Women Speak
A record of the setbacks and victories of South African women from early local community-level organisation in 1982 up to the challenges of living in the 1990s and being in government in the new South Africa. This book brings together the voices of a variety of women on some of the critical issues of the times: women organising in their own communities, in trade unions and in political organisations, violence against women and personal struggles regarding relationships, lobola, lesbianism and abortion. The final chapter focuses on women in negotiations and in government. The articles are all taken from the South African community magazineSpeak; and gives a sense of what concerned women most acutely during the 1980s and early 1990s. Through most recent interviews, conducted in 1996 and 1997, the debates are brought up to date.
Published: 1999
Pages: 168
Paperback: 9780855984168
| Forward | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Introduction | |||
| Chapter one: Women in Communities | |||
| From the Pages of SPEAK: Women organise in their local communities | |||
| Rural Women's Movement | |||
| Women and Political Violence in Communities | |||
| Struggles Today | |||
| Say No -Gcina Mhlope | |||
| The Dancer - Gcina Mhlope | |||
| Chapter two: Women Workers | |||
| From the Pages of SPEAK: Women at Work | |||
| Women on Strike | |||
| Domestic Workers | |||
| Workers are Parents Too! | |||
| Women in FOSATU and COSATU | |||
| Sruggles Today | |||
| Madam - Roseline Naapo | |||
| Chapter three: Fighting Violence against women | |||
| From the Pages of SPEAK | |||
| Struggles Today | |||
| You Can't Stop the Spirit | |||
| Chapter four: The personal is political | |||
| From the Pages of SPEAK | |||
| A Woman's Right to Choose | |||
| Women and Fear - Paulinah PhungwayoA Lady of Leisure - Ayesha Badat | |||
| Chapter five: Women in Political Resistance | |||
| From the Pages of SPEAK | |||
| Heroes of the Struggle | |||
| Today -Nise Malange | |||
| Chapter six: Women in negotiations, Government and Civil society | |||
| From the Pages of SPEAK: Women Make Their Voices Heard in the Negotiations | |||
| Women in the New South Africa | |||
| Struggles Today | |||
| Women of Africa - Sma Khubeka | |||
| Abbreviations. |
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