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Title Women and gender in southern Africa to 1945 / edited by Cherryl Walker
Published Cape Town : D. Philip ; London : J. Currey, 1990

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Description 1 online resource (390 pages)
Contents Women and gender in southern Africa to 1945 : an overview / Cherryl Walker -- Gender oppression in southern Africa's precapitalist societies / Jeff Guy -- Fighting a two-pronged attack : the changing legal status of women in Cape-ruled Basutoland, 1872-1884 / Sandra Burman -- Domestic service and education for domesticity : the incorporation of Xhosa women into colonial society / Jacklyn Cock -- Maidens, maps and mines : King Soloman's mines and the reinvention of patriarchy in colonial South Africa / Anne McClintock -- Family and gender in the Christian community at Edendale, Natal, in colonial times / Sheila Meintjes -- Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 / Jo Beall -- Gender and the development of the migrant labour system c.1850-1930 / Cherryl Walker -- "Lighthouse for African womanhood" : Inanda Seminary, 1869-1945 / Heather Hughes -- "Desirable or undesirable Basotho women?" : liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945 / Phil Bonner -- Devout domesticity? a century of African women's Christianity in South Africa / Debbie Gaitskell -- Man-made women : gender, class and the ideology of the Volksmoeder / Elsabe Brink -- Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911-1934 / Linda Chisholm -- Women's suffrage movement : the politics of gender, race and class / Cherryl Walker
Analysis Black women History
South Africa
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 346-380) and index
Notes English
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Subject Women -- Africa, Southern -- History
Women, Black -- Africa, Southern -- History
Women -- Africa, Southern
Women, Black -- Africa, Southern
Women.
Women, Black.
Soziale Stellung
Frau
Southern Africa.
Südafrika
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
Author Walker, Cherryl
ISBN 0864860900
9780864860903
085255205X
9780852552056