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Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy, and Migrancy in South Africa, 1900-1983
Contributor(s): Bozzoli, Belinda (Author), Nkotsoe, Mmantho (Author)

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 ISBN: 0435080563     ISBN-13: 9780435080563
Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
OUR PRICE: $38.67  

Binding Type: Paperback
Published: November 1991
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Annotation: This evocative book tells of the lives and experiences of 22 black South African women - all born in the 1900s - from one small town in the Western Transvaal. The women seem both ordinary and remarkable as we follow their lives through childhood and schooling, work in the city, marriage and family life, participation in urban resistance, and ultimate return to Phokeng by the 1980s. This book's originality and power lies in the central place it gives to the oral histories on which it is based. This richly textured study gives us a uniquely qualitative insight into the lives and world views of black South African women.
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BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Women's Studies
Dewey: 305.409
LCCN: 91-9326
Age Level: 18-UP
Grade Level: 13-UP
Physical Information: 0.65" H x 6.02" W x 9.02" L (0.91 lbs) 292 pages
 
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This evocative book tells of the lives and experiences of 22 black South African womenall born in the 1900sfrom one small town in the Western Transvaal. The women seem both ordinary and remarkable as we follow their lives through childhood and schooling, work in the city, marriage and family life, participation in urban resistance, and ultimate return to Phokeng by the 1980s.

This book's originality and power lies in the central place it gives to the oral histories on which it is based. This richly textured study gives us a uniquely qualitative insight into the lives and world views of black South African women.


Contributor Bio(s): Bozzoli, Belinda: - Belinda Bozzoli is Professor of Sociology at the University of Witwatersrand. She is the author of The Political Nature of a Ruling Class: Capital and Ideology in South Africa, 1890-1933 (London, 1981). she has also edited three History Workshop collections and is coeditor of "History from South Africa" for Radical History Review.
 
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