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Sitting Pretty: White Afrikaans Women in Postapartheid South Africa
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At the opening of South Africa's first democratic parliament in 1994, newly elected president Nelson Mandela issued a clarion call to an unlikely group: white Afrikaans women who, during apartheid, occupied the ambivalent position of being both oppressor and oppressed. He conjured the memory of poet Ingrid Jonker as 'both an Afrikaner and an African' who 'instructs that ou
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Paperback, 250 pages
Published
January 1st 2018
by University Of KwaZulu-Natal Press
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The first time I heard about van der Westhuizen was on 702 Talk Radio. She was being interviewed by Eusebius McKaiser on her research that resulted in this book. Being a white Afrikaans woman in postapartheid South Africa myself, my interest was piqued. I ordered the book online that same day.
I would love to say that I tore through this book in days but the reality is that it took me about 3 months of reading on and off. This is a thesis research paper that should not be read through quickly. It ...more
I would love to say that I tore through this book in days but the reality is that it took me about 3 months of reading on and off. This is a thesis research paper that should not be read through quickly. It ...more
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