Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy, and Migrancy

Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy, and Migrancy in South Africa, 1900-1983 (Social History of Africa)

This evocative book tells of the lives and experiences of 22 black South African women - all born in the 1900s - from one small town in the Western Transvaal. The women seem both ordinary and remarkable as we follow their lives through childhood and schooling, work in the city, marriage and family life, participation in urban resistance, and ultimate return to Phokeng by the 1980s.

This book's originality and power lies in the central place it gives to the oral histories on which it is based. This richly textured study gives us a uniquely qualitative insight into the lives and world views of black South African women.
Country USA
Binding Paperback
EAN 9780435080563
ISBN 0435080563
Label Heinemann
Manufacturer Heinemann
NumberOfItems 1
NumberOfPages 292
PublicationDate 1991-11-18
Publisher Heinemann
ReleaseDate 1991-11-18
Studio Heinemann

Women of Phokeng: Consciousness, Life Strategy, and Migrancy in South Africa, 1900-1983 (Social History of Africa)