African women and apartheid : migration and settlement in urban South Africa
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African women and apartheid : migration and settlement in urban South Africa
I.B. Tauris, 2017, c2009
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-271) and index
"paperback edition published in 2017 by I.B. Tauris. Hardback edition first published in 2009 by Tauris Academic Studies"--T.p. verso
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction: Location, Method, Meaning
Chapter One: Mapping Cape Town's Historical and Political Geography, 1948-2000
Chapter Two: Structure and Agency in African Households
Chapter Three: Home Improvement, Self Improvement: Renovations and the Reconstruction of 'Home'
Chapter Four: Hearth and Home: Energy Resourcing and Consumption in an Urban Environment
Chapter Five: Beloved Unions?: Associational Life in Town
Chapter Six: 'Moving' Memories, Urbanising Identities
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