A key mechanism of apartheid in South Africa was the set of restrictions placed on the movements of Africans; in particular, African women were subject to lives of daily surveillance and highly regulated housing, employment and mobility. Here Lee explores the lives and testimonies of three generations of African women in Cape Town during the apartheid (1948-94) and post-apartheid periods. Through life histories and a wealth of evidence, Lee considers how African women differently experienced apartheid, offering an intimate account of their attempts to locate 'home' in the urban setting. 304pp, UK. I B TAURIS.

Description of the patterns of change in rural women’s reproductive behaviour in South Africa over a period of 17 years, from 1987 to 2004. The research were informed by several key considerations: the 1994 International Cairo Conference on Population and Development; the introduction of South Africa’s National Family Planning Programme in 1975, which advanced the health rationale for fertility regulation; the introduction of the Population Development Programme in 1985, which emphasized the demographic rationale for fertility regulation; and, the passage of the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act in 1997, which legalized pregnancy terminations under prescribed conditions, with emphasis on women’s rights to choice. 136pp, ETHIOPIA. OSSREA.

Attempts to provide answers to some of the most difficult questions about fatherhood in South Africa: who is a father? What does it mean to be a father? Is it important for fathers to do more for children in a world that assumes that mothers take the primary parenting role? Do different people understand fatherhood in different ways? What evidence is there of new fatherhood styles emerging in South Africa? Authors from a range of backgrounds and disciplines break new ground as they explore the centrality of fatherhood in the lives of men and in the experi-ences of children. 326pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL.

Testaments to growing up gay and lesbian in South Africa. 80pp, SOUTH AFRICA. NEW AFRICA EDUCATION.

Study of the gendered aspects of bearing witness in South Africa during the truth commissions. Index, refs, notes, app, gloss, 206pp, UK. PLUTO PRESS.

This national gender profile describes South Africa’s progress and challenges in achieving women’s empowerment and gender equality goals. It measures the South African government's achievements against its stated commitments both within its supreme legislation - the Constitution, its policies, the legislative framework it has put in place, as well as the international agreements it is party to. It also assesses the impact of the institutional mechanisms for women’s advancement that South Africa has put in place since 1994. 116pp, ZIMBABWE. SOUTHERN AFRICAN RESEARCH & DOCUMENTATION CENTRE.

Conscious of her constitutional rights as an urban young lesbian in a time of a relentless spate of hate crimes against township lesbians, Nkunzi is simultaneously sensitive to the demands of the guiding ancestral voice of the traditional, rural Zulu patriarch whose name she bears. Her quest is for a middle path of balance and integration between the living and the dead, the traditional and the modern. Gloss, b/w & col photos, 162pp, SOUTH AFRICA. FANELE.

POWA called for entries in three categories: poetry, short stories and personal essays that describe the transformation of the flight from violence into a journey of healing. These short-listed contributions, reveal a textured emotional picture of the highs and lows, and the inconsis-tencies of the struggle by South African women who have suffered domestic violence. 136pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Written by a talented and diverse group of South African women, this collection conveys love in its various forms: romantic love, love of family, love of friends, and love of community, all of which have the power to transform, like revolution, in ways never imagined. Candid and touching, it bares the personal accounts of abuse and survival experienced by the contributors through poetry, short stories, and essays. As it celebrates creative writing as a healing tool, this record gives the women of South Africa a voice. 144pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

This, the fifth highly successful annual POWA Breaking the Silence collection, contains the three categories of poetry, short stories and personal essays. They describe the experience of living a life that defies prescribed boundaries, a life that deliberately, or as a consequence of survival, transgresses society’s defined norms. 144pp, SOUTH AFRICA. FANELE.

Distancing itself from biological explanations of male behaviour, this study demonstrates that dominant interpretations of masculinity still sanction violence against women, gays, younger men and those belonging to other racial and ethnic groups. But it also shows that men are vulnerable, and that they are increasingly contributing to more equitable gender relations. B/w illus, notes, bib, index, xv, 356pp, UK. ZED BOOKS.

