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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lee, Rebekah, 1974-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : New York : Tauris Academic Studies, an imprint of I.B. Tauris ; Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
Series:International library of African studies ; v. 25.
Subjects:
Apartheid > South Africa.
Women > South Africa > Social conditions > 20th century.
Apartheid > Afrique du Sud.
Femmes > Afrique du Sud > Conditions sociales > 20e siècle.
Migration, immigration & emigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
Apartheid
Women > Social conditions
South Africa
Stadt
Haushalt
Kapstadt
Frau
Südafrika <Staat>
1900-1999
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Mapping Cape Town's historical and political geography, 1948-2000
  • Structure and strategy in African households
  • Home improvement, self improvement: renovations and the reconstruction of 'home'
  • Hearth and home: energy resourcing and consumption in an urban environment
  • 'Beloved' unions? Associational life in town
  • 'Moving' memories: urbanizing identities.