ABSTRACT
This is the first collection of feminist critical essays by and about women in South Africa to appear outside of that country. Many of the pieces were written after February 1990, when President de Klerk lifted the ban on black political organizations. The recognition that a just society cannot be achieved without freedom from gender oppression as well as racial oppression informs these essays and has a direct bearing on the creation of a new society in South Africa.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |104 pages
Theory and Context
chapter |13 pages
French Feminism in a South African Frame?
Gayatri Spivak and the Problem of Representation in South African Feminism
part |236 pages
Reading, Writing, and Criticism
chapter |23 pages
The Space Between Frames
A New Discursive Practice in Ellen Kuzwayo's Call Me Woman
chapter |14 pages
The South African Literary Establishment and the Textual Production of ‘Woman'
J.M. Coetzee and Lewis Nkosi
