Public space in South Africa often feels overwhelmingly male-focused. Nevertheless, some municipa... more Public space in South Africa often feels overwhelmingly male-focused. Nevertheless, some municipalities, in the wake of post-apartheid transformation, have consciously attempted to commemorate women in the renaming that has taken place since 1994. In this article I examine some of these impulses, and their implication for the public commemoration of women in South Africa. I am interested in two aspects of this: how ideas about gender are represented in public memorialization (ideas about both masculinity and femininity); and how these ideas have changed, if at all, over the last twenty years. In order to do this I examine the phenomenon of memorialization via street names, in particular the street naming controversies that have erupted in key South African cities over roughly the last ten years.
Page 1. Kleio XXXI, 1999 Natasha Erlank: Christian missionaries and the Xhosa Re-examining initia... more Page 1. Kleio XXXI, 1999 Natasha Erlank: Christian missionaries and the Xhosa Re-examining initial encounters between Christian missionaries and the Xhosa, 1820-1850: the Scottish case Natasha Erlank Rand Afrikaans University ...
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law/Revue Femmes et Droit, 2012
Bringing together an international range of academics, Gender, Sexualities and Law provides a com... more Bringing together an international range of academics, Gender, Sexualities and Law provides a comprehensive interrogation of the range of contemporary issues both topical and controversial raised by the gendered character of law, legal discourse and institutions. The gendering ...
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the Cape Colonial government attempted to formalise Af... more Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the Cape Colonial government attempted to formalise African law and custom within its native territories. This process, particularly apparent in the Commission on Native Law and Custom (1878–1883), involved much discussion between colonial representatives and African men in the Eastern Cape about the origins, utility and worth of customs and practices such as
Public space in South Africa often feels overwhelmingly male-focused. Nevertheless, some municipa... more Public space in South Africa often feels overwhelmingly male-focused. Nevertheless, some municipalities, in the wake of post-apartheid transformation, have consciously attempted to commemorate women in the renaming that has taken place since 1994. In this article I examine some of these impulses, and their implication for the public commemoration of women in South Africa. I am interested in two aspects of this: how ideas about gender are represented in public memorialization (ideas about both masculinity and femininity); and how these ideas have changed, if at all, over the last twenty years. In order to do this I examine the phenomenon of memorialization via street names, in particular the street naming controversies that have erupted in key South African cities over roughly the last ten years.
Page 1. Kleio XXXI, 1999 Natasha Erlank: Christian missionaries and the Xhosa Re-examining initia... more Page 1. Kleio XXXI, 1999 Natasha Erlank: Christian missionaries and the Xhosa Re-examining initial encounters between Christian missionaries and the Xhosa, 1820-1850: the Scottish case Natasha Erlank Rand Afrikaans University ...
Canadian Journal of Women and the Law/Revue Femmes et Droit, 2012
Bringing together an international range of academics, Gender, Sexualities and Law provides a com... more Bringing together an international range of academics, Gender, Sexualities and Law provides a comprehensive interrogation of the range of contemporary issues both topical and controversial raised by the gendered character of law, legal discourse and institutions. The gendering ...
Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the Cape Colonial government attempted to formalise Af... more Towards the end of the nineteenth century, the Cape Colonial government attempted to formalise African law and custom within its native territories. This process, particularly apparent in the Commission on Native Law and Custom (1878–1883), involved much discussion between colonial representatives and African men in the Eastern Cape about the origins, utility and worth of customs and practices such as
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