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Memoir telling the story of Nomfusi Vinah Kedama who, as a young Xhosa schoolgirl, has her dream of becoming a teacher shattered when a handsome young man takes her for his wife. In a world where traditions hold sway, Nomfusi struggles to come to adjust to her new role as a wife, daughter-in-law and mother. When her husband starts cheating on her, she realises that her destiny lies beyond the family home of her in-laws. But escaping the shackles of her marriage means imprisonment of a different kind for Nomfusi; the growing town of Somerset West is a hostile place for any black person without a working or living permit. Gloss, 201pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

New in paperback. Sexual identity has emerged within the national discourse of post-apartheid South Africa, bringing the subject of rights and the question of gender relations and cultural authenticity into the focus of the nation states politics. While in 1996, South Africa became the first country in the world that explicitly incorporated lesbian and gay rights within a Bill of Rights, much of the country has continued to see homosexuality as un-African. Henriette Gunkel examines how colonialism and apartheid have historically shaped constructions of gender and sexuality and how these concepts have not only been re-introduced and shaped by understandings of homosexuality as un-African but also by the post-apartheid constitution and continued discourse within the nation. 182pp, UK. ROUTLEDGE.

Representing the work of some of the best-known theorists and researchers in masculinities and feminism in South Africa, this is a collection of papers presented at the 'From Boys to Men' conference held in January 2005. Based on ethnographic studies in South Africa and elsewhere in the continent, this collection addresses the argument that because South African feminine studies are fraught with problems, boys and men should be included in all research and intervention work studying gender equality and transformation. Chapters examine several issues of the African male psyche, such as varying identifiers of manhood, teenage masculinity, paternal responsibility, and the impact of HIV/AIDS in the region. 296pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN PRESS.

An analysis and historical overview of gay language, Gayle in South Africa. Written by an African linguist, it looks at the development of Gayle and its functions in society. Includes a dictionary of the words used. Bib, notes, 108pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Feminist lawyers have long been engaged in critiquing the gendered nature of South African law. This project has increased in importance and scope as a result of the centrality of gender equality, as a value and a substantive right, in the South African Constitution. This study provides both theoretical and practical tools to enable academic and practising lawyers to apply concepts of gender equality to the law. It introduces readers to basic feminist concepts and arguments, and to a wealth of South African, comparative and international material on gender and the law. 496pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JUTA PUBLISHERS.

Aims to expose, through personal narratives, racist and sexist practices that still suffuse the institutional culture of South African universities, despite their public pronouncements about their commitments to 'diversity' and 'transformation'. Secondly, tries to apply the alternative theoretical and methodological frameworks of black feminist thought and womanism to analysis of the politics of teaching and research in the South African academy. Index, 120pp, SOUTH AFRICA . UNISA PRESS.

The first known collection of South African Muslim stories relating to Islam and sexual diversity. This anthology shares real-life stories of people that have struggled, or may still be struggling, to reconcile their spirituality and their sexuality. These are stories that illustrate the oneness of being and reflect on how some interpretations of the scriptures may alienate others. 224pp, SOUTH AFRICA. AFRICAN MINDS.

Analyses ten years of South Africa's government budgets from a gender perspective. It considers the budgets of four government departments - Labour, Social Development, Justice and Constitutional Development, and Safety and Security - assessing the role each department has played in implementing gender equality during the first ten years of post-apartheid democracy. Questions addressed are: whether policies are gender-sensitive; whether sufficient budgets are allocated to implement gender-sensitive policies; whether expenditure is made as planned; and the impacts of such policies in promoting gender equality. 94pp, SOUTH AFRICA. IDASA.

Penetrates to the heart of grief - the loss of Ndlovu's third child, who was stillborn. The book breaks the silence around stillbirth, often seen as a non-event, something women are expected to get over as soon as possible. It is placed in the wider South African context by Sue Fawcus, who writes tenderly and expertly about stillbirth from the point of view of an obstetrician, and by Zubeida Bassadien and Muriel Johnstone, social workers who accompany women going through this shattering experience. 90pp, SOUTH AFRICA. MODJAJI BOOKS.

First anthology of its kind from South Africa, this is a collection of diverse stories, poems and personal histories, reflecting the range of experiences of gay life. 214pp, UK. THE GAY MEN'S PRESS.

By turns harrowing, hilarious, shocking, brave and deeply poignant, these 28 stories include not only the remarkable stories of women, including a rural midwife, a Rwandan refugee and a surrogate mother, but also contributions by men, who write movingly from the margins. A predominantly literary collection, with contributions by established writers of various cultural backgrounds, it provides a platform for vibrant new South African voices. 204pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

Series of 75 portraits of famous South African women who are inspirational icons and role models. Alongside each portrait is a thousand-word essay based on interviews in which the women relate their stories, experiences and insigghts. Subjects include: Albertina Sisulu, Antjie Krog, Mamphela Ramphele, Gcina Mhlophe, Ellen Khuzwayo, Helen Suzman and Cheryl Carolus. 272pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DOUBLE STOREY BOOKS.

