The Anc Women'S League: Sex, Gender And Politics (Ohio Short Histories Of Africa)

First formed in the early twentieth century, the ANC Women's League has grown into a leading organization in the women's movement in South Africa. The league has been at the forefront of the nation's century-long transition from an authoritarian state to a democracy that espouses gender equality as a core constitutional value. It has, indeed, always regarded itself as the women's movement, frequently asserting its primacy as a vanguard organization and as the only legitimate voice of the women of South Africa. But, as this deeply insightful book shows, the history of the league is a more complicated affair--it was neither the only women's organization in the political field nor an easy ally for South African feminism.

• | Author: Shireen Hassim
• | Publisher: Ohio University Press
• | Publication Date: Jan 12, 2015
• | Number of Pages: 160 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 0821421565
• | ISBN-13: 9780821421567