Women's activism in South Africa : working across divides

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Author:

Britton, Hannah Evelyn.

ISBN:

9781869141462

Publication Information:

Scottsville, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2009.

Physical Description:

vii, 294 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Engendering civil society in democratic South Africa / Hannah Britton and Jennifer Fish -- Citizenship, gender and civil society in South Africa / Denise Walsh -- Gender equality by design: the case of the commission on gender equality / Sheila Meintjes -- Women's sport as a site for challenging racial and gender inequalities in post-apartheid South Africa / Cynthia Fabrizio Pelak -- Organising from private spaces: domestic labour in South African civil society / Jennifer Fish -- Sexual violence, civil society and the new constitution / Helen Moffett -- Race, gender and feminist practice: lessons from rape crisis Cape Town / Benita Moolman -- Activating children's citizenship: the politics of the girl child in democratic South Africa / Christina Nomdo and Shaamela Cassiem -- Crafting spaces for women's voices: the case of refugee women in KwaZulu-Natal / Janine Hicks -- Transgressive African feminism: the possibilities of global organisation / M. Bahati Kuumba

Subject Term:

Women political activists -- South Africa.

Social change -- South Africa.

Feminism -- South Africa.

Democratization -- South Africa.

Added Author:

Britton, Hannah Evelyn.

Fish, Jennifer Natalie.

Meintjes, Sheila.

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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.