(Un)thinking citizenship : feminist debates in contemporary South Africa

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Author:

Gouws, Amanda, 1959-

ISBN:

9780754638780

Publication Information:

Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate Pub., c2005.

Physical Description:

xii, 281 p. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Gender in a global/local world

Series Title:

Gender in a global/local world

Contents:

Constituting 'women' as citizens : ambiguities in the making of gendered political subjects in post-apartheid South Africa / Linzi Manicom -- Nationalism displaced : citizenship discourses in the transition / Shireen Hassim -- Shaping women's citizenship : contesting the boundaries of state and discourse / Amanda Gouws -- Masculinity, citizenship, and political objection to military service in apartheid South Africa / Daniel Conway -- Citizenship and the right to child care / Beth Goldblatt -- Towards enhanced citizenship and poverty eradication : a critique of grootboom from a gender perspective / Danwood Mzikenge Chirwa and Sibonile Khoza -- The impact of the HIV/AIDs epidemic on women's citizenship in South Africa / Anneke Meerkotter -- Gendered citizenship in South Africa : rights and beyond / Cheryl McEwan -- Merely mothers perpetuating patriarchy? : women's grassroots organizations in the Western Cape 1980 to 1990 / Gertrude Fester -- Escaping heteronormative bondage : sexuality in citizenship / Mikki van Zyl -- A phenomenology of rape : forging a new vocabulary for action / Louise du Toit.

Abstract:

"This volume takes the debate of citizenship in South Africa in a more theoretical and empirical direction while engaging with knowledge produced elsewhere in the world. As part of the Gender in a Local/Global World series, it investigates the making of gendered citizenship, institutionalization of gender politics, the state of gendered policy making, local citizenship, rights, the women's movement, gendered violence, as well as citizenship and the body."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Women's rights -- South Africa.

Women -- Government policy -- South Africa.

Women -- South Africa -- Social conditions.

Women -- Political activity -- South Africa.

Citizenship -- South Africa.

Feminist theory -- Political aspects.

Added Author:

Gouws, Amanda, 1959-

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0422/2004020044.html

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The study of citizenship in the context of South Africa implicitly challenges the rights-based democracy in South Africa, while literature regarding women and citizenship has greatly contributed to a new understanding of citizenship. Locally, many global processes are reproduced in the discourse of rights-claiming, issues of institutional representation, bodily integrity in the face of violence, and care in the face of a lack of care. This volume takes the debate of citizenship in South Africa in a more theoretical and empirical direction while engaging with knowledge produced elsewhere in the world. As part of the Gender in a Local/Global World series, it investigates the making of gendered citizenship, institutionalization of gender politics, the state of gendered policy making, local citizenship, rights, the women's movement, gendered violence, as well as citizenship and the body.