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Sitting Pretty - White Afrikaans Women in Postapartheid South Africa (Paperback) Loot Price: R337
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Sitting Pretty - White Afrikaans Women in Postapartheid South Africa (Paperback): Christi van der Westhuizen

Sitting Pretty - White Afrikaans Women in Postapartheid South Africa (Paperback)

Christi van der Westhuizen

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At the opening of South Africa's first democratic parliament in 1994, newly elected president Nelson Mandela issued a clarion call to an unlikely group: white Afrikaans women, who during apartheid occupied the ambivalent position of being both oppressor and oppressed. He conjured the memory of poet Ingrid Jonker as `both an Afrikaner and an African' who `instructs that our endeavours must be about the liberation of the woman, the emancipation of the man and the liberty of the child'. More than two decades later, the question is: how have white Afrikaans-speaking women responded to the liberating possibilities of constitutional democracy?

With Afrikaner nationalism in disrepair, and official apartheid in demise, have they re-imagined themselves in opposition to colonial ideas of race, gender, sexuality and class?

Sitting Pretty explores this postapartheid identity through the concepts of ordentlikheid, as an ethnic form of respectability, and the volksmoeder, or mother of the nation, as enduring icon. Issues of intersectionality, space, emotion and masculinity are also investigated.

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Imprint: University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
Country of origin: South Africa
Release date: November 2017
Authors: Christi van der Westhuizen
Dimensions: 230 x 150 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 978-1-86914-376-3
Categories: Books > Humanities > History > African history > General
Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political control & freedoms > General
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Gender studies > Women's studies > General
Books > History > African history > General
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LSN: 1-86914-376-0
Barcode: 9781869143763

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