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| Title: | Gender, Social Location and Feminist Politics in South Africa |
| Author: | Hassim, Shireen |
| Year: | 1991 |
| Periodical: | Transformation: Critical Perspectives on Southern Africa |
| Issue: | 15 |
| Pages: | 65-82 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | politics women Women's Issues History and Exploration Politics and Government Equality and Liberation organizations Sex Roles |
| External link: | https://d.lib.msu.edu/tran/145/OBJ/download |
| Abstract: | Opposition politics during the 1980s in South Africa has been dominated by organizations whose major objective has been to mobilize women for the national liberation struggle as opposed to mobilizing them for women's liberation. In many ways, the author argues, this mobilization process has the effect of reinforcing rather than challenging patriarchal relations of domination. Since the unbanning of the ANC, the South African Communist Party (SACP) and the PAC in February 1990, debates about women and politics have taken on a new dimension. It has finally become possible to extend the debate beyond whether feminism has any relevance to South African women's struggles, to what the shape of an indigenous feminism might be. This paper is concerned with this issue, suggesting a conceptualization of women's politics in South Africa which starts from the relationship between women's social location and their political identity. It also raises some key questions about the necessity and possibilities for a feminist core within the women's movement. Sections: triple oppression and nationalist politics - towards a gendered politics - politicizing the private - irreconcilable differences? - women and the State. Bibliogr., notes, ref. |
