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| Title: | Claiming Spaces, Changing Places: Political Violence and Women's Protests in Kwazulu-Natal |
| Author: | Bonnin, Debby |
| Year: | 2000 |
| Periodical: | Journal of Southern African Studies |
| Volume: | 26 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Period: | June |
| Pages: | 301-316 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | political conflicts women Ethnic and Race Relations Women's Issues Peoples of Africa (Ethnic Groups) Politics and Government Law, Human Rights and Violence Cultural Roles nationalism Law, Legal Issues, and Human Rights Historical/Biographical |
| External link: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/2637496 |
| Abstract: | During 1985 and 1986, occasional incidents of political conflicts between the clandestinely ANC-aligned UDF and Inkatha were reported in Mpumalanga township, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. During 1987, the conflicts escalated into a full-scale war. This paper outlines ways in which women were involved in the violence and examines how these activities reconstructed their concepts of space, focusing on schools, streets and domestic space. The paper starts with an examination of how space was constructed in the township prior to the violence and goes on to examine how women, through protests of different kinds, challenged the way in which these spaces and their accompanying gendered power relations had been reconstructed by the violence. It also examines whether and how gender relations in the household have changed as a result of these processes. The conclusion is that the protests enabled women to connect with women from other areas and exposed them to previously unknown resources. It is, however, too early to speculate about the transformation of gender power relations in the household. Notes, ref., sum. |
