Young Women Against Apartheid - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Young Women Against Apartheid write by Emily Bridger. This book was released on 2021. Young Women Against Apartheid available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Provides a new perspective on the struggle against apartheid, and contributes to key debates in South African history, gender inequality, sexual violence, and the legacies of the liberation struggle.
We Are Not Such Things
We Are Not Such Things - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook We Are Not Such Things write by Justine van der Leun. This book was released on 2016-06-28. We Are Not Such Things available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Justine van der Leun reopens the murder of a young American woman in South Africa, an iconic case that calls into question our understanding of truth and reconciliation, loyalty, justice, race, and class—a gripping investigation in the vein of the podcast Serial “Timely . . . gripping, explosive . . . the kind of obsessive forensic investigation—of the clues, and into the soul of society—that is the legacy of highbrow sleuths from Truman Capote to Janet Malcolm.”—The New York Times Book Review The story of Amy Biehl is well known in South Africa: The twenty-six-year-old white American Fulbright scholar was brutally murdered on August 25, 1993, during the final, fiery days of apartheid by a mob of young black men in a township outside Cape Town. Her parents’ forgiveness of two of her killers became a symbol of the Truth and Reconciliation process in South Africa. Justine van der Leun decided to introduce the story to an American audience. But as she delved into the case, the prevailing narrative started to unravel. Why didn’t the eyewitness reports agree on who killed Amy Biehl? Were the men convicted of the murder actually responsible for her death? And then van der Leun stumbled upon another brutal crime committed on the same day, in the very same area. The true story of Amy Biehl’s death, it turned out, was not only a story of forgiveness but a reflection of the complicated history of a troubled country. We Are Not Such Things is the result of van der Leun’s four-year investigation into this strange, knotted tale of injustice, violence, and compassion. The bizarre twists and turns of this case and its aftermath—and the story that emerges of what happened on that fateful day in 1993 and in the decades that followed—come together in an unsparing account of life in South Africa today. Van der Leun immerses herself in the lives of her subjects and paints a stark, moving portrait of a township and its residents. We come to understand that the issues at the heart of her investigation are universal in scope and powerful in resonance. We Are Not Such Things reveals how reconciliation is impossible without an acknowledgment of the past, a lesson as relevant to America today as to a South Africa still struggling with the long shadow of its history. “A masterpiece of reported nonfiction . . . Justine van der Leun’s account of a South African murder is destined to be a classic.”—Newsday
Women's Voices and Historical Silences in South Africa
Women's Voices and Historical Silences in South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women's Voices and Historical Silences in South Africa write by Rachel E. Johnson. This book was released on 2024-01-09. Women's Voices and Historical Silences in South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Women, Activism and Apartheid South Africa
Women, Activism and Apartheid South Africa - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Women, Activism and Apartheid South Africa write by Bev Orton. This book was released on 2018-10-05. Women, Activism and Apartheid South Africa available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book investigates women’s political activism and conflict in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa, using play texts, alongside interviews with female playwrights and women who worked within the theatre, to examine issues around domestic violence, racial abuse and women in detention without trial.
A World of Their Own
A World of Their Own - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A World of Their Own write by Meghan Healy-Clancy. This book was released on 2014-06-19. A World of Their Own available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The politics of black education has long been a key issue in southern African studies, but despite rich debates on the racial and class dimensions of schooling, historians have neglected their distinctive gendered dynamics. A World of Their Own is the first book to explore the meanings of black women’s education in the making of modern South Africa. Its lens is a social history of the first high school for black South African women, Inanda Seminary, from its 1869 founding outside of Durban through the recent past. Employing diverse archival and oral historical sources, Meghan Healy-Clancy reveals how educated black South African women developed a tradition of social leadership, by both working within and pushing at the boundaries of state power. She demonstrates that although colonial and apartheid governance marginalized women politically, it also valorized the social contributions of small cohorts of educated black women. This made space for growing numbers of black women to pursue careers as teachers and health workers over the course of the twentieth century. After the student uprisings of 1976, as young black men increasingly rejected formal education for exile and street politics, young black women increasingly stayed in school and cultivated an alternative form of student politics. Inanda Seminary students’ experiences vividly show how their academic achievements challenged the narrow conceptions of black women’s social roles harbored by both officials and black male activists. By the transition to democracy in the early 1990s, black women outnumbered black men at every level of education—introducing both new opportunities for women and gendered conflicts that remain acute today.
