Title Rights and responsibilities in rural South Africa : gender, personhood, and the crisis of meaning / Kathleen Rice

Published Bloomington, Indiana : Indiana University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 183 pages) : color illustrations Contents The Lodge and the NGO -- Rights and Responsibilities -- Social Grants and the Moral Bureaucracy of Merit -- Working Women, Wives, and Rural Feminine Personhood -- The Moral Ambiguity of Ukuthwala -- Conclusion: Rights and Responsibilities Revisited Summary "Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa examines the gendered and generational conflicts surrounding social change in South Africa's rural Eastern Cape roughly twenty years after the end of Apartheid. In post-Aparatheid South Africa, rights-based public discourse and state practices promote liberal, autonomous, and egalitarian notions of personhood, yet widespread unemployment and poverty demand that people rely closely on one another and forge relationships that disrupt the gendered and generational hierarchies framed as traditional and culturally authentic. Kathleen Rice examines the ways these tensions and restructurings lead to uncertainties about how South Africans should live together in their daily lives, with particular implications for understanding and responding to widespread gendered and sexual conflict and violence. Focusing particularly on the women of the village of Mhlambini, Rights and Responsibilities in Rural South Africa offers compelling portraits of how they experience and navigate widespread social and economic change and presents their experiences as a way of understanding how people navigate the moral ambiguities of contemporary South African life"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 16, 2023) Subject Social change -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Women -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape -- Social conditions Human rights -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Sex role -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Intergenerational relations -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape Interpersonal relations -- South Africa -- Eastern Cape SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / African Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social. Human rights Intergenerational relations Interpersonal relations Sex role Social change Women -- Social conditions South Africa -- Eastern Cape Form Electronic book LC no. 2023011246 ISBN 9780253066190 0253066190 0253066182 9780253066183

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