In some parts of South Africa, more than one in three people are HIV positive. This book explores transformations in notions of gender and intimacy to try to understand the roots of this virulent epidemic. By living in an informal settlement and collecting love letters, cell phone text messages, oral histories, and archival materials, Mark Hunter details the everyday social inequalities that have resulted in untimely deaths. Hunter shows how first apartheid and then chronic unemployment have become entangled with ideas about femininity, masculinity, love, and sex and have created an economy of exchange that perpetuates the transmission of HIV/AIDS. 324pp, USA. INDIANA UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Recent years have seen a growing world-wide concern about men and boys. Do boys have appropriate role models at home? Are girls outperforming boys at school? Is men's health under undue pressure? The nature of masculinity has been brought into question by a radical reorganisation of gender relations, which some see as a crisis in masculinity. South Africa has made a rapid transformation from a male-dominated patriarchal society to a new social order based on ideals of equality between men and women. How do men achieve successful masculinity in this new context? These are some of the questions that are explored in this book by leading researchers in the field. Index, 236pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DOUBLE STOREY BOOKS.

A lively and readable account of gay and lesbian lives. The book is personalised by viewing the situation in each country of the subcontinent through the eyes of gays and lesbians: their stories are used to sketch the broader experience of the gay and lesbian communities. Fascinating vignettes of gay life emerge - for example, an account of what life was like for one of the few openly gay political prisoners on Robben Island. The chapters on Zambia, Swaziland, Botswana and Lesotho are interesting as little has been written about gay life in these countries. 190pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DAVID PHILIP.

Documents the work and thinking of Feminist Alternatives, a group of feminist activists working for meaningful alternatives to leadership and power and for real social transformation where women, and all people, can be free to realise their full potential and humanity. From differing vantage points within struggle, it offers a critique of women's position in South Africa today and gives new meaning to women's knowledge, analysis, vision and actions for change. 288pp, UK. PAMBAZUKA.

An edited volume of correspondence between three South African women brought together by their passion for education: Lily Moya, a Transkei schoolgirl, Mabel Palmer, an elderly white academic, and Sibusisiwe Makhanya, a Zulu woman and a pioneer social worker. A classic study of mission education, white liberalism, the socialisation of black girls and the dilemmas they confront. Index, b/w photographs, maps, 217pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU NATAL PRESS.

A collection of essays exploring the reshaping and reconfiguring of gay sexualities in South Africa since 1994. Index, 368pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

History of South Africa's gay pride marches and parades over the last 16 years. It brings together a host of valuable and rare material: pictures, documents and personal testimony of activists, organizers and participants of Pride since 1990. 172pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

The desired and the desirable are often constellated through our ideas of what is undesired and undesirable, deeply knotted into our sense of self, our sense of where and how we fit into the world. These notions of desire form the backdrop to this powerful volume which examines the historical continuities and interruptions of heteronormativity in South African society. 432pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL.

On 1 April 1999 multi-award winning journalist Charlene Smith was raped at knifepoint in her Johannesburg home. Showing amazing courage, she decided to speak out and her first moving article about her rape and possible HIV infection was published just a week after the ordeal. So began a revolutionary campaign giving her a platform from which she has challenged traditional thinking on sexual violence, women's liberation, trauma management and HIV/AIDS. Partial bibliography, 331pp, SA. PENGUIN BOOKS SOUTH AFRICA.

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Offering a firsthand look at the sex trade in South Africa, these memoirs tell the story of Margaret (a.k.a. Rachel), who becomes a prostitute at 38 in order to lift her family from poverty. She endures long, bruising nights and abusive men but finds solace in laughter and peanut butter sandwiches with the girls. This sobering tale is told with a wicked wit and remarkable depth that gives readers a rare glimpse into a world that is often treated with scorn and misunderstanding by society. 248pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

Within the context of the broad social and political processes affecting women at the time, the study examines some of the local social and political forces that informed women's lives in the Western Cape. The women's narratives provide nuanced insights into how issues of identity, race, class and culture intersected with politics in their lives, and demonstrate the sometimes painful intersections of the public and personal realms. 328pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL.

