Overview
- Illuminates African women’s contributions to transport, housing, and other subsistence issues
- Positions women within the broader framework of comparative Black history
- Shows how African women proffered resolutions for a better South African society
Part of the book series: African Histories and Modernities (AHAM)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (9 chapters)
-
Front Matter
-
Back Matter
Keywords
About this book
This book, which examines the role of African women in the conversation on nationalism during South Africa’s era of segregation, excavates female voices and brings them to the provocative fore. From 1910 to 1948, African women contributed to political thought as editorialists, club organizers, poets, leaders, and activists who dared to challenge the country’s segregationist regime at a time when it was bent on consolidating White power. Daughters of Africa founder Cecilia Lillian Tshabalala and National Council of African Women President Mina Tembeka Soga feature in this work, which employs the artistic theory of “sampling” and decoloniality to highlight and showcase how these women and others among their cadre spoke truth to power through the fiery lines of their poetry, newspaper columns, thought-provoking speeches, organizational documents, personal testimonies, and musical compositions. It argues that these African women left behind a blueprint to grapple with and contest the political climate in which they lived under segregation, by highlighting the role and agency of African women intellectuals at Apartheid’s dawn.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Social Justice at Apartheid’s Dawn
Book Subtitle: African Women Intellectuals and the Quest to Save the Nation
Authors: Dawne Y. Curry
Series Title: African Histories and Modernities
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85404-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85403-4Published: 12 April 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-85406-5Published: 13 April 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-85404-1Published: 11 April 2022
Series ISSN: 2634-5773
Series E-ISSN: 2634-5781
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 278
Number of Illustrations: 13 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Sub-Saharan Africa, Social History, Women's Studies, African Culture