Since the 1600s, travelers, scientists, and doctors have claimed that “hermaphroditism” and intersex are disproportionately common among black South Africans. In Envisioning African Intersex Amanda ...Lock Swarr debunks this claim by interrogating contemporary intersex medicine and demonstrating its indivisibility from colonial ideologies and scientific racism. Tracing the history of racialized research that underpins medical and scientific premises of gendered bodies, Swarr analyzes decolonial actions by intersex South Africans from the 1990s to the present, centering the work of organizers such as Sally Gross, the first openly intersex activist in Africa and a global pioneer of intersex legislation. Swarr also explores African social media activism that advocates for intersex justice and challenges the mistreatment of South African Olympian Caster Semenya. Throughout, Swarr shows how activists displace doctors’ impositions to fashion self-representation. By unseating colonial visions of gender, intersex South Africans are actively disrupting medical violence, decolonizing gender binaries, and inciting policy changes.
All author royalties from Envisioning African Intersex will be donated to Intersex South Africa.
South African London studies literary responses to London by exiled and émigré South Africans between 1948 and 2005 and traces the role London played in the development of South African letters.
The ebook edition of this title is Open Access, thanks to Knowledge Unlatched funding, and freely available to read online. Gender Violence, the Law, and Society analyses and explores the historical ...and cultural roots of issues of gender-based and sexual violence in Japan, India and South Africa. Using a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary methods, this edited collection highlights the intersection of marginalized gender and sexual identities – such as raped women, gay men and women who are victims of commodified violence – and marginalized geographic areas.Taking a structured and holistic approach, the chapters authors break down issues across three levels: violence, state, and society. By exploring case studies from the three selected geographical areas, both the roots and effects and related organization and belief systems are explored in their relations to the issues of sexual and gendered violence. The chapters expose and consider the complexities and nuances in each country in terms of their varying cultural practices, their religious and caste systems, and racial disparities, whilst exploring and expanding the understanding of the concept of violence itself. Gender Violence, the Law, and Society takes an important step towards synthesizing area-specific issues and knowledge into a more comprehensive and global body of knowledge on the apparently universal appearances of forms of sexual and gendered violence.
Wayward Feeling asks what contemporary audio-visual
culture and aesthetic activisms might tell us about the affective
afterlives of historical injustice in post-rainbow South
Africa.
Marriages of Inconvenience: The politics of coalitions in South
Africa is a research-based volume that collates and interprets
lessons that South Africa should take to heart in managing
interparty ...coalitions. It draws from domestic experiences as well
as from case studies on the rest of the African continent and
generic instances further afield. Coalitions in various iterations
have been a part of the South African polity since the attainment
of democracy in 1994. This started, nationally, with a 'grand
coalition' in the form of a Government of National Unity as
mandated in the interim constitution. Coalitions have also found
expression in some of the country's provinces. After the
transition, multiparty governments were sustained at national and
provincial levels either as a matter of necessity due to election
outcomes or for other political considerations. At local government
level, coalitions have been relatively commonplace in South Africa
from the onset of democratically elected municipalities in 2000,
with many situations where no single party attained an absolute
majority. This gained prominence from 2016 when many metropolitan
governments and some large towns became sites of coalition
politics.
Marriages of Inconvenience: The politics of coalitions in
South Africa is a research-based volume that collates and
interprets lessons that South Africa should take to heart in
managing interparty coalitions. It draws from domestic experiences
as well as from case studies on the rest of the African continent
and generic instances further afield.
Coalitions in various iterations have been a part of the South
African polity since the attainment of democracy in 1994. This
started, nationally, with a 'grand coalition' in the form of a
Government of National Unity as mandated in the interim
constitution. Coalitions have also found expression in some of the
country's provinces. After the transition, multiparty governments
were sustained at national and provincial levels either as a matter
of necessity due to election outcomes or for other political
considerations.
At local government level, coalitions have been relatively
commonplace in South Africa from the onset of democratically
elected municipalities in 2000, with many situations where no
single party attained an absolute majority. This gained prominence
from 2016 when many metropolitan governments and some large towns
became sites of coalition politics.
This book explores the normalization of HIV and AIDS, reflecting upon the intended and unintended consequences of the multifarious “AIDS industry.”
The Normalization of the HIV and AIDS Epidemic in ...South Africa deals with the manner in which the HIV and AIDS epidemic has become such a well-known disease with such wide-ranging ramifications. With its focus on the “AIDS industry,” this book examines issues such as the framing of the HIV and AIDS epidemic in a manner that greatly fostered notions of stigmatization and moralization. This book looks at the complexities of dealing with the epidemic in contemporary South Africa, examining the difficulties of addressing the social aspects of a disease in the context of increased focus on technological quick-fix solutions. De Wet explores these issues thoroughly, looking at the social determinants of the spread of the disease as well as the configuration and the nature of the responses to it, and their increasing marginalization as factors to address in an era of increased biomedicalization and concomitant normalization.
This book will intrigue scholars and students of public health, global health care, medical sociology, and African Studies.
Growing Wild Jasmin Rindlisbacher, Alan Cohen
10/2020
eBook
Mary Elizabeth Barber (1818-1899), born in Britain, arrived in the Cape Colony in 1820 where she spent the rest of her life as a rolling stone, as she lived in and near Grahamstown, the diamond and ...gold fields, Pietermaritzburg, Malvern near Durban and on various farms in the eastern part of the Cape Colony. She has been perceived as 'the most advanced woman of her time', yet her legacy has attracted relatively little attention. She was the first woman ornithologist in South Africa, one of the first who propagated Darwin's theory of evolution, an early archaeologist, keen botanist and interested lepidopterist. In her scientific writing, she propagated a new gender order; positioned herself as a feminist avant la lettre without relying on difference models and at the same time made use of genuinely racist argumentation. This is the first publication of her edited scientific correspondence. The letters - transcribed by Alan Cohen, who has written a number of biographical articles on Barber and her brothers - are primarily addressed to the entomologist Roland Trimen, the director of the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew, London. Today, the letters are housed at the Royal Entomological Society in St Albans. This book also includes a critical introduction by historian Tanja Hammel who has published a number of articles and is about to publish a monograph on Mary Elizabeth Barber.
The book is a rare case study of the dynamics, processes and shifts around the creation and reading of one of the world’s major monuments, through all the processes of its design and making. The ...frieze which represents the Great Trek and Voortrekker occupation of South Africa (1835-52) is one of the largest of its kind. The key question is how, a century later, were eighteen years of Voortrekker memory transformed into a 92-metre marble frieze?
Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) policies have been a central pillar of attempts to overcome the economic legacy of apartheid. Yet, more than two decades into democracy, economic exclusion in South ...Africa still largely re?ects the fault-lines of the apartheid era. Current discourse often con?ates BEE with the so-called �tenderpreneurship� referred to in the title, namely the reliance of some emergent black capitalists on state patronage. Authors go beyond this notion to understand BEE�s role from a unique perspective. They trace the history of black entrepreneurship and how deliberate policies under colonialism and its apartheid variant sought to suppress this impulse. In the context of modern South Africa, authors interrogate the complex dynamics of class formation, economic empowerment and redress against the backdrop of broader macroeconomic policies. They examine questions relating to whether B-BBEE policies are informed by strategies to change the structure of the economy. These issues are explored against the backdrop of the experiences of other developing countries and their journeys of industrialisation. The relevant black empowerment experiences of countries such as the United States are also discussed. The authors identify policy and programmatic interventions to forge the non-racial future that the constitution enjoins South Africans to build.
