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Respectable mothers, tough men and good daughters : producing persons in Manenberg township South Africa /
The book examines how men and women in Manenberg township, on Cape Town's inner periphery, manoeuvre to re-define themselves as gendered persons deserving of dignity, through the quotidian practices of ordentlikheid or respectability. Salo shows how reclamation of dignity is an intergenerationa...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bamenda, North West Region, Cameroon :
Langaa RPCIG,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Praise for Elain Salo and for this Book; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; Sophie Oldfield. African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town; Desiree Lewis. Women's and Gender Studies, University of the Western Cape; Chapter 1
- Manenberg
- An In-between Place with In-between People; A. Introduction; B. Autobiography and the research context: On being the 'native' anthropologist; C. Negotiating access to Manenberg; D. Learning about mothering in Manenberg; E. The theoretical debates about structure and agency in contemporary anthropology.
- F. Power, agency and structureG. Personhood, agency and power; H. Personhood and agency in the context of a South African township; Chapter 2
- Making Race, Making Space: Locating Coloureds in South African History and Urban Planning; A. Discourse and debate about race on the margins; B. Coloured in relation to which other? Depends on where you're coming from; C. Segregation and apartheid: the makings of the racially exclusive nation; D. Unifying white identity: the era of segregation; E. Making nations: Apartheid's imagined communities.
- F. Racial stratification and urban space in Cape Town, 1800s-1980sG. Manenberg and the racial ideology of apartheid after 1950; Chapter 3
- Clearing the Wilderness: Defining Identity from Within; A. Coming to Manenberg: Erased histories and displaced persons; B. The loss of personhood and identity; C. Peopling Manenberg: Stories of arrival; D. Clearing the social and natural wilderness: Defining colouredness in the new place; E. Defining identity from within the local spaces: A view from the periphery within.
- F. Thirty years after the move: The economic and cultural aspects of identity in the local contextG. The economic capital of local identity; H. The spatial and temporal capital of identity: defining local communities; Chapter 4
- Making Mothers, Producing Persons: The Gendered Ideology of Orality and Space in the Local Community; A. Gendering housing and welfare access, gendering household formation; B. Making moeder s: A daughter's rite of passage into adult womanhood; C. Policing the moral career: Maintaining respectable mothers.
- D. Ordentlikheid : the ideological scaffolding of the moral economyE. Graciousness under fire: Stoic mothers encounter the state; F. The masks of respectability: Managing the suffering from within; G. Judging and mothering persons in the community; H. Conclusion; Chapter 5
- Mans is ma soe: Men, Moeders and Ideologies of Masculinity; A. Strong bones: Making a coloured man.; B. Teaching toughness: Preparing boys for manhood; C. Becoming men through the moeders; D. Gendering boundaries, gendering persons: A lesson in defining community; E. Making 'n Ou : Gangs' rites of passage.