Gender and the Making of a South African Bantustan: A Social History of the Ciskei, 1945-1958

by Mager, Anne Kelk

• ISBN13: 9780852556351
• ISBN10: 0852556357
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-01-01
• Publisher: James Currey

Summary

The author uses the prism of gender to displace the universal male subject of mainstream South African history, moving between the social space of families and the political space of the apartheid state. North America: Heinemann

Author Biography

Anne Kelk Mager is Lecturer in the History Department of the University of Cape Town.

Table of Contents

Illustrations	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xv
Glossary	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Mapping, Boundaries, and Contested Structures	p. 19
Defining the Border(s)	p. 21
Mapping "The Family": The Creation of Zwelitsha	p. 47
The People Get Fenced	p. 72
Patriarchs, Politics, and Ethnic Mapping	p. 98
Subjectivities, Gender Regimes, and Resistance	p. 125
Gendering Identities between Childhood and Adulthood	p. 127
Independent Women and Youth in the City of East London	p. 146
Sexuality, Fertility, and Male Power	p. 173
Educating an Elite: Gender Regimes and Resistance	p. 196
Conclusions	p. 219
Sources	p. 225
Index	p. 241
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