African women and apartheid : migration and settlement in urban South Africa /
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...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York : New York :
Tauris Academic Studies, an imprint of I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan,
2009.
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| Series: | International library of African studies ;
v. 25. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xiv, 282 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-271) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781441657343 1441657347 9780857710093 0857710095 6000018606 9786000018603 |
| DOI: | 10.5040/9780755618927 |