African Women and Apartheid: Migration and Settlement in Urban South Africa (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781845118198)

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.

Author: Rebekah Lee
ISBN-10: 1845118197
ISBN-13: 9781845118198
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 296
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.70w x 1.30d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2010