Generation, Gender and Negotiating Custom in South Africa (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Moore, Elena

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates how customary practices in South Africa have led to negotiation and contestation over human rights, gender, and generational power. It will be of interest to researchers across the fields of sociology, family/customary law, gender, social policy, and African Studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Juni 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000600216
• Artikelnr.: 63907732

Autorenporträt

Elena Moore is Associate Professor in the University of Cape Town's sociology department, South Africa.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Generation, gender and negotiating custom in South Africa (Elena Moore) 2. Lobolo and the making of men (Refiloe Makama) 3. Very long engagements: The persistent authority of bridewealth in a post-apartheid South African community (Michael W. Yarbrough) 4. Inhlawulo, Kin and Custom: Young men negotiating fatherhood and respectable masculinity (Deevia Bhana and Francesca Salvi) 5. Negotiating sisterarchy within polygynous marriages (Zamambo Mkhize) 6. Women's historical recollections of familial power, ukuthwala marriage and sexual violence (Nyasha Karimakwenda) 7. The power of state law: Female initiation, consent and generational entanglements (Elena Moore and Chuma Himonga) 8. Negotiation of inheritance rights by widows: A case study in rural South Africa (Fatima Osman) 9. Resisting for one and all: Gender and generations amidst guns in rural KwaZulu-Natal (Sindiso Mnisi Weeks) Glossary and Notes