Women and gender in southern Africa to 1945

Walker, Cherryl

Women and gender in southern Africa to 1945

Cherryl Walker 1990 © Boydell & Brewer Ltd.

ISBN(s)

9780852552049 (paper)
9780852552056 (hardcover)

Subject

Women's Studies

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Frontmatter
List of contributors (page vii)
Preface (page ix)
Women and gender in southern Africa to 1945: An overview (Cherryl Walker, page 1)
1 Gender oppression in southern Africa's precapitalist societies (Jeff Guy, page 33)
2 Fighting a two-pronged attack: The changing legal status of women in Cape‐ruled Basutoland, 1872‒1884 (Sandra Burman, page 48)
3 Domestic service and education for domesticity: The incorporation of Xhosa women into colonial society (Jacklyn Cock, page 76)
4 Maidens, maps and mines: King Solomon's Mines and the reinvention of patriarchy in colonial South Africa (Anne McClintock, page 97)
5 Family and gender in the Christian community at Edendale, Natal, in colonial times (Sheila Meintjes, page 125)
6 Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860‒1911 (Jo Beall, page 146)
7 Gender and the development of the migrant labour system c. 1850‒1930 (Cherryl Walker, page 168)
8 'A lighthouse for African womanhood': Inanda Seminary, 1869‒1945 (Heather Hughes, page 197)
9 'Desirable or undesirable Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Bosotho women to the Rand, 1920‒1945 (Phil Bonner, page 221)
10 Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa (Debbie Gaitskell, page 251)
11 Man‐made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder (Elsabe Brink, page 273)
12 Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911‒1934 (Linda Chisholm, page 293)
13 The women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender, race and class (Cherryl Walker, page 313)
Notes and References (page 346)
Index (Judith Shier, page 381)

Reviews
Journal Abbreviation	Label	URL
JSAS	17.1 (Mar. 1991): 165-170	http://www.jstor.org/stable/2637291
AFRI	64.3 (1994): 443-444	http://www.jstor.org/stable/1160807
AAF	91.363 (Apr. 1992): 313-315	http://www.jstor.org/stable/723158
JAFH	34.3 (1993): 528-529	http://www.jstor.org/stable/183126
IJAHS	24.3 (1991): 655-657	http://www.jstor.org/stable/219112
SIG	18.3 (Spring, 1993): 708-711	http://www.jstor.org/stable/3174870

Women and gender in southern Africa to 1945

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