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| Title: | You strike for a woman, you strike a rock!: paradox in worker performances and women's rights |
| Author: | Maree, Gert |
| Year: | 2003 |
| Periodical: | Anthropology Southern Africa |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Issue: | 3-4 |
| Pages: | 150-158 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | women's rights women theatre |
| Abstract: | The Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, Act 108 of 1996 entrenches women's rights to equality, but the battle against the oppression of women in the country is far from over. To bring about greater acceptance of the concept of women's rights and to achieve material equality, a call has been made for women to change their limiting definitions of womanhood and women's rights. Although the call is insensitive to the many issues that impact on women's lives, it does raise questions of how enervating definitions of womanhood and women's rights were reproduced, and why they persist despite the change to a democratic political dispensation and the promulgation of laws designed to address discrimination against women. This article provides some answers to these questions on the basis of research undertaken between September 1990 and June 1993 on the sociocultural meaning of songs, poems and plays in the transformation process in the greater Johannesburg area. It focuses specifically on the play 'Women stand up for your rights' that was performed from 1988 to 1993 in the context of union and political meetings in the area. The play was intended to sensitize and mobilize women around the issue of women's rights, and it revealed various discriminatory issues that are still relevant in contemporary South Africa. Bibliogr., note, sum. [Journal abstract] |
