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Women and gender in southern Africa to 1945

Cherryl Walker 1990 © Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
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  • 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 AbbreviationLabelURL
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
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