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Title:Keeping the Fires Burning: Militarism and the Politics of Gender in South Africa
Author:Cock, JacklynISNI
Year:1989
Periodical:Review of African Political Economy
Volume:16
Issue:45-46
Pages:50-64
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:civil-military relations
women
Women's Issues
Military, Defense and Arms
Politics and Government
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/03056248908703825
Abstract:This article focuses on the connection between women and militarization in South Africa. It is a connection which is obscured by analyses which conceptualize war as a male affair and the military as a patriarchal institution from which women are excluded and by whom they are often victimized. White women contribute to the militarization of South African society in both material and ideological terms. At the same time a minority of white women are a source of resistance to the system of apartheid which militarism defends. The 'politics of gender', the power relations between men and women which are structured around opposing notions of 'masculinity' and 'femininity', shape both these processes of incorporation and challenge. Ref.
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