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04256aam a2200445 i 4500 001 48A4DD344EAA11EDAB62559A42ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221018010048 008 200603t20212021enkb b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 9781847012739 020 $a 1847012736 020 $a 1847012639 020 $a 9781847012630 035 $a (OCoLC)1156000898 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d YDXIT $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d IBI $d GSU $d XFF $d SILO 043 $a f-sa--- 050 4 $a DT1757 $b .B753 2021 082 04 $a 305.800968 $2 23 100 1 $a Bridger, Emily, $e author. 245 10 $a Young women against apartheid : $b gender, youth & South Africa's liberation struggle / $c Emily Bridger. 264 1 $a Suffolk ; $b James Currey, an imprint of Boydell & Brewer, $c 2021. 300 $a xiii, 250 pages : $b map ; $c 24 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-242) and index. 520 $a "While there have been many books on South Africa's liberation struggle during the 1980s and early 1990s, the story of the involvement of African girls and young women has been all but missing. This book tells their story, analysing what life was like for African girls under apartheid, why some chose to join the struggle, and how they navigated the benefits and pitfalls of political activism. These were women who, as teenagers and secondary school students, made an unconventional choice to join student organizations, engage in public protest, and take up arms against the state. They did so against their parents' wishes and in contravention of societal norms that confined girls to the home and made township streets dangerous places for female students. They participated in both non-violent and violent forms of political action, including attending marches and rallies, throwing stones or petrol bombs at police, and punishing suspected informers and other offenders, and even joining underground guerrilla armies. Thousands of these young women were eventually detained, interrogated, and tortured by the apartheid state. At the heart of this book lie the life histories of the female comrades themselves, who in interviews construct themselves as decisive actors in South Africa's liberation struggle. Primarily a work of oral history, this book is not only concerned with what female comrades did, but equally with how these women remember and narrate their time as activists: how they reconstruct their pasts; relate their personal experiences to collective histories of the struggle; and insert themselves into a historical narrative from which they have been excluded. Through exploring these women's memories, this book serves as an important corrective to South Africa's male-centric literature on violence, and provides a new gendered perspective on the wider histories of township politics, activism, and conflict."--Publisher's description. 505 00 $g Conclusion. $t The interview : reflecting on the struggle -- $t The school : becoming a female comrade -- $t The home : negotiating family, girlhood and politics -- $t The meeting : contesting gender and creating a movement -- $t The street : gendering collective action and political violence -- $t The prison cell : gender, trauma and resistance -- $t The interview : reflecting on the struggle -- $g Conclusion. 650 0 $a Women, Black $z South Africa $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Girls $z South Africa $x Social conditions. 650 0 $a Apartheid. 650 0 $a Anti-apartheid movements. 650 0 $a Women, Black $x Political activity $z South Africa. 650 7 $a Anti-apartheid movements. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00810310 650 7 $a Apartheid. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00811112 650 7 $a Girls $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00942908 650 7 $a Women, Black $x Political activity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01178930 650 7 $a Women, Black $x Social conditions. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01178934 651 7 $a South Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204616 776 08 $i Electronic version: $a Bridger, Emily. $t Young women against apartheid. $d Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : James Currey, and imprint of Boydell & Brewer, 2021 $z 9781800100558 $w (OCoLC)1226456124 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117020314.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=48A4DD344EAA11EDAB62559A42ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search