-04 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates the barriers to women’s economic empowerment in the Global South. Drawing on evidence from a wide range of countries, the book outlines important lessons and practical solutions for promoting gender equality. Despite global progress in closing gender gaps in education and health, women’s economic empowerment has lagged behind, with little evidence that economic growth promotes gender equality. International Development Research Centre’s (IDRC) Growth and Economic Opportunities for Women (GrOW) programme was set up to provide policy lessons, insights, and concrete solutions that could lead to advances in gender equality, particularly on the role of institutions and macroeconomic growth, barriers to labour market access for women, and the impact of women’s care responsibilities. This book showcases rigorous and multi-disciplinary research emerging from this ground-breaking programme, covering topics such as the school-to-work transition, child marriage, unpaid domestic work and childcare, labour market segregation, and the power of social and cultural norms that prevent women from fully participating in better paid sectors of the economy. With a range of rich case studies from Burkina Faso, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, Ghana, India, Kenya, Nepal, Rwanda, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and Uganda, this book is perfect for students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers working on women’s economic empowerment and gender equality in the Global South.
