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Preface vii
Acknowledgements ix
Introduction: Basus'iimbokodo, bawel'imilambo, new freedoms and new challenges, a continuing dialogue Nomboniso Gasa xiii
Women in the pre-colonial and pre-Union periods
Chiefly women and women's leadership in pre-colonial southern Africa Jennifer Weir 3
'Like three tongues in one mouth': Tracing the elusive lives of slave women in (slavocratic) South Africa Pumla Dineo Gqola 21
Not a Nongqawuse story: An anti-heroine in historical perspective Helen Bradford 43
Women and gender in the South African War, 1899-1902 Elizabeth van Heyningen 91
Women in early to mid-twentieth century South Africa
'Let them build more gaols' Nomboniso Gasa 129
Testimonies and transitions: Women negotiating the rural and urban in the mid-20th century Luli Callinicos 153
Generations of struggle: Trade unions and the roots of feminism, 1930-60 Iris Berger 185
Feminisms, motherisms, patriarchies and women's voices in the 1950s Nomboniso Gasa 207
War: armed and mass struggles as gendered experiences
Women in the ANC-led underground Raymond Suttner 233
'Another mother for peace': Women and peace building in South Africa, 1983-2003 Jacklyn Cock 257
'We were not afraid': The role of women in the 1980s' township uprising in the Eastern Cape Janet Cherry 281
Women, labour and resistance: Case studies from the Port Elizabeth/Uitenhage area, 1972-94 Pat Gibbs 315
The 1990s and beyond: new identities, new victories, new struggles
Naked women's protest, July 1990: 'We won't fuck for houses' Sheila Meintjes 347
'Loving in a time of hopelessness': On township women's subjectivities in a time of HIV/AIDS Nthabiseng Motsemme 369
Invisible lives, inaudible voices? The social conditions of migrant women in Johannesburg Caroline Wanjiku Kihato 397
Ambiguity is my middle name: A research diary Yvette Abrahams 421
Contributors 453
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Aleksei Limos
reviewed Women in South African History: Basus'iimbokodo, Bawel'imilambo - They Remove Boulders and Cross Rivers on January 05, 2014 Women in South African History: Basus'iimbokodo, Bawel'imilambo - They Remove Boulders and Cross Rivers
This is the third book I've read by Blackmarr. The books form sort of a trilogy centered around three remote houses/cabins in which she lived during a period of her life in which she begins to focus on her writing. In her first book, Going to Ground, Blackmarr leaves the Midwest and moves back to Southern Georgia where she moves into her grandfather's old fishing shack while she gets her life back together. In the second book, House of Steps, she returns to Kansas to work on a PhD. Now, she's back in Georgia to recover after having failed her oral comprehensive exams. She settles into a small cabin owned by her uncle in the Georgia Mountains. Throughout each book, there are hauntings of ex-boyfriends and ex-husbands. Blackmarr seems to find her best companionship with her dogs, whom she loves and captures their personality in her writing. But even with our four-legged friends, there can be loss as they die. Although I did find a "woe-is-me" element in this book, I appreciate the way she is able to enjoy and find hope in her natural surroundings. Having hiked through North Georgia along the Appalachian Trail (which ran just west of her cabin), her descriptions of the land and the people rang true. She speaks of chesterdrawers, boiled peanuts, and spontaneous generosity and I nodded my head in agreement. I enjoyed reading the book and was relieved at the end to learn that on her second try, she did pass her exams and, I suppose, is now Dr. Blackmarr. I am not sure what has happened to her. It appears she has written only one more book that deals with ghosts in the Georgia gold-mining town of Dahlonega (not far from this cabin). That book was published nearly a decade ago and I haven't found any other books or articles published by her (at least under this name).
Favorite quote (and a candidate for the sentence with the most use of colons in the modern world): "So you can keep this truth in your mind: that wherever you go, and whatever you're up to, there are two things that never die no matter what you believe, and no matter what the weather: there is all this kudzu down here in Georgia, and there is love. (130)
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