From new technologies that can 'transform' gender, to new forms of pornography, freedom of sexual orientation, the creation of shopping malls, attempts to understand reproductive choices, restorative justice as response to sexual violence, women's testimonies, and women's mobility - all attempts are still hindered by conventional frameworks, structures and thought. A central call that emerges from all the contributions is one for more theory and more gender sensitive research and more listening to previously silenced voices. Index, bib, b/w illus, 203pp, SOUTH AFRICA. PRETORIA UNIVERSITY LAW PRESS.

Tells how South Africa came to lead the world in enshrining sexual equality in its Bill of Rights, which forms part of the Constitution. The achievement, which has been hailed as a model for the rest of the world, did not come about without a long struggle. This was spearheaded by gender activists and movements during the 1980s, whose campaigns on the one hand evoked hostility from the apartheid state and were also dismissed as an irrelevance by conservative factions within the liberation movement. Indeed, the end of apartheid did not automatically guarantee that sexual equality would be realised, and the book explains how in the end this was achieved. Includes contributions from Thabo Mbeki and Peter Tatchell. Index, resource guide, 255pp, SOUTH AFRICA. DOUBLE STOREY BOOKS.

The stories collected here record the lives of Indian women from Hindu, Muslim and Christian backgrounds living in the Pietermaritzburg area of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and they demonstrate the pride these women have in their ancient cultures as well as their strength and determination in adversity. 260pp, SOUTH AFRICA. WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Sponsored by the Centre for the Study of Violence and Reconciliation and endorsed by the Human Rights Foundation, this manual examines various aspects of domestic violence and its particular prevalence in South Africa. Notes, 214pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

An account of the lives of a cross section of South African women who were unrelenting in their search for justice during the days of apartheid, and their roles in the new South Africa. The author, a journalist in East London during the early seventies, presents the lives of Elsa Joubert, Ela Gandhi, Annette Cockburn, Patricia Matolengwe, Patricia de Lille, Ivy Gcina and Val Viljoen amongst others. Index, viii, 339pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

Explores the hidden world of dockside prostitution in Cape Town and Durban, focusing on the local women (and men) who offer sexual recreation to foreign sailors for the sake of making a living. It shows how the dockside sex trade is different from other more visible sectors (like streetwalking and brothels), explores the strategies by which the women solicit the seamen, examines the cultural dimensions of dockside relations, and reveals a world that is both mundane in its logic yet utterly distant from mainstream society. Index, bib, gloss, 242pp, SOUTH AFRICA. JACANA MEDIA.

This collection of portraits of women at the Cape brings to life some extraordinary personalities from the early days of the settlement. Cape Town was a wild frontier town, attracting the most desperate, hopeful and intrepid adventurers from the Old World who both clashed and mingled with the local people. Includes familiar figures such as the Khoekhoe Krotoa and her mistress, Maria de Queilleirie, as well as lesser known characters: Maria Mouton, who had an affair with her slave and suffered terrible punishment; the shadowy Nicola Six, the power behind Simon van der Stel's throne; the remarkable slave Angela of Bengal, who escaped the hell of slavery and entered into society. Bib, b/w illus, maps, 126pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

Provides a fresh and in-depth portrait of impoverished young South African men who became fathers while teenagers. It provides space for their articulate and impassioned voices to be heard amidst the outcry against the absence of fathers, and offers insights into young fathers' personal, emotional, financial and cultural struggles as they come to terms with fatherhood. 136pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL.

Study of black and coloured women's experiences in the cannery, food, clothing and textile industries in South Africa, detailing women's changing place in both formal and casual work and the complex relationship between race and gender in the trade unions and in the factories. Index, 368pp, UK. JAMES CURREY PUBLISHERS.

On the 30th November 2006, South Africa became the world's fifth country and Africa's first to legalize marriage for same-sex couples. This collection of interviews, essays and documents recognizes the multiplicity of viewpoints on the topic, as well as the multiple aspects and efforts that shaped the making of same-sex marriage in South Africa. It seeks to represent those perspectives by drawing on the opinions of a wide range of experts as well as representing those for whom the right to marry holds the most meaning - the people whose marriages can now be legally recognized. Index, b/w col photos, 354pp, SOUTH AFRICA. FANELE.

Narratives which detail the constant challenges of living in a country, that, despite its progressive Constitution, is still host to myriad prejudices and misunderstandings when it comes to trans people. With more than twenty original voices from the trans community in South Africa. The contributors who 'transitioned, are transitioning or will transition', have all been actively involved in the process of making the book and have a great deal to say about their personal experiences of being transgender today. 220pp, SOUTH AFRICA. FANELE.

