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Tuesday, July 24, 2007

Representation & reality: portraits of women's lives in the Western Cape 1948-1976

Women's role in South Africa's political history

By: Scanlon H
Published by: Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC), 2007
Via: Eldis

Apartheid’s most fierce attack on the lives of African women was conducted in the Western Cape. This book presents an unusual and regional perspective on the political history of South African women during the period 1948 to 1976.

By drawing on personal narratives, the author examines how social and political processes shaped the lives of women from all political inclinations, and in turn, how these women shaped the organisations and movements that they belonged to. This book provides a nuanced insight into how issues of identity, race, class and culture intersected with politics in their lives.

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