“Bantu women on the move” : black women and the politics of mobility in the Bantu World

dc.contributor.authorMasola, Athambile
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-03T07:00:52Z
dc.date.available2019-10-03T07:00:52Z
dc.date.issued2018-05
dc.description.abstractFor the most part, the inter-war years in South Africa have been researched as the time when African nationalism and resistance developed. Many such studies analyse the work of African intellectuals (mostly men) in this period while the role of women has become a serious consideration since the 1980s. In her book, A World of their Own: A History of South African Women’s Education (2013), Meghan Healy-Clancy examines the role of education for black women from the 1800s as a way to study their experiences in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Her book raises questions about the less public nature of black women’s lives, such as family, marriage and education. This paper aims to enter this conversation by examining the mobility of black women through a selection of articles which appeared in The Bantu World during 1935. Mobility is understood as an intensely political expression of movement which is also part of the quotidian. The analysis of these articles argues for a more complex understanding of the lives of black women, one beyond the narrative of subjugated women who did not have access to mobility, freedom and agency.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractDie jare tussen die twee wereldoorloë in Suid-Afrika word meestal bestudeer as die tydperk waartydens Afrikanasionalisme en -weerstand ontwikkel het. Studies van hierdie tydperk het tot nou toe meestal gefokus op die werk van prominente (meerendeels manlike) intellektuele Afrikane; die rol wat vroue gespeel het, word sedert die 1980’s ’n ernstiger fokusarea. In haar boek, A World of their Own: A History of South African Women's Education (2013) ondersoek Meghan Healy-Clancy die rol wat opvoeding vanaf die 1800's vir swart vroue gespeel het, om swart vrouens van die laat-negentiende en vroeë twintigste eeue te bestudeer. Haar boek opper vrae omtrent die minder openbare aard van swart vroue se lewens, soos familie, die huwelik en opvoeding. Hierdie artikel bestudeer swart vroue se mobiliteit na aanleiding van artikels uit The Bantu World van 1935. Beweeglikheid word hier verstaan as 'n hoogs politieke uitdrukking van beweging, wat ook deel is van die alledaagse. Die analise van hierdie artikels pleit vir 'n meer ingewikkelde begrip van swart vroue se lewens, wat verder gaan as die narratief van onderworpe vroue sonder toegang tot mobiliteit, vryheid en mag.en_ZA
dc.description.departmentHumanities Educationen_ZA
dc.description.librarianam2019en_ZA
dc.description.urihttp://www.journals.co.za/ej/ejour_hist.htmlen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationA. Masola, “’Bantu women on the move’: Black women and the politics of identity in The Bantu World”, Historia, 63, 1, May 2018, pp 93-111. http://dx.DOI.org/ 10.17159/2309-8392/2018/v63n1a5.en_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0018-229X
dc.identifier.other10.17159/2309-8392/2018/v63n1a5
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2263/71557
dc.language.isoenen_ZA
dc.publisherHistorical Association of South Africaen_ZA
dc.rights© The Author(s). Published under a Creative Commons Attribution Licence.en_ZA
dc.subjectAfrican modernityen_ZA
dc.subjectBlack womenen_ZA
dc.subjectMobilityen_ZA
dc.subjectColonial educationen_ZA
dc.subjectAfrika-moderniteiten_ZA
dc.subjectBeweeglikheiden_ZA
dc.subjectSwart vroueen_ZA
dc.subjectKoloniale opvoedkundeen_ZA
dc.title“Bantu women on the move” : black women and the politics of mobility in the Bantu Worlden_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA

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