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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781438203321

Autore

Romero Patricia W

Titolo

Profiles in diversity [[electronic resource] ] : women in the new South Africa / / Patricia W. Romero

Pubbl/distr/stampa

East Lansing, Mich, : Michigan State University Press, c1998

ISBN

1-62896-206-2

0-87013-948-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (242 p.)

Disciplina

305.42/0968

Soggetti

Women - South Africa - Social conditions

Women - South Africa

Apartheid - South Africa

South Africa Politics and government 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Things have changed -- pt. 2. The Afrikaners -- pt. 3. The so-called Coloureds -- pt. 4. The Jewish women -- pt. 5. The African women -- pt. 6. The English-speaking white women -- pt. 7. The Indian women.

Sommario/riassunto

A revealing oral history collection, Profiles in Diversity contains in-depth interviews of twenty-six women in South Africa from different racial, class, and age backgrounds. Conducted in Johannesburg, Pretoria, Bloemfontein, Vryburg, Cape Town, Port Elizabeth, Grahamstown, Durban, and a rural section of Kwa-Zulu Natal, these life histories encompass diverse experiences ranging from a squatter in a township outside Cape Town to an ANC activist in Port Elizabeth, who lost three sons to the struggle for democracy and who herself was imprisoned several times during what many in South Africa now