A new analysis of citizenship looking at South Africa and its rights based system of democracy and gender in a local/global world. 281pp, UK. ASHGATE PUBLISHERS.

Based on a national survey of 1000 women, this book examines the nature and forms of abuse against women in South African society, provision of services to survivors, and policy implications. Apps, endnotes, refs, tables, figs, graphs, xviii, 169pp, SOUTH AFRICA. INSTITUTE FOR SECURITY STUDIES

Examines the changes in people's lives engendered by social and technological advances, and urges society to find new and expanded roles for women. xvii, 117pp, USA. DOVER.

A compilation of 20 special radio programmes, broadcast in June 2002 to celebrate 50 years and 13 000 shows of the Woman's World in South Africa. These edited transcriptions trace a narrative of the treads of South African Women's history over half a century of the country's history. Foreword by Helen Suzman. 232pp, SOUTH AFRICA. KWELA BOOKS.

Celebrates the 50th anniversary of the 1956 women's march on the Union Buildings. It provides a dramatic and unprecedented showcase of photographic talent, from the early pioneers of social documentary, including Anne Fischer and Constance Stuart Larrabee, to the challenging images created by women in South Africa today. As the struggle against apartheid gained momentum in the 70s and 80s, women photographers recorded the drama unfolding across the land. More recently, women have begun exploring a different aesthetic and developing a wide range of photographic practices in the worlds of fashion, journalism, documentary and advertising. 272pp, SOUTH AFRICA. WITWATERSRAND UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Collection, full of different textures, narratives and nuances, sixteen authors have begun to tackle the task of writing South Africa's history from an overtly feminist perspective, opening debates about real women's power. Considers the major themes of South African history from the pre-colonial era to the present, offering: a complete revision of the stories of Sarah Bartman and Xhosa prophetess Nongquawse; a unique insight into the lives of slave women; the role of women in the early frontier wars; women's political struggles in the twentieth century; and on into the present with essays that deal with women's agency and current forms of protest and self representation. 536pp, SOUTH AFRICA. HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL.

Story of liberation, showing how women achieved electoral success, learned to work with lifelong enemies, and began to transform Parliament by creating more space for women's voices during a critical time in the life of their democracy. Arguing from her detailed analysis of the strategies and political tactics used by these South African women, both individually and collectively, Hannah Britton contends that, contrary claims in earlier studies of the developing world, mobilization by women prior to a transition to democracy can lead to gains after the transition, including improvements in constitutional mandates, party politics, and representation. Index, bib, notes, 198pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS.

Ccaptures South African women's stories of collective activism and social change at a crucial point for the future of democracy in the country, if not the continent. Pulling together the voices of activists and scholars, South Africa's path to democracy and the assurance of gender rights emerge as a complex journey of both successes and challenges. 320pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNIVERSITY OF KWAZULU-NATAL PRESS.

The transition to democracy in South Africa was one of the defining events in twentieth-century political history. The South African women's movement is one of the most celebrated on the African continent. Shireen Hassim examines interactions between the two as she explores the gendered nature of liberation and regime change. Her work reveals how women's political organizations both shaped, and were shaped by the broader democratic movement. Alternately asserting their political independence and giving precedence to the democratic movement as a whole, women activists proved flexible and remarkably successful in influencing policy. At the same time, their feminism was profoundly shaped by the context of democratic and nationalist ideologies. 370pp, USA. UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS.

Explores the impact of patriarchy on women in past and present societies. Covers women in pagan and Christian Antiquity; the representation of women in literature and advertising; the economic role of black women in rural South Africa; religious 'piety books' written by women; women in trade unions and in hospitals, and how women are achieving self-upliftment in the face of numerous obstacles. Bib, v, 257pp, SOUTH AFRICA. UNISA PRESS.

A conversation among South African and American women about the challenge of building a new society from the ashes of apartheid-era South Africa. These stories bring to life the spirited debates among activists and academics; radicals and reformists; politicians and spin doctors; and artists and musicians - over how to transform South Africa's newly democratised society for greater social and economic justice. B/w photos, 156pp, USA. AFRICA WORLD PRESS.

Zanele Muholi's photography offers the chance to journey across boundaries, to think differently about blackness, female forms, skins, bodies and sexualities in a way that is unprecedented in South Africa. Her images offer frank and intimate portrayals of black lesbian lives, the scars of hate crimes, the bonds between lovers, the complex life lines of women living on the margins. Colour and black and white photographs. 96pp, SOUTH AFRICA. STE PUBLISHERS. EXPLICIT CONTENT.