On their own : women, urbanization, and the right to the city in South Africa / / Allison Goebel

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910461843003321
• Autore: Goebel Allison
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Montréal, Québec ; ; London, [England] ; ; Chicago, [Illinois] : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2015; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-7735-9758-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
• Collana: McGill-Queen's Studies in Urban Governance ; ; 3
• Disciplina: 305.40968
• Soggetti: Women, Black - South Africa - Pietermaritzburg; Urban women - South Africa - Pietermaritzburg; Urban black people - South Africa - Pietermaritzburg; Urban poor - South Africa - Pietermaritzburg; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- 1. Women, housing, and coming to the city -- 2. Housing, urban conditions, health, and well-being in the "new South Africa" -- 3. Assessing the state's response : housing polciy and femaly headed households -- 4. Rights, welfare, and citizenship -- 5. "I don't want any man in my life, I have no time for them" : love, gender relations, and the "crisis of masculinity" -- 6. Protest, governance, and the ballot box : gender, generation, and race -- 7. Conclusions : women and the right to the city.