The ANC Women's League By Shireen Hassim 9780821421567 (Paperback)

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Political structure & processe

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Wordery

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Ohio university press

The ANC Women's League : Ohio University Press : 9780821421567 : 0821421565 : 12 Jan 2015 : 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.

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